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I have read the Doomsday comic and although the new animated movie is a far cry from it I went in understanding that this movie was simply BASED on the comic and therefore didn’t go in expecting it to fully measure up to it.

The action sequences (fight scenes) were pretty good, many people are killed by Doomsday but it isn’t at all “graphic” in nature, it’s not as though you actually see see guts and what not. You see Doomsday pounding people, throwing people hard enough to kill them and one scene shows him picking up a person by the head and crushing him but they don’t actually show the guys head being crushed or anything like that.

If there was cursing in this film then I completely missed it, I saw when Lois wwent to Martha Kent’s home she used the word “freaking” but it’s a far cry from the actually “F” word itself. The voice acting was a bit dry (Lois “Anne Heche” reminded me of a female version of Captain Kirk of Star Trek) and the fact that she and Supes were an obvious couple for 6 months being intimate and she didn’t yet fully know that he was actually Clark Kent makes you kind of wonder why she’s a supposedly great reporter to begin with.

To me, this movie was simply a longer Superman The Animated Series episode with a little more “umph” to it and that’s all.

I give it a C grade as it was entertaining (not as great as the advertisements make it out to be) and i would definitely say that if a person is going to watch it thinking that it will be the same as the Doomsday comic then they are setting themselves up for dissapointment.

Oh well, gotta fly… up, up and away.

:P

The movie doesn’t advertise itself as a piece of art, which is what the critics here are looking for. It’s a kid’s movie, plain and simple. The PG 13 is just window dressing, don’t let it fool you.

The animation is great. Rewatch the sequence with Superman and Fo-Superman shooting heat vision at each other. Gigantic heat vision plasma storms!

Did you really expect the producers to condences the exact Death of Superman & Reign of Superman story in a 75 minuites? Please dont be silly… ofcourse there were going to be drastic changes.

Furthermore, in your review, you focus on unecessary petty details…E.g So what if we didnt see hundreds of bystanders die during the fight scenes. Does it really matter? Besides, we saw enough innocent bystanders die during Doomsday’s rampage.

Giving the movie an F is WAY too harsh.

Your review sucks. People, don’t let this review prevent you from watching the movie. It’s a good animated feature. Check it out.

I appreciate that Michael saved me from having to write all of that.

I hate that Seth’s coments make me point out that even not knowing the original story is no excuse for not recognizing an empty script, complete with a boring fight scene. Ignorance of the original tale does not magically make this story better. It’s terrible, and nobody who gets paid to write stories should feel good about having their name associated with this garbage.

The animation was routine, and decidedly average.

It was almost as terrible as Superman Returns.

ALMOST.

The Doomsday fight scene lacked any ump, and no cool animation that you come to expect with these guys. The last fight scene was equally as boring

They had so much material to work with and just decide to condense the storyline down to nothing. They could have done a 90minute fight scene + death and focus on that, the impact, and response…

Its such a huge disappointment, that I doubt much of the team that has brought us superman in the past worked on it.

simply lacked any comic book magic.

I’m still going to rent it, though. Even though I know I’m going to be disappointed. It’s like a geek-moral imperative.

i also am a comic book fan, so i know it too. the people i watched the movie with, however, had limited comic knowledge, and they loved it.

the fight scenes are obviously amazing; i disagree with your claim the the animation is poor.

dont let the pg13 fool you, its a kids movie.

Various other things just didn’t seem right like superman dieing then popping up in the next scene. Lex Luther only successfully creating an army of super clones after superman is already dead!? As mentioned before superman seemingly did not care about the people who were killed in the doomsday fight, I kept thinking why are people just standing there? Why don’t the evacuate the city!? Why is no other super heroes showed up to superman’s aid or even show up to his funeral? And my final ranting statement… how is it that after the fight when Lois was holding superman in his last moments no one thought to try and help. People just stood there puzzled.

Anne Hesch does give a terrible preformance, but I am not sure whether she is capable of giving a good one. She spoke too quickly running over her lines, which made it difficult to understand what she was saying.

I would also give this movie an ‘F’ as well as giving the present comic book industry an ‘F’.