All-Star Superman DVD evaluation

All-Star Superman is influenced by the grant Morrison/Frank Quitely story/homage to the character’s history as well as adapted by Dwayne McDuffie. A objective into the sun triggers Superman to be provided a death sentence by scientist Dr. Leo Quintum. The hero’s cells are “oversaturated with power” from solar radiation. When Superman discovers out he’s dying, he decides to stop lying to Lois. He takes her to his arctic fortress, full of marvelous wonders, where they lastly have an honest conversation, before he provides her powers temporarily as a birthday present. then Clark Kent as well as Lex Luthor have a showdown during a prison break, as well as Superman sets out to total his container listing as well as deal with off with a couple of evil Kryptonians.

The opening sequence sets up the Luthor/Superman rivalry quickly as well as with lots of action, plus trademarked grant Morrison-style huge ideas. then Luthor mainly vanishes for the next 20 minutes, demonstrating the biggest issue with the movie: its pacing. since of the too-short 76-minute length, events move extremely quickly. Although a few of Morrison’s concepts autumn apart if you believe about them — Superman saves the area objective by “extending his bio-electric field”, which basically works like magic — there’s so many of them that there’s always something new to see. It’s strongly influenced by the old-school Superman, the one who would gather bizarrely singing flowers from one more world just to thrill Lois or make bit suns to feed a infant Sun-Eater kept in his zoo. Ultimately, the movie is more like an animated overview of a Superman Encyclopedia than an actual story. It should have been a series, not a movie, since the result right here is choppy as well as as well episodic.

The biggest complaint I’ve heard about this new animated movie is that people’s preferred scenes or incidents from the comic miniseries (collected in two volumes) were omitted. At such short length, that’s to be expected, that they couldn’t include twelve issues’ worth of story. I can’t comment on specifics, since I don’t recall the details of the comic, although I’m looking ahead to re-reading it. (My copy of the absolute edition is still on order, since the very first one I got was misprinted.) however I can sympathize — they seem to have left out the more emotional scenes in favor of fights as well as action sequences, which is an regrettable contrast to the maturity of the comic.

Superman is competently played by James Denton, as well as Luthor in glorious exaggeration by Anthony LaPaglia. I was stunned to note that Quintum is well-voiced by Alexis Denisof. (Wesley! I wouldn’t have guessed.) I was happy to see Nasthalthia Luthor (Linda Cardellini) again, the most ridiculously-named comic villainness ever. My preferred voice, though, was Perry White: Ed Asner back as a gruff editor (yay!). In most cases, I heard the characters first, which I appreciated, not the name talent. The biggest flaw was Lois, played by Christina Hendricks, who sounded as well little-girlish to me, with not sufficient kick-ass-ish-ness, as well as not deep enough.

While the story is fairly faithful to Morrison’s text, the art isn’t especially Quitely-esque. It’s more generic than that in style — there are moments that make it look as though they’re trying to be more faithful to the look, however not rather succeeding at it, although the pictures we see look like the comic’s layouts. My assumption is they had so many things to draw — alligator men, the Parasite, area artifacts, just to name a few — that they had to simplify the unique look. Still, it was neat to see all these ideas executed in movement. It’s almost perfect for the contemporary interest span — pause it between segments, as well as there’s no effect to taking a break, or if one sequence doesn’t rate of interest you, wait a few minutes as well as there’ll be one more one.

Extras are as follows:

* “Superman Now”, a half-hour featurette in which grant Morrison as well as Dan DiDio talk in fantastic detail about making the All-Star Superman comic, illustrated with art samples from the series as well as voice-over narration reading the comic to us. I provided up after five minutes; DiDio was much as well self-congratulatory for me, as well as while Morrison’s points were interesting, I didn’t requirement that much depth.

* two episodes from Superman: The Animated Series: “Blast From the Past”, parts 1 & 2, which function Kryptonian villains.

* A eco-friendly Lantern: emerald Knights slip peek, almost 12 minutes geared at getting the viewer excited for the next animated movie, utilizing old comic clip art as well as extremely early sketches. Oh, look, it’s Dan DiDio once again (who for some reason kept reminding me of Vincent cost as Egghead), explaining the eco-friendly lantern Corps to us, together with other producers as well as directors, who compare the configuration to the Mnull