If The Flash has anything going for it, it’s that it genuinely wants to be fun. It doesn’t always succeed at being that, and the film itself suffers a lot from the kind of shoddy visual effects and mercenary, nostalgia-bait decisions that seem to pervade the entire superhero genre now. Most of the best moments in The Flash are, in fact, the ones that seem the least concerned with the film’s place in the greater, soon-to-be-over DC Extended Universe.
