I'm a big ol'nerd, I grew up on comic books and one of my favorite storylines of all time was 1992's Death Of Superman followed by A World Without Superman and ending into The Return Of Superman.
In 2007 when Superman: Doomsday was released I was excited, this was an adaptation of one of my favorite stories! How could it possibly fail?
Sadly fail it did, very impressively so as well. Therefore when I heard about this 2018 effort in production I assumed the worst and with good reason. Besides what an absolute mess 2018 has been I've resigned myself to the fact that the story is simply too big for a standard feature movie.
How can you tell a story of this scale in 80 minutes? Well simply, you can't. It needs to be condensed and that is what they've done here.
Essentially this is Death Of Superman light version, emitting a vast percentage of the actual story and adding bits and characters that simply shouldn't be there. For example Batman was never part of the story so why in the blue hell is he here? In fact neither was Wonder Woman I believe.
Anyway this is better I can't argue that, though it isn't even remotely loyal to the source material it's at least a tad closer to being and is fairly entertaining in places.
The voice cast is as usual top notch, the animation is fantastic though I was left scratching my head as to why they've kept the comic book aquaman considering how dramatically they've changed him in the live action universe.
The Death of Superman is best suited for someone who never read the comic and therefore has lower expectations. It's not bad, it's just not the epic I wanted to see.
The Good:
Well animated
Solid voice performances
The Bad:
Awful cover art
Doomsday doesn't look quite right
Eyebeams again? Really?
Far too many differences from the comic
Dumb final moment
Things I Learnt From This Movie:
During fights for your life and possibly the lives of millions of people it's customary to hug random children
In 2007 when Superman: Doomsday was released I was excited, this was an adaptation of one of my favorite stories! How could it possibly fail?
Sadly fail it did, very impressively so as well. Therefore when I heard about this 2018 effort in production I assumed the worst and with good reason. Besides what an absolute mess 2018 has been I've resigned myself to the fact that the story is simply too big for a standard feature movie.
How can you tell a story of this scale in 80 minutes? Well simply, you can't. It needs to be condensed and that is what they've done here.
Essentially this is Death Of Superman light version, emitting a vast percentage of the actual story and adding bits and characters that simply shouldn't be there. For example Batman was never part of the story so why in the blue hell is he here? In fact neither was Wonder Woman I believe.
Anyway this is better I can't argue that, though it isn't even remotely loyal to the source material it's at least a tad closer to being and is fairly entertaining in places.
The voice cast is as usual top notch, the animation is fantastic though I was left scratching my head as to why they've kept the comic book aquaman considering how dramatically they've changed him in the live action universe.
The Death of Superman is best suited for someone who never read the comic and therefore has lower expectations. It's not bad, it's just not the epic I wanted to see.
The Good:
Well animated
Solid voice performances
The Bad:
Awful cover art
Doomsday doesn't look quite right
Eyebeams again? Really?
Far too many differences from the comic
Dumb final moment
Things I Learnt From This Movie:
During fights for your life and possibly the lives of millions of people it's customary to hug random children