Agreed. Though I didn't think that the CGI for the cameos was any worse than most other recent attempts to bring back or de-age legacy characters (Tarkin, Leia, Luke, Indy) it still lacked the punch of say EG's portal scene where the real actors all got to appear. At least they were brief enough to not be embarrassing and Cage's extended bit where he got to fight the big spider was really awesome to see. Such a deep cut for modern audiences who'd have absolutely no clue as to why those bits were included or even what films those characters were from, lol.
Poor Brandon Routh.
Batfleck's antics with WW were very silly and even Whedon-esque but I still chuckled so I guess for me it worked, lol. Same with Barry's line when he touched the lasso, since when does it just make you randomly blurt things out like Jim Carrey in Liar Liar.
But again I laughed so for me no harm no foul.
I saw some people complaining earlier in the thread that the Batmobile was wasted because it just sits there while Barry takes a nap. I've always preferred the Batwing so I'm glad that that was the focus but I wonder how cool it might have been if they did find an excuse to give the car something to do. I wonder if audiences would have liked it if they had tweaked the Batwing (since they already redesigned it to accommodate multiple passengers) so that the Batmobile could drop out the bottom like the Battfleck bike did at the beginning of the movie. Then before it crashed in the final battle maybe Keaton pulls a lever and surprises everyone by dropping out of the bottom of the plane in the full car and then racing that around the battlefield. Hard to tell if that would have been epic or written off as too "fan-servicey" but in the end I really enjoyed the flow of the battle as it was.
Kudos to the writer and director (and Keaton himself) to have the wherewithal to not do anything divisive or
buffoonish with regard to his character. No bathing himself in green ***** milk, turning his back on people who needed him, getting defeated by locked doors or immediately face planting the Batwing in a giant pit while "searching for his armor," etc.