Justice League' Scores Early Twitter Praise From Critics While Worried Fans Rejoice

The entertainment world and movie fandom waited with baited breath this morning, as the first social media reactions rolled in for Warner Bros.' superhero team-up movie Justice League. The initial reactions were primarily positive, including my own (but I'm not at liberty to write more about the film here, so watch for my full review early next week), with even most of the mixed social media posts declaring the entertainment value and fun of the film outweigh its flaws. There were of course a few negative reactions, but those were largely drowned out by the good reactions and the outpouring of DC fan relief.

After an extended production that saw multiple early rewrites and a last-minute change of directors, Justice League comes in the aftermath of decidedly mixed critical and mainstream audience reactions to many of the previous installments in Warner's attempts to build a shared cinematic world for their DC Comics stable of characters.

Man of Steel received majority-positive reviews when it released in 2013, but overall reactions were still mixed and it finished with a less-than-expected $668 million in theaters. Batman v Superman notoriously faced a wave of heated negative critical reception and luke-warm audience sentiment, although none of that prevented it from topping $873 million in global receipts. Suicide Squad, despite last-minute reworking to respond to some of the complaints about Batman v Superman, wound up with terrible reviews but still overperformed at the box office to the tune of $745 million.