Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans

Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans is a direct-to-video animated superhero film, and a crossover between the television series Teen Titans Go! and the original Teen Titans, both of which are adapted from the DC Comics superhero team of the same name. It is also a direct to video sequel to Teen Titans Go! To the Movies. Warner Bros. announced that a crossover featuring the Titans from both series was in the works. The film premiered at the San Diego Comic-Con on July 21, 2019, followed by a digital release on September 24, 2019, then followed by a DVD and Blu-ray release on October 15, 2019. The events of the film take place during the fifth season of Teen Titans Go! and after the finale of the fifth season of Teen Titans. The film premiered on television on Cartoon Network on February 17, 2020.

Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans
The show may have started to show signs of getting better after the first movie, but this ruined any chances, realizing that we have been ripped off this whole ENTIRE time and made me want to GO away instead.
Genre: Action Crossover Superhero Comedy Directed by: Jeff Mednikow Written by: Marly Halpern-Graser Jeremy Adams Based on: Teen Titans by Glen Murakami and Sam Register Teen Titans Go! by Micheal Jelenic and Aaron Horvath Starring: Scott Menville Hyden Walch Tara Strong Greg Cipes Khary Payton Kevin Michael Richardson Rhys Darby Distributed by: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Release date: July 21, 2019 (San Diego Comic-Con International) September 24, 2019 (United States) Runtime: 77 minutes Country: United States Language: English Franchise: Teen Titans Teen Titans Go! Prequel: Teen Titans Go! To the Movies Sequel: Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam

Plot

The film, much like the previous Teen Titans Go! film, serves as something of a meta-commentary on the entertainment industry. Where To the Movies talked about Super Hero Film culture, this film discusses crossover culture.

The actual plot revolves around a new antagonist who rallies the 2003 and 2013 Titans and forces them to battle each other to prove which team is superior. Only for the competition to be hijacked by the 2003 and 2013 renditions of Trigon, who reveal that they were responsible for the entire thing. When both plunge the Teen Titans multiverse into chaos and kidnap both Ravens, the two teams are forced to put their differences aside to save their respective Raven and defeat the two Trigons before they cause cataclysmic damage not just to their own universes, but to the universes of every incarnation of the Teen Titans.

Bad Qualities That Need to GO! Away

1. This movie is sadly a horrible way to bring back the original series. They said we'd get a sixth season of the original series if the first movie did well, and they even added a teaser at the end of the 2018 film saying the original series would be returning. Here we are now and this was their return?
   • This means that just when we thought we'd actually be getting a season six of the original, we have been ripped off and screwed over by the writers and creators of Teen Titans Go! even more, proving why people hate Teen Titans Go!, and it even made the first movie now completely unnecessary from its existence and all a cash grab/joke the entire time.
2. This movie actually made the original Teen Titans characters incredibly unlikable. They turned the originals into obnoxious, pushy, and overbearing, older siblings who act like complete and utter jerks, believing they are better than their Go! counterparts, when nowadays, neither one of them were any better in this movie. This makes everyone (not only us) not want the original series brought back after this.
   • All of this failed to prove how Teen Titans Go! is supposed to be "different from the original".
   • All of this really showed DC Nation does not care about their fans or even the criticism they get in general.
   • The worst thing is that this movie happened all because the crew who worked on the original actually liked Teen Titans Go!, and they're actually cool with this, which makes fans and even everyone that loved the original series lose all of their faith in the original 2003 series because of this.
   • The GO! Titans aren’t any better either. In fact, GO’s Raven is incredibly unlikable in this movie, because this is really rare to see GO’s Raven either be unlikable or despicable, even in the terrible reboot where everyone’s GO counterparts in the show practically lost all forms of likability in them. In fact, this movie takes the flanderization of her character up to eleven.
3. The way that the original Titans, and OG Trigon, were animated were so uncreative and choppy.
4. This movie rehashes Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse by using the multiverse plot without doing anything special or new done to its original concept.
   • They even used so many versions of the Titans, even most of them are Teen Titans Go! based.
   • One question: What was even the point of using a concept plot without doing anything that much new?
   • Some designs that were previously in the series such as the Cartoon Universe and the Zombie Universe are recycled.
5. The humor is even worse than before.
   • For one, in the beginning, there was this one overly long scene in the beginning where Starfire feeds Silkie.
   • They literally joke about Hexagon having two butts.
6. The writing is absolutely horrible and even worse and worse than the Teen Titans Go! series itself.
7. The voice acting is just wasted talent despite sounding decent and mostly having the same voice cast as before.
8. The idea that they need to work together is so useless it held no impact on the story whatsoever.
9. The rap battle just proves how bad of an idea all of it is and was.
   • Also, the rapping is cringeworthy and unnecessary.
   • That Worlogog song was so annoying, it felt like the Waffles song all over again, except even more painful.
10. "Weird Al" Yankovic once again wastes his talent in this as the Gentleman Ghost and Darkseid, and that sadly shows they used Weird Al for talent wasting sake and nothing else.
11. The ending where all of the Go! Titans ignore all the danger that happens made the movie look even worse and is only made as the very last and final middle finger to everyone watching the movie itself. What the actual heck was all that about!?
    • This ending, not just the movie in general, really shows that the writers and creators of Teen Titans Go! are desperate for everybody's attention.
    • This ending really shows this reboot will tell you once again that it could do anything it can do to get Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. a run for both companies money, and try desperately everything else they can to get more and more ratings on TV and throw in more juvenile and unfunny humor to really get out cheap laughs out of their own audience.
12. It makes no sense how the writers of the film brought back the original Trigon, so even the original Trigon feels pointless here.
13. It's just the your typical Teen Titans Go! crossover than an actual movie it claims to be.
    • Not only that, this feels like a feature-length episode of the TV show.
14. The scary designs of the zombie Teen Titans from "Salty Codgers" return when Trigon is sent to the zombie dimension, yet even worse than before.
    • SPOILER ALERT!: This isn't even the last time Teen Titans Go! To the Movies would receive a sequel film where it's a crossover, as this film was followed up with Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam, whose only purpose was to promote Space Jam: A New Legacy in a really bad way.
    • Oh, and that fourth film failed too.

Good Qualities That Are "The" Redeeming

1. The animation is decent at best.
   • Even though their Original counterpart designs are bland but very decent and awesome.
   • The scene involving "You Ruined My Childhood!" was pretty funny, but even that's not enough to save this movie. Just because the Teen Titans Go! acknowledges criticism doesn't mean it takes criticism, because it's known for not taking criticism.
2. The title does sound like we would've want to see the original Titans win.
3. The intro is pretty cool.
4. The soundtrack can be catchy.
5. The line by that man watching the battle "You ruined my childhood" (despite making fun of haters) is a bit funny.
6. It may be at times amazing to see a modern cartoon character's counterpart meet their classic counterparts for the first time, despite the 2003 counterparts being bigger than the TTG versions of them since the Go! versions of the Titans look too young for teenagers.
7. It may explain what happened to the 2003 Teen Titans who people have not seen them in a really longest time since Trouble In Tokyo.
8. The Titans share their voices with their 2003 versions because of how the two different designs of the Titans sound in both shows due to the fact that the cast played both versions of the Teen Titans that came from the original 2003 series and the 2013 Go! series.
9. The poster designs are shockingly good.
10. It is considered to be much better than the actual TTG series itself and the next movie.
    • For those who hate the actual TTG series itself, it could be one of the only things they like about Teen Titans Go! so far.
11. Some scenes have Starfire's hair color comparison from different shows, which actually compares that her hair is dark red in the 2003 series while her hair is hot pink in the 2013 series.
12. This so-called crossover movie can be enjoyable for fans of the original Teen Titans as well as long as they have their hatred on Teen Titans Go! by itself.
    • It's shorter than the previous movie.
13. Depending on the view, Original and GO! Counterparts are getting along is somewhat interesting, funny, and epic. Especially fighting between evil Santa Klaus and Mrs. Klaus/Megan.
14. The fight between all of the infinite earth Titans and Hexagon (the combination of OG Trigon and GO! Trigon) was pretty cool to see.

Reception

This film received positive reviews from critics while almost not well-received by fans of the original Teen Titans show due to its mass flanderization of the original Teen Titans. It holds a 6.9 IMDb rating

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