Andy Muschietti’s recent superhero flick “The Flash” hoped to lure in audiences with a sprawling story that spans several parallel universes.
It was the same approach taken by John Watts in “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and Sam Raimi in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” in that all three films assembled multiple versions of certain superhero characters culled from various extant movie franchises.
“The Flash” contains the Ben Affleck version of Batman as he appeared in Zack Snyder’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” as well as the Michael Keaton version of Batman as he appeared in Tim Burton’s 1989 film called merely “Batman.” The Flash, he finds, can run so fast that he can travel into alternate timelines. In the film’s climactic final scenes, the Flash — having time-traveled too much — unwittingly causes the fabric of reality to rip, allowing cameo appearances from a dozen…
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