While this difference in tone may have been appealing to some moviegoers, Justice League was ultimately met with mixed critical reception, and its commercial performance was underwhelming, making only $657.7 million off a $300 million budget.
Although this video is calling back to a simpler time in superhero media, it is fitting that compared to director Zack Snyder’s previous DCEU entries, Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League had a lighter tone.
While part of that tonal shift was already planned for in the script, the shift was enhanced when Joss Whedon came aboard the movie, because while he was initially hired to write some scenes for the reshoots, he was later tasked with overseeing post-production after Snyder departed.