Superman: Doomsday Film Review

Believe it or not it's been almost twenty years since DC Comics started putting out direct to DVD animated movies on a yearly basis. As while yes they have put out "movie" length episodes of animated TV shows onto DVD they very rarely did full length films as a direct to DVD animated movie and yet the film that i'm about to be talking to you all today about really is the movie that kicked started it all and so then join me as I review the film that really kick started the DC Universe Animated Original Movies line up of films with the film in question being called simply just "Superman: Doomsday" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when an unstoppable killing machine is accidently released by Lexcorp it's up to Superman to try and defeat the beat once and for all. 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 not that bad as it was a plot that could only be told in a movie length format and not in an episode of say Superman: The Animated Series for example as it would get butchered to death and while yes granted this movie does also condense the story the story of the book that this film is based off of by cutting down alot of the extra comic books that made up the whole story and while that would usually be bad thing here given the fact that this is DC's first proper direct to DVD animated movie it does make sense as not only are they starting of this line of movies by adapting the storyline that sees Superman get killed off but this is also there first direct to DVD animated film and so of course they have to cut it down in order to make it appeal to a much wider audience with the original story gaining a more faithful adaptation in a two part animated direct to DVD film release in 2018 with the plot of the book not really being effected in the transition to this film adaptation of the story as that's just how good the plot of this film really is 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 Adam Baldwin as Clark Kent / Kal-El / Superman , Anne Heche as Lois Lane and James Marsters as Lex Luthor. Also starring in this film is John DiMaggio as The Toyman , Tom Kenny as The Robot , Swoosie Kurtz as Martha Kent , Cree Summer as Mercy Graves , Ray Wise as Perry White , Adam Wylie as Jimmy Olsen , Kevin Smith as A Grumpy Man , Kimberly Brooks as Murphy , Townsend Coleman as A Drill Operator , Chris Cox as Damon Swank , Hettie Lynn Hurtes as A Newscaster and James Arnold Taylor as Officer Tucker.

No 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. With all of these actors being perfectly cast for this film which does make sense as the great Andrea Romano did the voice direction for this film and as perusal was able to get a good performance out of all of this films actors so much so that after a while it was easy to stop hearing the actor and to start hearing the character something that alot of modern animated films direct to DVD or not sometimes fail to do with it really being helped by the fact that alot of this films actors actually recorded there lines together which means that we do get a strong sense of the chemistry between the characters and actors as well something that is alot harder to do when the actors aren't bein recorded together with all of this films actors turning in performances that is perfect for there respective characters with none of this films actors turning in performances that would make there character feel somewhat out of character as even the more robotic voice that Adam Baldwin gives the clone Superman does feel right for that character as that version of Superman doesn't know everything about Clark Kent but does know pretty much everything about Superman and as a result of that is the fact that he would of course sound robotic at times as he's just reciting what he knows about Superman and that's really it with the acting that's in this 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 really will come out of them alot more naturally which is something that really does help to raise 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 Lotto Animation. 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 un 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 but at the same time tho this films animation really isn't all that good either as why yes granted this films animation is leagues better then we got in say Ultimate Avengers for example for one reason or another this films animation just isn't as good as the animation in other direct to DVD animated films and part of that might be because of the fact that this is there first direct to DVD animated film and so they just went with the cheapest animation studio that they could find but at the same time tho alot of it might just because of the fact that Lotto Animation aren't really that well known for doing animated movies as there more known for doing animated TV shows with the occasional foray into feature length films and while they would turn in better in animation in Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated here in this film there animation just isn't as good as we know the animation would get in not only the later DC animated films both theatrical and not but also in Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm as well with this films animation looking a lit dated in some areas and OK looking at best in others where as even as early as the 2009 Wonder Woman the animation would get extremely better looking as well.

Incase some of you don't know this film is the first adaptation of the classic Superman comic book story line The Death Of Superman. With this film giving us a more condensed version of the story and heck even Doomsday himself only appears in a very small handful of scenes and he's the one that does what Lex Luthor and so many others have tried and failed to do and that's actually kill Superman with Doomsday being this supposedly unstoppable killing machine that even has the Man Of Steel himself pausing to catch his breath something which Doomsday doesn't let him and this is something that does set doomsday apart from all of the other one of Superman foes as while he doesn't have the brains of Lex Luthor what he does have the speed and the muscle needed to defeat Superman something that does help him make a memorable first impression on us the audience so much so that it's easy to believe that he could defeat this truly iconic superhero with this also being helped by the fact that his design for this film is just knarly and out there that you can't help but to feel somewhat intimated by him and while comic book purists might have preferred it if they just kept the sack like design that they had in comic book for a movie you want something that's alot more cinematic and that's exactly what we got with his design in this movie and while that's not a knock on the comic book design for the character by any means it's just that Doomsday is a character that punch's first and asks question second and this current design for his character does reflect that part of his character.

In one of the issues of making this film a single part film is the fact that all of the films more emotional moments aren't given the time that they really did need to set in and sit with us the audience. With this being a big issues when it comes to the scene when Lois goes to visit Martha right after Superman has died and been buried and she starts crying because of the fact that she know what Martha knows and that's the fact that Clark Kent is Superman and she was his girlfriend in this movie and that's not something that she can say because it would be giving away who Superman was as well and yet the film just brushes over it like it was nothing when that is something that should have been given alot more focus on as it's a key part of her character arc for this film and yet the film does nothing with it with the same thing also being true for alot of the films over emotional moments as well with this actually being something that was actually very vastly improved upon in the 2018 The Death Of Superman two part film as they took the time to not only develop the characters alot more further then what they could have done in this film but they also added more emotional value to the storyline as well something that this film for one reason or another just couldn't do and while this film should get alot of credit for being the first direct to DVD DC animated movie it should be noted that out of the two versions of this story it's oddly the 2018 film that did it better because of the fact that it let it's more emotional moments sit with us the audience thus making them all the more impactful and slightly more memorable in the process.

What this film does really well is make Lex Luthor out to be even more psychotic then what he has ever been before. As due to the fact that he wasn't the one to give the killing blow to Superman he clones him just so that he can control him and on a nightly basis beat him up in a Kryptonite room with Kryptonite laced robotic hands all because of the fact that the real Superman is now dead and that right there is some messed up thing to do and yet it's also something that does feel in character for Lex Luthor in his own sick and twisted way as he like the rest of the characters in this film are mourning the death of Superman in there own special ways but with Lex he takes it to whole other level just because he can do and that is something that does make him a real threat to Superman as Lex can go to those extremes due to the fact that he's really rich and powerful where as Superman isn't and Lex has no moral code to stand by something that we see play out in this film as he openly kills his own assistant Marcy Graves in cold blook all for no reason whatsoever and killing someone is something that Superman would never do but what let's Lex's plan of cloning the dead Superman down is the fact that all of the things that he programmes into the clones are things that are public knowledge about Superman as nobody knows that Clark Kent is Superman and therefor they wouldn't know small things like what his favorite TV show is or more important things like who his girlfriend is and that's little piece of missing information that clues in Lois to the fact that the person that she thought was the realm Superman is infact a clone version of him.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and seventeen minuets and forty one seconds. Which to be fair is more then enough running time for this film to tell this version of the story as this film really does have more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time and while the film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as none of the characters are given much development as all of them just have the same personalities as the main stream audience would know them to have but to be fair tho the film didn't really need to fully develop them as they are that well known characters would it have been nice if they were fully developed of course it would but alot of the people that coming into this film aren't coming to it to see some really well thought out characters there coming to see one of if not the world's most famous superhero get killed off and that's really it and again to be fair that is where this film shines it's brightest as the film does dedicate alot of time not only to the main fight between Superman and Doomsday but to also the after effects of such a massive battle as well with the film even showing us the audience how several well known characters where deeply effected by the death of this one person which was a really effective use of it's running time but at the same time tho this film would have been alot more better if the film did use it's running time alot more wisely by not only developing it's characters to the point where you actually feel sorry for Lois when Superman does die but to also allow more of a build up for his eventual return near the end of the film as well but I really will admit that this film really does have some really pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is ana 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 fil 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. As due to this film having a more mature rating then alot of the other DC animated projects with this film getting an American rating of PG-13 which is the equivalent of 12 rating over here in the UK the film does get away with being alot more violent then what they could have gotten away with on either Superman: The Animated Series or either Justice League cartoon with them even going as far as to showing Superman bleed something that really hasn't been done since this film with the best fight in the whole entire film going to Superman Vs Doomsday as it was just so cool seeing these two alien beings just go at it and yet at the same time it did have those emotional gut punches as not only does Lois come to realise but us the audience also come to realise that Superman is literally giving up his life to defeat this one monster something that we hadn't seen before now because f the fact that no other monster had challenged him so much and yet here it works not only on just cool to see but also on a storytelling level as well with both characters even getting in lots of painful looking hits as well and that's not to say that the Superman Vs Clone Superman fight is a bad fight because it's not it just that this one was alot more better and alot more impactful as well just due to how good of a fight that it was and that's something that they couldn't replicate in Batman Vs Superman: Dawn Of Justice either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while The Death Of Superman film really might be the better adaptation of the story as a whole then this film interms of telling a really more condensed version of the story then this film is still a really good adaptation so much so that it made ten million American dollars in home media sales when this film was first released all the back in 2007 as that's just how good that this version of this truly iconic story really is 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 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all pf 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 the official DC Movies fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very film that I used in this very review 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 being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Wonder Woman 2009 Film Review

When people think of the films that Wonder Woman has been the solo star of nine times out of ten there going to be thinking about the Gal Gadot as those are the most popular films. Yet not alot of people realise or even remember for that fact that there was a solo Wonder Woman movie before Gal Gadot picked up the Lasso Of Truth with it being that movie that i'm going to be talking about today and so then join me as I review the film that has seemingly been forgotten about by alot of people with the film in question being called simply just "Wonder Woman" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when Ares escaping from his prison on Themyscira it's up Princess Diana to leave her home for the first time and with the help of a pilot named Steve Trevor stop the god of war before his plan to gain more power before it's far to late. 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 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 doing a good job of not telling it's story but also in giving us Wonder Woman's origin story as well as here it is something that is directly tied into the main plot instead of it being something that happens just because of the fact that the makers of the film felt like that they had to do it and yet while this films plot is rather suitably epic for a film it's also something that does feel undercooked and half baked as well as there are character arcs that not only come out of nowhere but when they do happen there not elaborated on nor ever mentioned ever again thus making them feel like something that would have been better served if they weren't in the film at all with even the forced romance between Diana and Steve feeling out of place in this film as well 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 Keri Russell as Princess Diana /  Diana Prince / Wonder Woman and Nathan Fillion as Steve Trevor. Also starring in this film is Alfred Molina as Ares , Rosario Dawson as Artemis , Marg Helgenberger as Hera , Oliver Platt as Hades , Virginia Madsen as Hippolyta , Skye Arens as The Little Girl , John DiMaggio as Deimos and The Homeless Man , Julianne Grossman as Etta Candy , Vicki Lewis as Persephone , David McCallum as Zeus , Jason Miller as Thrax and The Gang Leader , Rick Overton as Slick and The President Of The United States (uncredited) , this films voice director Andrea Romano as President's Advisor , Tara Strong as Alexa and this films producer Bruce Timm as An Attacker.

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. Which is something that is both shocking and yet also not all that shocking as well as it's shocking due to the fact that alot of this films actors aren't that well known at the very least from the point of view from the mainstream audience but yet at the same time it's not all that surprising as those of us who have followed the works of say Nathan Fillion and Tara Strong and Keri Russell to name but a few will know just how good that these actors are and not only are they really good in this film which is mostly due to the fact that Andrea Romano was a great voice director but it's also because of the fact that alot of this films actors are a bunch of really good actors in there own right and while people are only just now starting to see just how good Rosario Dawson is as an actor thanks to her role on The Mandalorian here she knocks it out of the park as Artemis with the same thing also being true for pretty much all of this films actors as well with this films acting really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this films actors really have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance really 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 film.

Doing the animation for this film is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Moi Animation Studio. 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 with all of this films animation looking alot better then alot of other direct to DVD movies that are being released  today with that being due to the fact this film was made by people who are legends in the realm of animation and aren't just getting there start in the animation industry with it really being helped by the fact that all of the characters have these rather simplistic animation designs with the animation itself having a good dose of anime inspiration which was something that was also a common thing in alot of animation from 2009 and yet because of the fact that it's a movie we also get alot of really stunning scenery as well and while the animation in this film will never look like that it was meant to be a theatrically released feature length film it is something that does look a whole more better and well more thought out then what it really had any right to as by all rights this films animation should have looked really bad and yet the very fact that it doesn't and still holds up even almost twenty years later does go to show that DC put the right people in charge of creating there direct to DVD animated movie lineup. 

Not only is this film alot more gory then alot of the other direct to DVD DC animated films out there but it's also one of there more violent animated films as well. Simply due to the fact that we see not one but two characters gets there heads cut clean off during the course of the film but we also see quite alot of bleed as well and these are things that simply just wouldn't be done in this film if it was being made today as Warner Bros would either just straight up cancel the film all together or if they did release the film then it would "offend" people who don't like seeing mature things in something that is seen as being something that's for little kids and yet it's those exact things that help it stand apart from all of the other DC animated films out there as if this film did play it say and feature no blood and cut away just before we saw either Thrax or Ares get there heads cut off then it would make the film feel tame and like it's playing it to safe and yet by the very fact that this film has characters that are from a time where seeing people get there heads cut off was an every day thing and there for really wouldn't know all that better it would lose the film of everything that makes it stand out as even the fact that it's directed by a woman and starring a female superhero in the leading role are things that we can now see in other movies and TV shows and it would there for cause this film to blend in with all of the other films where as with those included it helps to make the film stand out as those things are things that you don't typically get to see in alot of animated movies or TV show for that matter either and yet here they both are in this film.

While it would be super easy to make Princess Diana a pretty bada*s character which is something that the film still does however they also oddly enough make her mother Queen Hippolyta just as bada*s as her daughter is. As Hippolyta not only straight up calls out Steve Trevor alot of the time which granted does come from a place of hatred towards all men but is still pretty awsome to see in alot of the films big battle scenes she's the one that's leading the charge even having a joke with Artemis as well with it even being her that cuts of the head of her own son not because of the fact that she hates him altho she most likely does but it's due to the fact that it was the only thing that she could have done to stop him from fighting and killing all of her own people with her even not only fighting Ares at the start of the film but also more then holding her own and keeping up with him as well and while she does kind of take a back seat in the films third act battle which does make alot of sense she still does manage to take a number of the undead as well all of which are things that do combine to make her a pretty bada*s of a character in this film and it's all things that were also oddly enough included in the 2017 Wonder Woman film as well which does make you wonder if the makers of that film watched this film and while her leadership does leave a little to be desired as she let her own hatred of man cloud her judgement and allow her people to cut themselves of from the world of man for many centauries when push does come to shove she is a really skilled fighter who is more then willing to what's right even if it hurts her as a person.

While alot of this film is indeed really good there are some things that do let it down like Ares for example. While granted he's done miles better in this film then he was in the 2017 film he's still not all that memorable of a villain which is something that does make sense as back in 2009 nobody in Hollywood be it Marvel or DC knew how t make a good movie villain and while that doesn't excuse the fact that he's not that memorable of a character in this film he is still done miles better in this film then in the 2017 film as he actually looks menacing in this film and while he doesn't really have a plan per se it could also be argued that that is in keeping with his character as all he wants to do is cause endless wars to feed his own power an ambition something that he does try to do in this film but at the same time tho it would have made all the more menacing if he did have an end goal in mind as that would then give us the audience a reason to want to boo him and to want to see Diana and Steve succeed out of the fact that they are are the heroes and he's the main villain and seeing him have to actually seduce people to get what he wants is an interesting aspects of his character but sadly like of things in this film it's one that's not really developed as well as it could have been and as a result of that is the fact that's something that does come across as being really underdeveloped when it is something that could have made the film alot more interesting by having him try to seduce either Steve or Diana and get either of them to join his cause.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirteen minuets and thirty nine seconds. Which is something that does both work for and against the film it works for the film in the fact that it's a really solid for this film to have and the fact that this film really does have more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time but at the same time tho it also works again the film in the fact that it means that alot of the films ideas become undercooked and half baked because of the fact that this film has to rush along to the next plot point more often then not doing so without feeling earned and it means that scenes like the one with Persephone telling Hippolyta that while yes she did indeed save them from evil men she also robbed them of the chance to have children and to experience happiness of there own which whilst it is a great scene would have meant more if we we saw more of a build up to it and it's like that with alot of the characters own character arc like the fact that Artemis and Alexa don't really agree on the fact that Alexa would rather read books then fight only for Artemis to suddenly chose to read a book at the end of the movie again with no pay off and it's also the films villain that does suffer as well as he comes across as being not a very memorable character and all these are things that could have been fixed if the film did have just a slightly longer running time 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 al honesty I 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 this films action being where this film shines the best as not only is it where the animation truly does come alive making each and every blow not only look painful but leap of the screen as well but it's also where we get to some really creative fight scenes and some really cool looking visuals as well with the best fight in the whole entire being the entire third act fight as we get to see a really small Wonder Woman take on a giant sized Ares with her just hitting him in the face and him using all of hos godly powers to beat her up in ways that he wouldn't have been able to do centauries ago and as  result of the fact that we get to see Diana have to use her smarts as well as her brute strength and Lasso Of Truth just to keep up with him with there fight also being tied into the fact that Steve has to stop a missile from blowing up Themyscira and thus giving Ares more power and it's only when Steve blow up the missile that Ares sent to blow up Themyscira in the most comic book way possible with invisible missiles that only then is Diana finally able to beat Ares and when in the fact that the rest of the surviving Amazons have come to help be fighting Ares own undead army then it is something that really does make that third act fight a really good action set piece in it's own right in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall whilst the 2017 live action solo Wonder Woman might be more well known that doesn't mean that it was the first solo film for the character and it's not even the first solo live action film for the character as there was a TV movie in 70's that starred Cathy Lee Crosby that does technically have that honor with his film being the characters first solo animated feature film and one that is still a wonderful film even all of these years later in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then iive talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad thigs 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 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally sued un 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 DC Extended Universe fandom wiki page , the official DC Movies fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very film that I used in this very review being the really great the official DC Movies 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 film with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official DC Movies fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.