Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
15 years ago
I wasn't particularly blown away by the comic as written by Jeph Loeb way back when so I didnt have high expectations over this, and I think that helped in my enjoyment of this animated adaptation.
The late Michael Turner's art style has always been off to me [torsos! Torsos EVERYWHERE!] but I think it was adapted pretty well, some people say that it made Superman look too "pretty" but I can live with it, its Batman's look that bothered me [why the long face?] as well as Darkseid who doesn't nearly as intimidating as Turner drew him in the comic.
The voices are superb, Kevin Conroy returns as the quintessential animated Batman voice. The only weak link I found was Andre Braugher's performance as Darkseid whom I felt spoke too fast and too casual in portraying an old grizzled evil skyfather.
The story is fairly mediocre and serves only as excuse to cram as much fight scenes as they could. But to staff's credit, the fight scenes were very nicely done in terms of choreography and animation especially the ones that involved the female furies. And I liked the little touches that felt like a shout out to the DC series fight scenes such as when Darkseid blocks Superman's heat vision with his hand [a juxtaposition of their fight in the end of Superman: The animated series] or how Supergirl shot trough Darkseid's foot with her heat vision like what Superman did the JL episode "Twilight"
all in all, an alright watch, I'd put it under Red Hood, WW, and Crisis of Two Earths... a solid 3/5
The late Michael Turner's art style has always been off to me [torsos! Torsos EVERYWHERE!] but I think it was adapted pretty well, some people say that it made Superman look too "pretty" but I can live with it, its Batman's look that bothered me [why the long face?] as well as Darkseid who doesn't nearly as intimidating as Turner drew him in the comic.
The voices are superb, Kevin Conroy returns as the quintessential animated Batman voice. The only weak link I found was Andre Braugher's performance as Darkseid whom I felt spoke too fast and too casual in portraying an old grizzled evil skyfather.
The story is fairly mediocre and serves only as excuse to cram as much fight scenes as they could. But to staff's credit, the fight scenes were very nicely done in terms of choreography and animation especially the ones that involved the female furies. And I liked the little touches that felt like a shout out to the DC series fight scenes such as when Darkseid blocks Superman's heat vision with his hand [a juxtaposition of their fight in the end of Superman: The animated series] or how Supergirl shot trough Darkseid's foot with her heat vision like what Superman did the JL episode "Twilight"
all in all, an alright watch, I'd put it under Red Hood, WW, and Crisis of Two Earths... a solid 3/5
I didnt even want to watch it, really... I thought I was downloading the first ep of Sym-Bionic Titan.