Batman: Knightfall Part 1: Knightfall Film Review

Believe it or it's been TWO years since we last got an American direct to DVD DC animated movie with the last ones being released being Watchmen Chapters 1 and 2. Believe it or not its actually been longer then that since we last got an American direct to the DVD Batman movie as the last one of those came out THREE years ago and while we did get Aztec Batman that's a Spanish film not an American one and well now we have a new direct to DVD DC film and well you all just know that  had to check this film out the very chance that I got and so then join me as i review the film that is the first of a three part story with the film in question being called simply just "Batman Knightfall Part 1: Knightfall" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when Arkham Asylum is blown up and every criminal escapes Batman and Robin have to round up every one of them whilst also working out who blew it up and to what end. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. To be frank here whilst this films plot is indeed really good as the plot of the film is one that is really fun to watch and is one that could very easily please alot of people due to the fact that it does feel like a plot that would be done in Batman: The Animated Series. However tho it should be noted that the films plot is rather thin and while this is something that does make alot of sense as the film is telling one story across three films there should have been more of an effort into giving us a more tighter and a more focused plot as alot of the time it is hard to make out just what the main plot of this even meant to be alot of the time as while sure we have the basic premise of Batman and Robin trying to recapture all of these past villains and that is a good premise to have but that's not enough to carry the plot for a movie and while this film does have the excuse of there being two other parts to be released hopefully this year there should have been an effort to give alot of the films plot some focus and not spend alot of time on scenes that might add something to either parts 2 or 3 but add nothing to the plot of this film as a whole with the plot of this films also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Inhumans star Anson Mount as Bruce Wayne / Batman and Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Brand New Day star Michael Mando as Bane. Also starring in this film is Orange Is The New Black star Pablo Schreiber as Jean-Paul Valley / Azrael ,  Jack Giffin as Tim Drake / Robin , Bruce Boxleitner as Commissioner Gordon , Late Night With The Devil star David Dastmalchian as Edward Nygma / The Riddler and James Bond Jr. star Simon Templeman as Alfred Pennyworth.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. The fact that this films acting is as good as it is in the first place really isn't all that shocking due to the fact that the film does have alot of really good actors in it and granted all of these actors that well known with perhaps the most well know at the very least to main stream audiences being David Dastmalchian and that's really it but even so if you've seen these actors in anything then you'll know how good tat they can be and all of them really do bring it in this film. With the best actor in this film being Michael Mando as Bane as he does get more of a chance to show off just good he is at being evil more so then what he does in any of the Spider-Man films that he's in and he really does nail it as this character so much so that you actively look forward to seeing him on screen as as an actor he is just a force of nature as this character so much so that I really would be happy if he became the official voice actor for this character as he is just so good to watch in this film with him having this natural nact for being evil that really does shine through in his performance in this film. With the acting that's in this very film really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this films actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will com out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality f the acting that's in this very film.

Doing the animation for this film is the legend and the really greats that really are currently over at Studio Mir. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. To be frank it was both shocking and at the same time not all that shocking to find out that we have some really good animation in this film as direct to DVD DC animated films do typically have some really good looking animation in them but it was still shocking as alot of the more recent films had animation that whilst it was still really good was also quite lackluster and to be frank uninspired. Yet here with this film you can tell that there was a lot of genuine thought and effort put into this films animation with the animation at times looking like the comic books brought to life only with there own unique touch with the thing that helps to make the animation in this film be as good as it is being the fact the characters d have these really cool looking designs to them with Batman looking like how he did in the nineties only now he's got a cape that at times has spikes that look like bats and while he does look a bit to muscular that was also true for the comic books as well with it being made clear as day that the makers of this film are taking inspiration for the comic books, with the thing that does let the films animation down being the fact that the characters do have a lot of shadows on them which is something that does always look off putting as it takes your eye away from where it should be that being the film as now your looking at something that's hideous to look at.

This film is based on the thirst part of the Knightfall arc with the entire arc being published between April 1993 and August 1994. With the arc itself being one of the more famous comic book arc that Batman has been in due to the fact that in part one of that arc we do see Batman getting his back broken by Bane something which we had never seen before then and might not have seen since then as that moment is so iconic that there is no way to do it again without drawing comparisons to how it was done in this comic book arc with it even forcing Batman to grow as a character as now he has to learn to trust someone else something which due to the fact that he had just lost Jason Todd he wasn't able to do due to the fact that he was scared of loosing not just another Robin but another friend. While it is hard to say if this film is a good representation of the first part of the Knightfall arc what can be said is that just by going off of a very qu9ick read from the books Wikipedia page it does seem as if this film is just covering up until the part where Batman does get his back broken as there are more things that does happen in the first book that isn't in this film which is quite fair enough as these films don't typically last all that long but if your going to be doing three films in the first place and have all three films adapt each of three parts of the arc then why not adapt all of it as you have more then enough room to do so and it's something that the die hard comic book fans would love to see as the whole point of doing films based on these comic books is to give us the same stories but done in animation. Granted alot of what happens in the rest of book 1 might not have work in a film format which is a fair case to make but then why not just find away around that and only adapt the parts from book 1 that would work in a film format.

This film does carry on the trend of them adapting the comic book as multi-part films which in all fairness is a really good way of giving the comics in a new format. However this film does end suffering thanks to that approach as for a long portion of the films running time there is nothing of interest happening as all we are seeing is Batman work himself into the ground as he spends two nights without sleep chasing every single criminal that escaped from Arkham which is fine for a scene or two as that gets across the state of mind that Batman is in right now but the film barely does anything with it and while the film doesn't really set up all that much for the other two films it doesn't also pay off anything that it sets up in this film either. This is kind of double edges sword when it comes to doing films in more then one part as of course you want to give your audience a reason to come back and watch part 2 but you also want to make part 1 feel as close to a complete film as it possibly could be and in some ways this film does that as you do get the iconic moment in this film that will force Batman to change as a character but due to the fact that we only see Batman acting out twice in the film and don't really get any hints of him loosing his edge at any other point in the film only when it's for other characters to call it out which does make the idea of Batman starting to loose it feel wasted as of course with the comic book they can and did do more of that by showing Batman getting weaker and weaker with every passing issue this is of course something that you really can't do with a film this is despite the fact that the idea of Batman going nights without rest without sleeping and without food and water is a good idea and it is a good way to show us that much like with GCPD in this film Batman is spreading himself far to thin and does need to take a step back.

This films main villain is of course Bane with the character looking like he just stepped right out of the comic books. Heck even how the character is presented in this film is so good as unlike in Batman & Robin this version of the character is always the smartest person in a room full of villains with him having this inner strength and desire to survive something that was tought to him by his mother and it is something that we see him use in the film as he refuses to let his captures from when he was a kid get the better of them and stays alive for years just to spite them and when he gets injected with the venom he lasts longer then anyone else that has taken it and with this ne found power he goes nuts killing everyone. The character is also quite smart as without first meeting either Bruce Wayne or Batman he deduces that the two of them are one in the same and because of that he is able to draw out Batman and his allies alot more easily with him letting Batman weaken himself for Bane which is such a smart move and it is something that does make this character be one of the more easier characters to adapt for a film or whatever as this is a character that you can use as this unstoppable force of nature and yet there's only been ne film live action film thus far that has gotten this part right about the character that being The Dark Knight Rises, with the villains plan in this film being to fix Gotham by removing all of the things that he deems to be wrong with it and given the fact that Batman doesn't kill anyone he's deemed as being one of the things that's wrong with Gotham as according to Bane he's allowed it to get into the state that it's in with this being plan that whilst yes it is a simple plan but it's also one thats affective due to how simple it is.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and eighteen minuets and thirty seven seconds. This was kind of running time that to be frank I wasn't expecting this film to have as alot of the direct to DVD DC animated films usually run for around about one hour and ten minuets and this film is almost ten minuets longer then that and it really didn't need to be as you very easily could have cut down ALOT of the pointless Bane origin story at the tart of the film to just it's bare essentials as we didn't need to see his mother giving birth to him and then showing her being put in jail as that's just pointless filler that would have been better of being left out of the film with the film having more then enough plot thee to really cover that amount of running time. The film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely due to the fact that the film really doesn't take the time to fully develop what little plot that it ha this is something that this film really should have done or layed the groundworks for the other two films to do and yet this film does neither one and therefor should the other films develop the plot it would feel out of place as the groundwork hadn't been layed this is something that could easily have been done just by cutting down on the pointless flashback origin for Bane and using the time freed up from that to add things to the films plot with it being made clear as day that the makers of this film put alot more thought and effort into showing us Bane's full origin story then they did into giving the plot some actual plot development. The same thing is also kind of true for the films character development as while it is understandable as to why the characters in this film don't et any character development and they do lay the groundworks for Batman to get the same character development that he always gets it would have been really nice to see one of the smaller known characters get some character development in this film with the makers of this film instead putting more thought and effort into showing us alot villain cameos then they di into giving its characters some character development but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With there being alot of good looking action scenes in this film all of which are helped by the fact that the animation in this film does help to sell you on the action as the animation makes all of the kicks and punches land harder and it makes all of the action cool to watch with the film giving us alot of cool moments with really all of the heroes and villains in this film with them all getting a time to shine which was a nice touch. With the best action scene in the whole entire film being of course the fight between Batman and Bane at the end of the film as we get to see a weakened Batman who has several injuries at this point in the film struggle to even land a decent hit on Bane with Bane just beating the heck out of him and destroying huge parts of Wayne Manor with Bane even destroying a huge part of the Batcave and while that moment would have been better save for part 2 it was still effective in this film as it does lead to the most iconic moment in recent Batman history as Bane taunts a near death Batman and lifts him up into the back his back over his knee with that whole action serving to show us the audience just how strong that this version of Bane is and how easily he could and in this case does break Batman with the rest of the films action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall whilst this film really is the first American direct to DVD DC animated film since Watchmen Chapters 1 and 2 this film does show that when it comes down to it DC really does still know how to make a really good animated direct to DVD film as while this film isn't as good as other solo Batman films it's also alot more better then what it really had any right to be in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

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Batman: Caped Crusader Season 2 SPOILER FILLED Review

There are alot of Batman shows out there some of them are great like Batman: The Animated Series and so of them are god awful like Batfam. Yet there is one show that not alot of people know even came back for a second season as not alot of people are talking this is despite the fact that a few years ago EVERYONE was talking about the shows first season well this reviewer didn't forget and it's that very season that i'm going to be talking to you all about today and so then join me as I review the second season of the how that is actually a step up from the first season with the show in question being called simply just "Batman: Caped Crusader" enjoy.

The plot of this season is sometime after the events of Season 1 Rupert Thorn and his son go missing with Thorn leaving The Riddler in charge with Batman having to try and stop him and a more dangerous foe lurking in the shadows. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very season well in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very season was in all honesty really good. This seasons plot is alot more better then the plot of the first season was as you don't really know what's going to happen this time around with that being the very thing that does make this seasons plot feel not only unpredictable but also more in line with the kinds of plots that they would do on Batman: The Animated Series. As with that show if you look at all of the best episodes alot of them all have the same thing in common and that's the fact that you can't tell where the plots are going and while this seasons individual plots aren't that good as alot of them do have have forgettable plots it's the ones that focus more on the seasons plot that do turn out to be the better episodes of the season as you don't really know where the episodes plot is going to go next and they help to further the seasons main plot in creative ways all of which do work and while yes the seasons main plot could have been better in some respects as the the season does have episodes that don't do anything with the seasons plot there's denying the fact that the plot of this season is alot better then the one that we got last season with the plot of this season also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this season is Hamish Linklater as Bruce Wayne / Batman and Jason Watkins as Alfred Pennyworth. Also starring in this season is Krystal Joy Brown as Barbara Gordon , Eric Morgan Stewart as James Gordon , Michelle C Bonilla as Renee Montoya , Matthew Needham as the Joker , Cedric Yarbrough as Rupert Thorne and Linton Midnite , Josh Keaton as Matthew Thorne and D.A Peter Mitchell , Gary Anthony Williams as Arnold Flass , John DiMaggio as Harvey Bullock , Ronan Raftery as Edward Nygma / Riddler , Laraine Newman as Hattie Tetch / Mad Hatter , Darcy Yellin as Dala Landry , James Urbaniak as Hugo Strange , Zach Lazar Hoffman as Mark "Dez" Desmond / Blockbuster , Bumper Robinson as Lucius Fox , Tom Kenny as Eel O'Brian , JP Karliak as Julian Gregory / Calendar Man , Grey DeLisle as Lois Lane , Wunmi Mosaku as Roxanne Sutton / Roxy Rocket , Blythe Melin as Niccolai Tepes / The Mad Monk , Roger Craig Smith as Jim Corrigan / The Spectre , Jamie Chung as Dr. Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn , Josh Brener as Jonathan Crane Jr / Scarecrow , Lacey Chabert as Vicki Vale , Fryda Wolff as Rose Canton / Thorn , Juliet Donenfeld as Carrie Kelley / Grey Ghost and Kevin Michael Richardson as Victor Fries / Mister Zero.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very season well in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very season was in all honesty really good. This seasons acting was equally on par with the acting from the last last season which in this case is by no means a bad thing as the overall acting un that last season was really good and while there are some better acted episodes in this season that is something that you do get in any given TV show with it being obvious that alot of the season actors who are coming back for this season have grown into there characters quite well and while they won't even be able to replace Kevin Conroy , Mark Hamill or even Tara Strong for that matter this season actors do do a good enough job of playing these characters in their own right. With the best actor in this season quite easily being Matthew Needham as The Joker as while the character doesn't really take centre stage until the final two episodes of the season Matthew does make them count and when he does take centre stage he does come across as being a more creepy version of The Joker with him giving the character alot of threat and menace whilst still maintaining the characters dog chasing a car mentality and yet it doesn't feel at odds with the rest of the seasons actors as while it would have been very easy for him to go over the top with the character as that is fitting for any take on the character the fact that the makers of this season really chose not to do that and rather keep the performance for the character small and creepy does make the character all the more creepier which is something that does shine through in his performance. With the acting that's in this very season really being helped by the fact that this season scripts are just so good that all this seasons actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very season.

Doing the animation for this season is Studio Grida and the legends and the greats that are currently over at Studio IAM. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very season well in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very season was in all honesty really good. This seasons animation was quite frankly alot more better then what it really had any right to be as it did times bring back memories of Batman: The Animated series and it's animation as both this show and that show do share a very similar art style yet in this season it does feel like that the art style was pushed to about as far as they could go with it. As there are times where the characters look like they would be more at home in Batman: The Animated Series rather then this show due to the fact that the shows do share a very similar look to them with even some of Gotham's buildings for example looking like how they did in that show with this being something that does help to rob this show of its own look and feel, this season does mix in a good dose of 3D CGI animation with alot of the cars and other vehicles being rendered in 3D which is something that you can tell right away as it does stand out like a sore thumb and while it does make sense that the makers of this show would chose to go this route for its vehicles there still should have been some effort to make them blend in as much as possible with the rest of the seasons animation and while the characters do have some fluid animation in the action they oddly don't when it comes to the seasons walking scenes where there movements become a lot more stilted.

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Like with the first season this season does also have a few nods and winks to both The Animated Series and oddly enough Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm. With there being shot somewhere early on in the season that is similar to the opening of The Animated Series intro with the two guys robbing a bank which was a fun tip off the hat to see as the first season ended with a nod to that very same intro yet much more later on in the season we get a mention of The Gotham Worlds Fair which was of course the main setting of Mask Of The Phantasm which while it was fun to hear that reference when you add in the fact that the show does look like The Animated Series all it ends up doing is reminding you that you could be watching a much more better and well loved show and movie. This is not to say that the show should stop tipping it's hat to The Animated Series heck they even mention The Grey Ghost in an episode with Carrie Kelly which again was fun to see but there has to be line between tipping your hat to the past and outright copying what worked so well in the first place and here with this show and this season it does feel like the makers of the show were copying things that worked in the previous show and that's not fair to this show as the idea of a more serialized Batman animated TV show is a good idea but given that the show does look and feel like The Animated Series is just makes you want to watch that show and not think about this one, with the only two places where this show does stand out being in the character designs which depending on the character either does or doesn't work and the fact that this season does have alot more gory and shocking deaths with it being revealed that Rupert Thorn and his son were frozen to death by this shows version of Mister Freeze.

As you might recall from the first seasons cliffhanger ending the man villain for this season is The Joker. Which is such a smart move on the behalf of the makers of this show as that character is perfect for this type of show and having be in the background for pretty much the first half of the season making us thing that it'll be The Riddler that's the main villain only to have The Joker fully take over in the last two episodes is a good move as it is something that we wouldn't see coming as while we did know that the character would be in this season in some capacity due to again the first season cliffhanger what we didn't know was how big of a role the character would play in the season and while he doesn't play that big of a role he plays a big enough role to make him a memorable villain. Heck out of him and The Riddler who are the two big villains this season it's The Joker that comes off as being all the more better as while The Riddler is just as crazy as ever with him killing people at random or just because they made him mad for a second that does feel out of character for him whereas with The Joker and seeing acting more cold and calculated whilst still being this dark and menacing creature of chaos does feel true to who he is as a character as this version of the character is trying to kill all of Gotham to get its citizens to see themselves for who he thinks that they really are with him not really having an end goal outside of that and that is perfect for The Joker as he does do whatever he wants to do just because he can, with him even presenting a true threat to Batman as while The Riddler was able to out smart Batman several times The Joker has always been able to push the limits of how far Batman is willing to go to stop a criminal with this being something that he does do in this season with Batman only just being able to hold of on killing him. 

We do get different version of classic Batman villains in this season with the character of Mister Zero pretty much just being Mister Freeze and the character of Thorn pretty much just being Poison Ivy even down to them both having a love of plants. This is something that makes no sense at all as those villains are so well known even today that you could just have them be called there classic names and it would still work as the show is keeping alot of things about the characters in the first place that they are still just those iconic characters and if your going to change the characters name then why not go all out and make it a new character all together why not make Thorn for example be someone who hates plants and wants to destroy all plant life on earth and why not make Mister Zero someone who is just really good at cleaning up the messes that the mob leaves behind them. As those would still work as villains as it makes it easier for us the audience to hate them as characters and yet due to the fact that the makers of this show are pretty much just making them those characters al it does is make us wonder why they aren't calling Poison Ivy Poison Ivy and again like with the first season they do a gender swap of a classic villain with it being The Mad Hatter this go around and to be frank it is something that does work alot more better this go around as they aren't so in your face about it with the character in this season being the host of a talk show that just bashes everything that Batman and the GCPD does whilst praising all of the villains with the character only appearing in a few handful of episodes before she gets killed of near the end of the season which is a good way to use her.

Now then this season has / had an exact grand total running time of no longer of no longer then twenty eight minuets. With there being ten episodes in this season one being around twenty seven minuets in length and while the show is ten episode the episode count does make this season a bit of a chore to watch as there are plenty of filler episodes that don't do anything to the plot and are purely there to fill out the episodes order as you very easily could have told this seasons entire story line in about five maybe six episodes at a stretch and yet for one reason or another the makers of this show thought that we needed a good ten episodes to tell this story when all that does is drag out the seasons plot with the season having just about enough plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet even with the season being ten episodes long it still doesn't take all that much time to fully develop either it's episodic plot or it's season long with both plots coming across as being undercooked when the season had plenty of time to fully develop it's main plot as all it would have to do is just have more episodes that are focusing on the main plot to fully flesh it out and for the episodic plots it would need to have scenes in there that that are all about pushing that episodes plot forward and making it feel more well developed and yet the makers of this season clearly put more time and effort into making nods and winks to The Animated Series that we ended up getting a more weaker developed plot. With the same thing even being true for the seasons character development as while Batman got some character development last season by learning to trust Alfred here he gets none with him even having the same character arc as the last season only now it's with the GCPD characters with none of them getting any character development either the makers of this show being more focused on giving classic villains new names then they are in giving it's characters character development but I really will admit that this season really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. With each of the seasons ten episodes having at the very least one action scene in it with some naturally being better then others with the fact that we have this many action scenes per episode does serve to make the point that when this show gets it right like it does with alot of this seasons action then it really does get it right as the action in this season is just so good that it makes you want to watch the rest of the episode. With the best action scene in the entire season being the fight scene with The Joker in episode 10 "The Laughing Death" as we get to see Batman and The Joker just go all out in a what is basically a fight to the death while on top on a building while Gotham is in chaos around them due to The Jokers Joker Venom being around to everyone including Alfred and James Gordon with Batman only just being able to cure Alfred who then flies that Batplane over Gotham spreading the cute all the while Batman and the Joker are still duking it out neither one being able to best the other one with it only being due to Joker leaping of he building himself that the fight finally ends, this is a good way to end the season as it does this great season out on a high note as we want to see these two character duking it out and going all out and that's exactly what we got with the rest of the seasons action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall this season was easily ten times better then the first season and it is a shame that not alot of people are watching this new season as while your not going to be seeing anything groundbreaking like with The Animated Series but you would see is something that was a huge step in the right direction in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very season in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very season really does earn itself a grand ld score of exactly an 8 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and well as ladies and gentlemen I personally all of the images that I personally used in this very review from IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Supergirl TV Series "The Adventures Of Supergirl" Review

Believe it or not we have just a few a weeks left until the second and hopefully better live action Supergirl films comes out. While yes there will be a tie in review for that film coming out about a week or so before the release of that film this isn't it as people have seemed to have forgotten the fact that the character did also appear in a successful live action TV show with it being an episode of that show that i'm going to be talking to you all about today and so then join me as I review the episode that not only saw Supergirl meet her more famous cousin but also saw the show jump ship to The CW with the episode in question being called simply just "The Adventures Of Supergirl" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when a Kryptonian ship crash lands on Earth Supergirl and her cousin Superman have to find out who was in the ship and stop an assassination attempt on Lena Luthor. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. For a show on The CW this episodes plot was about as good as it was ever going to be as lets be frank here when you think of shows on The CW you don't usually think of high end plots and with this in mind this episodes plot did turn out to be alot more better then what it really should have been. With the plot of the episode being one that is quite fun and does serve as a great way to get you into what was this shows second season as it doesn't hit you over the head two much with the series overall plot rather it just gives you the basic Supergirl plot and that's really it and to be fair for a season opener that's all it really needed to do and while yes it would have been nice if the plot of this episode was alot more stronger as alot of the time it did feel like the episode was just on repeat mode until we get to the third act with this being something that did make it feel like the plot of the episode was playing second fiddle to Superman when it should have been the other way around with even the fact that Superman is in this episode doesn't really add anything to the episodes plot as he doesn't really do alot to advance the plot of the episode in the first place with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Melissa Benoist as Kara Danvers / Supergirl and Mehcad Brooks as James Olsen. Also starring in this episode is Chyler Leigh as Dr. Alex Danvers , Jeremy Jordan as Winn Schott , Chris Wood as Mon-El , David Harewood as Director J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter , Tyler Hoechlin as Clark Kent / Superman , Calista Flockhart as Cat Grant , Katie McGrath as Lena Luthor , Brenda Strong as Dr. Lillian Luthor , Frederick Schmidt as John Corben , Andrea Brooks as Eve Teschmacher , Sachin Sahel as McGill and Darren E. Scott as Baker.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. The fact that this episodes acting is about as average as you'd expect from a CW show is pretty much something that you expect as much like how no one goes into Power Rangers expecting good acting the same thing is true for quite literally any show on The CW, yet even so the acting in this episode was alot more better as you could see the actors actually trying to put in a good performance with alot of quite clearly caring about the show enough to put in a good enough performance in the first place. With the best actor in this episode being Calista Flockhart as Cat Grant as while it would have been super easy to say that either Melissa or Tyler were the best actors in this episode Calista just about stole the show acting wise as she does have a great speech in the episode and with her making it obvious that she is leaving the show she does have go the extra mile to make her performance in the episode be all the more believable and this is something that she does do with great ease. With the acting that's in this episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the CGI for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Lindala Schminken FX. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. Look to be fair CGI has never been The CW's strongest suit as alot of there effects heavy shows like this one and Th Flash for example do have alot of very wonky CGI in them but in this episode is does feel as if the episode had already ran out of money for it's effects. As alot of the flying effects do look half finished even for a TV show with Superman himself perhaps getting the worst flying effects in he episode as it does just look like he's being dragged like something on a laptop or computer and heck the scenes with him and Supergirl together in the air just look fake as it's clear that the actors weren't filmed together. However whilst there are alot of really bad looking effects in this episode there are also some decent looking ones as well like for example the Lena Corp building does look pretty good as does the scene where Supergirl and J'onn are trying to stop the falling Kryptonian ship from crashing into alot of buildings and yet it's the more bigger scenes that do let this episodes CGI down as its all good giving alot of the more smaller scenes in the episode some really good effects but you also have to give the more important scenes some really good looking effects as well and this is something that this episode just doesn't do now in all fairness this could be a budget reason as this episode would have had to have spread its budget across a whole season of episodes which if that was the case then why did they introduce a character that's going to eat up more of there effects budget in the first place when that could have been used to make the episodes effects all the more better then what they already are.

As was mentioned at the very start of this review this episode does see Superman fully make his debut in this show. While yes the character did technically appear in the first season of the show it was always either from behind or really far away but this is the first time that we actually get to see him proper with this version of the character being abut as true to the Superman character as you can hope for on a TV show budget with him being the eternal optimist which is something that is true to how character as Superman will always look for the good in people even if they can't see it yet in themselves and this is something that we do get to see this take on the character do in this episode as we get to see him talking to other member of Team Supergirl with him more often then no giving them advice on how to get what it is they want currently in life. The only thing does somewhat let this version of the character down is the fact that both he and Supergirl are cracking jokes at each other every few minuets that they are on screen together which is something that does make sense as they did quite literally grow up together but alot of the time it does feel like that they are stopping the episode to have the characters make a quick joke and when you add in the face that Supergirl is also an eternal optimist in this show it does make there conversations together just not that interesting with the only interesting thing that they say to each other being at the end of the episode when Superman asks Kara to tell him stories of Krypton which is so that does make sense as he was only a baby when the planet blew up and show would know alot more about the planet then he would have done but if the makers of this episode had her start to doubt herself in this episode then maybe there chats together could have been more fun to watch as then he would be someone who is trying to motivate her instead of someone who is just like her and talking the exact same way that she does.

This episode does also see the show fully jump ship from CBS to The CW however whilst this does come with it's advantages like being alot more easier for crossovers to happen as now all of the Arrowverse shows are filmed in the same studio. It does also come with it's disadvantages as well as actor Calista Flockhart did have to leave the show as it would mean being away from her family for a huge portion of the year something which wasn't an issue in the first season as the first season of the show was filmed in LA whereas from season 2 onwards they mostly filmed in Vancouver this is does have the on add effect of making this show look like all of the other Arrowverse which granted is great for unity but given the fact that this show is meant to take place on a different earth it does make the show feel alot less unique. With another plus being the fact that it does allow for the makers of this episode to be alot more hands on something which we don't really get to see in this episode as the episode does feel like a typical Supergirl episode and that's really it but we do get to see a change to the status quo of the show with Kara now being a reporter and the DEO now having a bigger base of operations this was no doubt done due to the fact that they the show might have had a bigger budget this time around and while the effects don't entirely reflect that the fact that we get a new main set for the rest of the show does and to be fair to this episode it does show of this new set quite alot as we get alot of scenes in this new set with the characters just showing alot of the different rooms something which they might not have done in the previous season and while not alot of the new scenes in this new set add anything to the plot of the episode the set itself is one that does look really impressive but at the same time tho the makers of this could have spent alot less on that set and given more of the money to the episodes effects teams t make this episode effects be all the more better.

The main villain in this episode is John Corben with the character apparently being one of the best assassins in this world. I say apparently as he has two attempts to kill Lena Luthor and he fails both times which is something that one of the best assassins in the world just wouldn't do granted the first reason was because of the fact that she changed her mind about going on the space ship and did something else but on the second attempt he was only fighting Alex a mortal who he could have shot several times but didn't this doesn't really make him a good assassin but given the fact that he's the first villain of a new season he does his job well enough as he's only there to set up the main threat for this season which is CADMUS and the villains that they create. With John himself not really being the best of villains as he doesn't have a main plan in mind which does make it look like that he's just doing all of these things for no reasons now granted there is very much a chance that in further episode they might very well have explained what his plan was in this episode but in terms of this episode they do no such thing which is something that does make him look like a weak villain as there's nothing interesting about him that makes us the audience want to see more of him as a character and yet yet he gets the big tease for the season when he gets turned into Metallo which isn't enough to make him an interesting character granted the first villain if a new season is never meant to be interesting as they are basically there to get you in the mood for what's to come but there really still needs to be something literally anything about them that makes them worth while be it there power of there plan and yet John has nothing interesting about him and therefor we the audience have really no reason to care for him as a character.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty two minuets and forty eight seconds. Which to be fair to this episode is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this show in the first place and while the episode really didn't need that amount of running time it would have done more harm to the episodes plot then good if the episode was even five minuets shorter as the episode does have alot of things to set up and while alot of the rings that it does set up would have been better saved for the second episode getting them out of the way here does allow for those other episodes to be more fun in the first place with this episode having the right mount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place. However the episode really doesn't use its running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't take the fully develop its plot and while this isn't a huge issue as it is something that very easily could be an issue for all of the other Arrowverse shows it ie something they the makers of this episode should taken some steps in fixing as due to the plot being as wafer thin as it is there times where it does get to tell just what the main plot is meant to be with the makers of hie episode being more focused on showing us its new DEO set then it is in giving us a well thought out plot. The same thing could also be said for the episode character development altho here there is an in build excuse as you could very well make the argument that the characters got alot of there character development during the shows first season which is something that would be a fair point to make however a character like Superman didn't get any character development which again you could argue he doesn't need as he's so well in the first place but this is a new version of the character and yet we know nothing about him with the makers of this episode being more focused on having Clark and Kara making jokes about each other then they are in giving there characters some character development but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With the episode really delivering on its action as well as it possibly could have done as we do have to take into account that this is a TV show that's made on a TV show budget and therefor we can't expect there to be lots of really good action every few minuets as that just wouldn't be good for the episodes budget and yet with that in mind this episodes action did turn as well as it could have done. With the best action scene in the whole entire episode being the third act attack on Lena Luthor as we get to not only see Superman and Supergirl working together with both of them using there powers to stop her building from falling but we also get to see Alex engage John in hand to hand combat with her being more then able to hold her own against him, with it always a good time when we get to see more then one superhero use there powers as that is something that will always be cool to see with it being Supergirl that does rightfully save the day as she is the title character after all as she does construct a small tower made out of steel beams to support the building and stop it from falling which is a pretty unique way to save the day with the hand to hand fight being the more interesting of the two bits of action as we do get to see both characters struggle to get the upper hand on the other with Alex only just barely escaping with her life with the rest of the episodes action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while time will indeed tell if the forthcoming movie Supergirl will be a good film this show and this episode isn't one that should be slept on either as while yes this episode is just the stereotypical The CW superhero show episode this is something that is right for this version of the Supergirl character in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that re in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the i ages that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Arrowverse fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very post being the really great the official Arrowverse fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Arrowverse fandom wiki page really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Suicide Squad: Hell To Pay Film Review

While DC is mainly known for producing animated shows and movies for at best teenagers they sometimes venture into doing adult animated movies and shows. With a good example of this being the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today as while Task Force X haven't had the best of runs when it comes to live action when it comes to there animated output and in the case of Suicide Squad: Isekai there anime out put they are usually done alot more better and I wanted to give you guys a good example of this film with the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today so then join me as I review the film that really should have been what the 2016 Suicide Squad movie should have been with the film in question being called simply just "Suicide Squad: Hell To Pay" enjoy.

The plot of this film is Task Force X is tasked with finding a card that grants it's holder the ability to get out of hell the only issue being alot of other people including both Zoom and Vandal Savage also want the card for their devious ends. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With this films plot being the perfect plot for these characters to be in as at it's heart this films plot is a road trip movie only it's a road trip movie where all of the characters are villains and could turn on each other at any moment with that being the thing that does drive the plot of this film forward and it's something that does work in this film as these are characters that would turn on each other the first chance that they get and while the plot of this film is one that could be considered very weak due to the fact that the film doesn't really focus on it's plot all that much which is something that would be fair case to make you could also make that claim about several other better DC animated movies as well with the thing that sets this films plot apart from all of the other direct to DVD DC animated movies being the fact that it's plot is one that is a really fun plot with the plot really having as much fun as it could possibly don given the fact that all of the characters in this film are characters that you would normally hate with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Christian Slater as Floyd Lawton / Deadshot and Vanessa Williams as Amanda Waller. Also starring in this film is Billy Brown as Ben Turner / Bronze Tiger , Liam McIntyre as George Harkness / Captain Boomerang , Tara Strong as Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn , Kristin Bauer Van Straten as Crystal Frost / Killer Frost , Gideon Emery as Sameer Park / Copperhead , C. Thomas Howell as Eobard Thawne / Professor Zoom / Reverse-Flash , Jim Pirri as Vandal Savage and Werner Zytle / Count Vertigo , Dania Ramirez as Scandal Savage , Dave Fennoy as Blockbuster ,  Tobias Whale , Black Manta and A Police Officer , Greg Grunberg as Steel Maxum / Doctor Fate , Dave Boat as Harvey Dent / Two-Face and Punk 2 , Trevor Devall as Punch and Punk 1 , Cissy Jones as Knockout and Female Announcer , Julie Nathanson as Siobhan Smythe / Silver Banshee and Jewelee , James Urbaniak as Lazlo Valentin / Professor Pyg , Natalie Lander as Dharma and Matthew Mercer as A Savage Gunman , A Argus Scientist and A Belle Reve Doctor.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. The fact that this films acting is as good as it is isn't really something that's shouldn't be all that surprising as the film does have a alot of really good voice actors in this film and heck even Tara Strong had been playing Harley Quinn for quite literally years at this point in time with her being the official voice actor for the character and yet at the same time given the fact alot of this films actors are either not really that well known or have very spotty records at best when it comes to there acting it was still surprising to see alot of really good performances in this film with even the likes of Christian Slater who wouldn't be in anyone's top ten to play the role of Deadshot is pretty decent as the character. With the best actor in the whole entire film being Billy Brown as Ben Turner / Bronze Tiger as while alot of the films other actors can be these goofy characters and have these more goofy moments he has to play every straight and it is something that does work as it does allow him to turn in a really good performance due to the fact that his character is one of the most serious characters in the team with that being something that does shine through in his performance with the acting that's in this film really being helped but the fact that this films script is just so good that all this films actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them actually which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film. 

Doing the animation for this film is the legends and the really greats that are currently over at DR Movie. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With the films animation not being up the standard that DR Movie had when they were doing say for example the animated Hellboy movies or the Guardians Of The Galaxy TV show as here everything from an animation point of view did look a little flat with all of the colors in thew day time shots being really blown out and over exaggerated alot of the time this is despite the fact that the characters do have some really nice fluid movements to them that help the action in this film really feel more alive. Yet at the same time tho the film does make great of CGI animation as well with the only thing that's really done in this format being the teams camper van which is understandable as it would be hard to do that in any other form of animation with it being something that is blended in really well as you can't really tell that's CGI animated alot of the time and when the film does want to have good quality animation like for example on the films gore then it is something that does stand out and it's something that makes you wonder why the rest of the film doesn't look that good and yet the few frames of gore that we get in every single action scene looks as surely the makers of this film would want it to be the other around.

As was said near the start of this review this film is everything that that 2016 film should have been as that film so desperate to be DC's answer to Guardians Of The Galaxy that it forgot to be a movie about Task Force X. With that film straight up making all of the characters that are bad guys into good people when that's not who these people are with the only one who you could argue is a good person being Harley Quinn and that's really it with things not really being helped by the fact that the plot of that film was just s bad as it didn't feel like a Suicide Squad plot rather it felt like a generic superhero plot thankfully these are things that both this film and it's sequel The Suicide Squad went out of there to fix as this film does feel like the kind of the film that you want to see this group in with the characters being how you would want them to be as they do spend alot of the time trying to backstab and double cross each other. As there bad guys it's what they do and yet in the 2016 film there's none of that with them spending alot of that film acting as friends to each other which would be fine if they were heroes as then it's kind of expected for them to act that way around other heroes but these are meant to be villains so there not going to spend alot of the time working as a team there rather going to be spending alot of the tike looking out for number one and while yes this film does have moments where they are working as team but it's only when they have no other choice but to work together or when there fighting a literal immortal person that they then work together as then it would make sense for them to do something like that.

This film is something that alot of the films that have Task Force X as the main characters should be and that's fun. With the character cracking alot of jokes all of which feel very true to there characters and yet few of them are actually funny when given that this film is essentially an action comedy not in the vain of Batman And Harley Quinn was for example where that film was an actin comedy but it was enough to make you wonder why the makers of this film didn't make this a full blown action comedy as they could have gotten some good mileage out of the more straight laced Bronze Tiger dealing with the more wacky and looney Copperhead for example as the two of them could have made for a great comedic duo and while we know that Harley Quinn can be funny due to her appearances in Batman: The Animated Series it would have been interesting to see her try and bounce of someone like Killer Frost as we've already seen try and fail to bounce off Deadshot in the 2016 and yet it felt like the makers of this film only went half way with the main idea of making this film a road trip movie. With that main idea feeling underbaked and wasted as there is room for a lot of jokes there and while the film does milk the jokes it could make when the characters an adult club with Harley Quinn going nuts at every male that she sees so much so that Killer Frost quite literally has to cool her down which is a funny idea and is a good idea of just how well that those characters could work in a more comedic film and while the fact that this film isn't as comedic as it should have been doesn't stop the film from being any less it is something that does hold the film from being as completely nuts and balls to the wall as these characters really should be.

While the film does explain why Zoom wants to get this card as he wants it to prevent his death in another timeline from happening. The film never really explains why both Vandal Savage and Amanda Waller want it with the film only hinting that Vandal wants it as a way to keep himself alive they never really say why Amanda wants it as outside of one scene at the start of the film where we see her getting some kind of treatment we get nothing from her which makes it odd that she would force Task Force X onto going on this mission as she gains nothing from it either way whereas if the film explained that she wanted this card because of the fact that she was dying and was fearful of what will happen to her then it would make sense for her to get the team to get the card for her as that is something that she would do. With this film involving three teams all trying to get this card it then makes that whole idea start to fall in on itself when one of three leaders doesn't have a motive that's explained to us in the film and while both Zoom and Savage basically have the same motive for wanting to get this card with the film even hinting that something is wrong with Zoom due to the fact that he's not moving as fast as Deadshot knows that he can which is a really good way to tell us that the character is dying without actually telling us that he's dying and heck it could even be argued that he's the most thought out villain in the film as we get several scenes with him all of which show us just how far he's willing to go to get this card and yet with Savage he doesn't really play that big of a role in the film until the films third act which does make it a bit to late for him to make any real impact on the film as a whole whereas Zoom is in the film from the very beginning.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty six minuets and three seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for these direct to DVD DC animated films and to be fair to this film this film really does have the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place and yet even with this in mind this film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the film really doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot as the films plot as good as it is is one that does feel like it's quite underbaked almost as if the film had spend a bit more longer on its running time rather hitting home the fact that it's an adult animated comic book film then it would have been a much more better film that would have been able to be one of the more better recently released direct to DVD DC animated. With the same thing also being true for the films characters as well as none of them get any kind of character development whatsoever as while the films characters do act like how you expect them to act like from the comic books we don't get to find anything about this films characters as we the audience know as much about all of this films characters coming out of the film then we do coming into the film whereas if the film did spend some time of developing both it's plot and characters not always in major ways but in smaller ways as well then the film could have ended up being alot more better then what it already is as the idea alone is more the enough to make the film it just needed to be more thought and developed and that's it but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho. 

So now then as this is an action film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With this being where the 2016 film actually tops this film as the action in that film is alot more better then the actin in this film even tho you can barely see the action in that film what little you can see tho is more then enough to make you know that the action in that film is the best of the film. With the things that makes the action in this film really good being the fact that the animation really does come alive in those scenes with each hit and kick leaping of the screen with us even getting some unique looking location at least for Task Force X films with the the best action scene in the whole entire film being the films third act fight as we get to see Task Force X take on Vandal Savage and his guards plus Zoom and all of his followers as well in an epic three way fight with all of the members of the team getting to showcase just what it is that they bring to the team and while the films main character is Deadshot with him getting alot of the cool moments during the action scenes that doesn't stop any of the films other characters from having moments that are for  lack of a better word cool to watch. The film even gives us a decent amount of gore in all of it's action scenes with us outright seeing the characters really getting there heads blown of and blood go everywhere which is a small thing but it is something that really does make the action in this film feel alot more real with all of this films action being as good as it could have possibly been in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall while it's debatable on if this is the best Suicide Squad film one this is for sure tho and that's the fact that this film is the best animate Suicide Squad project as it does get the team down perfectly whilst also being a fun fill film that more then holds almost ten years later in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are this film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from IMP Awards . Com and Google images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very film that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very film with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.