Superman: The Animated Series: A Little Piece Of Home Review

When people think of classic nineties DC shows they usually think of Batman: The Animated Series and rightfully so as that show both was and still is really good. Yet people seem to forget about the face that DC had another animated show on at the same time as Batman with the show in question also featuring ironically enough another classic DC Comics character and it's 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 introduces Kryptonite into the DCAU canon with the episode in question being called simply just "A Little Piece Of Home" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is Superman stops two low level thief's from robbing Lex's museum he finds that he gets weak around one object something which Lex also sees with Superman having to do anything he can to get the object away from Lex for good. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episodes 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. The episodes plot was a decent enough plot for this show as this show was never as good as Batman: TAS was interms of its plots but at the same time tho the plot did feel weak almost as if it wasn't strong enough to support an entire episode of a show. Heck this is something that you very easily could see being the plot of one of the 1940's Superman cartoons as it would have worked alot more better in that format but as the plot for a full twenty two minuet episode it's not that good with th plot at times being forgettable almost as if you have to force yourself to remember what the plot of the episode is meant to be in the first place as while the episode does indeed focus alot on the plot and does make it feel as fleshed out as they could have done the plot itself is one that could have been alot more better even more when you take into account that they are introducing a key part of the Superman mythos with the plot of this episode not really being really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Tim Daly as Clark Kent / Superman , Dana Delany as Lois Lane and Clancy Brown as Lex Luthor. Also starring in this episode is John Rubinstein as Professor Peterson , John Garry as Hanes , Brad Garrett as Bibbo and 'Neato' Coralli , Tom Wilson as Joey , Scott Valentine as Sam Coralli , Lisa Edelstein as Mercy Graves , Victor Brandt as Professor Hamilton , voice acting legend Tress MacNeille as The Tour Guide , The Old Woman and The Waitress and Yuji Okumoto as The Security Guard.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episodes 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 episode does gave some really good acting in it is something that isn't all that shocking as alot of the DCAU shows are known for having some really good acting in them with his mainly due to the fact that this episode does have some really good actors in it with them all giving us some really good performances in the episode be it from Tal Daly being pitch perfect as Superman to Clancy Brown being really creepy as Lex Luthor bottom line being that this episodes acting is of a really high quality. With the best actor in this whole entire episode being Clancy Brown as Lex Luthor as he is just so creepy and so evil sounding as this truly despicable character that you do end up really loving his performance and heck he pretty much is THE voice of the character as he is just so good in this episode with him making every single line be as evil as it possibly could be even when he's out in public and trying to come across as being a good guy he still sounds evil. With the acting that's in this very 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 pf 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 animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at TMS-Kyokuichi Corporation. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episodes 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 episode was in all honesty not that bad. It really is hard to judge this episodes animation as outside of a few shots with both a piece of paper and the Kryptonite there's not really all that much that stands in this episode from an animation perspective there's no unique looking camera shots and the episode doesn't do anything cool with it's characters are backgrounds. Whilst yes this granted this is something that could also be the case or any episode of Batman: TAS as well but there for the more weaker animated episodes they usually had a stronger plot to make up for it whereas here pairing a weaker plotted episode with weaker animation just makes the whole episode look very kid friendly and not in a fun way and while that is something that was always going to be the case as it afterall a show about Superman there still needed to be some level of thought and love put into making the episodes animation look better and while the animation in this episode isn't half bad heck it's also more better then the animation in alot of other kids shows from the time it does feel like that it' lacking that extra special something with the characters not having any fluid movements to them outside of one single shot in an action scene and there isn't alot of detail put into any of the episodes backgrounds when this is something that Batman: TAS almost went out of it's way to do.

As was stated at the very start of this review this is the episode that does introduce Kryptonite to the wider DCAU. With this being something that does kind of complete the whole set up for the show moving forward as obviously the first three episodes were all about telling the origin of Superman and his first fight with Lex Luthor with the episode four not really adding in any of the Superman lore to the show which is something that does make this episode feel ore like it should have been the fourth episode as then it would have carried on the theme of adding in something from the mythos of Superman and fully completing setting up things for the show rather than having a break in doing that in episode four. Altho with this being said it really doesn't matter where this episode falls in the series running order as outside of the set up of Kryptonite there's nothing in this episode that plays a major part in the show itself with this episode to be frank here feeling more like it was a filler episode that was just there to fill out the series order as the episode itself just isn't that good and isn't that fun as the more plot driven episodes of the show are, the idea of the Lex being obsessed with getting Kryptonite and using it to in his own way control Superman is a god idea and the episode does do a good enough job of explaining just what it is to the none Superman fan that you do end up kind of forgiving the fact that not alot of stuff actually happens in this episode yet at the same time tho one can't help but feel like that this episode is missing something or that if this episodes plot was instead apart of a much larger arc that it would have been alot more better.

While the episode does only stick to showing us the effects of Green Kryptonite on Superman which is understandable as that's the most common color. It still would have been nice if at the end when we see the diggers looking for more of te stuff that instead of seeing a blank colored piece of Kryptonite that we saw something like Red Kryptonite or Black Kryptonite as while the none fan will get what these colors mean and fully understand why there dangerous to Superman the fans of the character will understand both of those things and a show like this was always going to attract both the new fan and the hardcore fan and while yes it is always a fine line between balancing what the old fan would love and what the new fan needs Superman is such a popular character in the first place that you can get away with having more deep cut things from the Superman lore and out them into one episode of this show. Therefor you could have had more then one colored version of Kryptonite show up in an episode and both groups of fans will fully understand what it means if it's just the basic danger and it would have given the next episode that it appears in whatever episode that may be a good hook as now we know that Lex has people actively looking for more of the stuff and while there is nothing wrong with just having the one coloured Kryptonite as again the new fan won' always understand what the different colors will do to Superman and therefor sticking to the more well known green was a smart move on the part of the makers of this episode it still would have been fun to see what they would have done if they had more then the one color show up in this episode no matter how briefly it is and it would have given the new fan more of s reason to feel concerned for Superman the next time that they see it.

Lex in this episode was a really good villain as we do see him outsmart Superman alot of the time which is something that is true to his character. As Lex should always be the smartest person in the room and therefor showing him outwit and outsmart Superman does work really nicely as does the fact that while we don't get to see what he does to people who don't do as he says it's pretty obvious due to ruthless Marcy is that anyone who betrays him is in for some serious pain as that how far he thinks in advance that he thinks and while he doesn't really have a plan as he doesn't know that Kryptonite hurts Superman until a few minuets into the episode this is something that could be forgiven due to the fact that it hadn't been introduced until this episode. The thing that does let hm down tho is the fact that he gives up far to easily whereas Lex would have a plan in place just incase Superman and Lois where able to find away for Superman to fight to the giant robot dinosaur and heck Lex would have been able to work out that incasing it in led would prevent or at the very least slow down the effects that it has on Superman as he does have alot of the best scientists working for him and yet the fact that he doesn't just makes him look dumb as both Lois and Superman didn't even need to ask if that was the case they were just straight up told it and while this was of course done to get that piece of information to us the audience in context of the show it does nothing for Lex as a character, while alright fair enough there was no way for the makers of this show to get that piece of information across without making either Lois and Superman or Lex look really bad and in this regard making Lex look bad does make sense as he is the villain but in saying this his is the villain the person we are meant to be routing against and if e got to see Superman work it out during the final fight then it would have made Superman look all the more stronger as a character.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty one minuets and thirty one seconds. This is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this show and while the episode does feel like it needed to be that long this is an episode really could have been a five minuet short film as when you boil the episode down to what it really needs that running time then becomes more of a burden as we didn't need the scene in the diner near the start of the episode as the episodes opening fight with Superman already hit home that it was these rocks that were causing him to fall ill and therefor to hit that point home just felt pointless and we didn't need alot of the fight with the bad guys in the sky either as nothing all that interesting happens during that portion of the episode this is despite the fact that this episode really does have the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place. This episode also really doesn't use it's running time all that well as the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot this is something that it very easily could have done just by giving us scenes with the scientists explaining the effects on Superman as while we do see Superman fall ill every single time he is around the rock it still would have made sense in universe to have it be explained why he does that and we could have had scenes that add to the plot with the makers of this episode being more focused on making Lex look and sound creepy then they were in giving us a well developed plot. This is something that does also effect the episodes character development as none of the episodes characters het any kind of character development in this episode and whilst this is something that does make alot of sense as not only is a kids TV show but it's also very early on in the shows run and therefor it doesn't make sense for the characters to get any kind of character development but it still would have been nice if the groundwork was layed for them to get character development somewhere down the line with the makers of this episode being more focused on hitting the same plot point then they were in giving the 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. It's fair to say that the action in this episode is the best part of the episode as that's when the episode not only gets interesting but also fun to watch as we get to see Superman trying to outwit not only Lex but the people that he hires to help to him take down Superman in some fun and creative ways with it being during the fight scene in the sky where the animation gets fluid with Superman breaking out of the ropes which looked really good so good infact that its used in the shows opening intro. With the best action scene in the whole entire episode being the final fight as we get see Superman and Lois fight a giant robot dinosaur being controlled by Lex Luthor which is a really fun scene as they are trapped in the room with Kryptonite and therefor a more weakened Superman has to try and defeat this seemingly unbeatable foe which is something that does add tension to the scene and it makes the part where Lois uses her paper basketball skills to throw into one the lead lined pots with it only being then that Superman is able to defeat Lex with the whole scene being a really good action scene and while yes it is also a really tame action scene but given just how tame the episode is it's also something that does fit in really well with the episode with the rest of the episodes action also being really good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this is an episode that is fully hard to judge as while it is a very tame episode given the fact that Superman is more light hearted then Batman is it does make sense that his animated series or an episode of that animated series also be more tame then anything that Batman: TAS did in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and a swell as all of the bad things that are 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 7 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the im 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 Amazon . Co . Uk 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.

My Top 5 Best And Worst Films Of The Year 2025 Version

It's that time of year again where we look back on the year that's been and well since we have a little tradition over here. That being every single year I go through what were my personal best and worst films of the year and well this year there is a lot of strong competition for the best film of the year if you've been following the various versions of this post you'll know what the rules are but just to make it clear the rules are that the film has to have had a UK release date of 2025 and I have to have seen the film so enjoy.

WORST

5) Wolf Man 2025

For some odd reason Hollywood really liked to give us a bunch of bad horror remakes and sequels that's when they weren't giving us a bunch of bad horror films that are based off of popular characters. With this film being a good example of just how bland alot of the modern horror remakes are as to be blunt this films has nothing to do with the original film outside of the name and that's really it as the film is more focused on giving us a father and daughter drama then it is in giving us a well done werewolf film as there are large portions of the film where nothing happens which is something that would be fine if the makers of the film bothered to make it's characters good or even interesting for that matter but they didn't do that which is something tat does leave us with a bland a boring film that did have some good horror pedigree behind it and even then that goodwill wasn't enough to make the film good as the film failed at doing alot of the most basic things done well and while the film does try to do something new and different by focusing the film around a father and a daughter that's not what you want to see in a Wolf Man movie rather you want to see some good werewolf action something that can't be possible due to the fact that alot of the film is set at night with alot of the film being at best very hard to see which might be a good thing given just how boring that this film looks as this is a film that looks very visually dull to look at with the acting being slightly bit better then what it would it really should have been as by all rights this films acting should have been really bad and yet you can tell that this films actors are doing there best to turn in a good performance.

While this film might be bland and boring to look at the film does have some good looking werewolf effects. With the werewolf action in the films third act being not that bad either with this being due to the fact that the film does spend alot of time in building up tension and in making you feel for the person that's turning into a were wolf but none of that matters if the films characters are lackluster which is something that's sadly the case here as while the films does do a good job of building up tension the film should have gone the extra mile and made itself still entertaining to watch as then we the audience would have a reason to keep on watching the film in the first place and yet as things stand it would be understandable if people did check out of this film before the third act as the rest of the film is just that dull and boring to watch and with this film being a remake of a classic Universal monster one which granted isn't as well known as alot of the others Universal themselves should have put more effort into giving us a better remake and while getting the writer and director of The Invisible Man 2020 to fill those same roles for this film was a step in he right direction asking him to do the same thing with this film that he did with that film was never going to work as you can find different ways to tell the story of The Invisible Man as along as you keep the concept in it you can't really do that with this film as the core concept of the original film really is a key part of what made the original work so well in the first place and therefor this film really needed to be treated differently then what The Invisible Man 2020 was.

4)Star Trek: Section 31

For some strange reason even tho the casts of the last three Star Trek movies have been trying for years to get a fourth film made. Paramount instead chose to make a film spin off of a Star Trek that not alot of Star Trek fans actually like and while basing a film off of what is more then likely the most popular character to come from Star Trek: Discovery what doesn't make sense is to make a movie from that show when you have a perfectly good set of actors who have already starred in three Star Trek movies to begin with all of whom are begging Paramount Pictures to pick a script for the fourth film and get that fourth film made in the first place which they very easily could have done as they have alot of scripts for that fourth movie being worked on and yet they instead chose to make a made for TV movie based off of a show that caused alot of division amongst the Star Trek fanbase which makes no sense it would make sense if Star Trek: Discovery was popular enough to warrant a movie being made about but it was never that popular in the first place with it only just scrapping by and only just getting renewed alot of the time and while it's not needed to watch that show to understand this movie you should at least have a basic knowledge of the Emperor Philippa Georgiou character which even then really isn't all that needed to watch this film and to understand what's exactly going on in this film either.

To be frank this film felt like it was put together in five minuets as it's just this cheap and lazy looking of a film. With this film not really having that much working for it outside of the fact that it stars Michelle Yeoh and that's really it as there's really nothing about this film that makes it stand out and yet Paramount have spent YEARS trying to make a Star Trek 4 on the big screen whereas here it felt like that just said yes to the first script that they got and to this films credit it did start out life as a TV show and perhaps that's where it should have stayed as in a feature film format the film is all other the pace and a mess and yet if the film did stay as a show then it would have had the chance to further develop it's characters and it's story instead of just leaving them effectively as blank pieces of paper that are about as interesting as a blank of wood with it being made crystal clear that the people that are in charge of Star Trek have no interest in making shows that people actually like and are instead just throwing a bunch of ideas at the wall and seeing what sticks when if they listened to the fans they would tell them right away what it is they want to see in a new Star Trek film and TV show but that would actually mean showing respect to the fans and that's something that sadly modern Hollywood has forgotten as there more focused on blaming the fans for not going to see there bad movies and not watching there bad TV shows and yet the few times that Hollywood does listen we get gold like for example the redesign of Sonic in the 2020 film and now Hollywood is scared to ask the fans what they want for no good reason whatsoever.

3) I Know What You Did Last Summer 2025 AND Smurfs

That's right we actually have two films in the number three slot for the worst film of the year as there both equally bad in different ways. As while Smurfs put more thought and effort into letting you know that Rihanna was in the movie then in actually promoting the movie but had a decent plot for a little kids film I Know What You Did Last Summer 2025 whilst it did put more thought and effort into it's marketing took was already a blatant knock off of the Scream franchise and made a knock off of Scream 2022 except this film spat on the legacy of the last two theatrically released movies by turning one of the heroes into one the villains in a twist no one wanted all for no good reason whatsoever and while yes there are some good things to be found in both films like for example the animation in Smurfs was pretty decent and the kills in I Know What You Did Last Summer were pretty cool just because you have cool kills and good looking animation doesn't mean that you have a good film as you still need to have the basic things done well for the film to be good and that's sadly where both films fail and fail hard with both of this films even being really forgettable as well so much so that i'm willing to bet that alot of reading this post straight up forgot that both of these films came out this year and I can say that because I was one of them as that's how little of an impact that both of these films left on there audiences as there nothing more then generis trash that's not even trying to be something other then generic trash and when the makers of both of these films make is crystal clear to us the audience that there not even going to try and make a good film then they shouldn't be surprised when there film gets terrible reviews and flops at the box office.

While there are alot of good thing to be found in both of these films there are sadly alot more negative things to be found in both of these films as well. Like for example the acting in both films whilst you can tell that the actors in both of those films are indeed trying there all just not right for there respective characters with even Rihanna continuing the tradition of singers that can't act being in a movie in a leading role with the thing that let Smurfs down the most was it's poor attempt at marketing as there was next to nothing interms of marketing done for that movie and while that wouldn't have stopped the film from being a bad film it would have helped to get a few more eyes on the film and thus earn a little bit more at the box office and yet there was nothing for it and therefor people didn't go to see it and while the I Know What You Did Last Summer movies have always been bad movies they've also been films that you can find some level of enjoyment out of and yet here in this film there was none of that as the twist ruins not only this film but also the other two theatrically released movies as well as they spit on the legacy of those films and yet if the makers of that film really wanted to be like Scream 2022 and have something be done to one of the legacy characters then why not just straight up copy it and have either Ray or Julie be killed off by the new killer as then your at least embracing the fact that your Scream knock off movie and are not afraid of that fact and heck even by doing that your not disrespecting what's came before it nor it's legacy characters and are then also telling us the audience that now any of the main cast of characters can now get killed off with Smurfs all the makers of that film needed to was include some funny jokes and actually market the film and that's it.

2) Snow White 2025

This film commits the biggest sin that alot of these live action Disney remakes seem to commit and that's by having the exact same plot as the original film say what you will about both The Jungle Book and 2016 and Alice In Wonderland 2010 but they at the very least had different plots to the original films or added enough things to there own plot that it makes them feel new and different again where as here nothing new is added to the plot of the film to make this films version of the plot interesting or even worth watchin for that matter with the films plot elements playing out the exact same way and in the exact same order which does make this film rather pointless not only to watch but also to make as well as why would you want to watch a lesser version of a story when you can just watch the better version of that exact same story as everything about this films plot is just the exact same as the plot of the original film which is something that does make you wonder why we the audience should pay to see this film when we can either load up Disney+ or put in our DVD or Blu-Ray of the original film and get the same plot only done because it was made by people that actually wanted to make a good film as it was clear from months before this film even came out that this film was going to be trainwreck and while the film is still as bad as you'd think that it was going to be alot of that isn't down to the films actors it's down to the films writers , directors and producers as they had the power from day one to make changes to the films script and demand that it be better but chose not to and yet none of them got the hate for this film bombing rather it was Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot who don't get me wrong are bad in this film but there not the ones that should have been getting the hate for this film being as bad as it was in the first place.

While alot of the other films in this post have at least some qualities in them that make them worth watching. This film on the other hand has nothing that makes it worth watching as everything that's good about the film are things that could also be found in the 1937 original film with this film just being lazy and uncreative and yet Disney not only threw alot of money at this film so much so that the film was rumored o cost anyway around $300 million dollars but they also threw a boat load of marketing at it as well which is still a good thing but when your film costs alot of money to make and you have CGI that is enough to give people nightmares then it makes you wonder where all the money went to in this film as you don't get to see any of it on screen say what you will about the films that are number one or the ones that are joint third in this post but you at least see where the money went in those films here you don't see it as the film isn't pretty to look at Rachel Zegler despite her having a really good singing voice in her own right just look at the remake of West Side Story as proof of that is auto toned to the high heavens in this film with the film not being helped by all of the production troubles that plagued the film be they Peter Dinklage getting so upset that he himself wasn't cast in the movie that he got several actors all of whom are little people fired from the movie as he convinced Disney to instead remove the dwarfs as characters only for the for the fans to get upset about what Disney was doing and demand that they put back in only now there CGI as the film was pretty much done at this point to anything that Rachel Zegler has said online all of these things and more combine to make a film that is not going to be remembered anytime soon.

10 The Works Of Writer Harry Boxley

Really it was hard picking just one film to be the worst film of the year as alot of the really bad films that I saw this year whilst they were bad you could at least see the effort that went into making them. Where as with the films that are written by writer Harry Boxley you really can't. As out of the countless films that he's released this year alone i've managed to see and review EIGHT of them with his films ranging from Piglet , Hook , Fairest Of Them All , Wickedness and Mouseboat Massacre among many others and they are all really painfully bad and yet he has the gall to call himself an award winning writer and yet his turning in bad script after bad script it would be one thing if one of his films was bad as then you could argue that he was just having an off day and that he tried to make the story work but he just couldn't do it which would be fair enough plenty of people who have wrote good movies have also written the odd bad one as well but when a huge amount of the films that he wrote this year are bad and predictable movies then the problem clearly isn't the story of the film it's the person writing the script and heck his films are so bad that I now straight away know that i'm in for a bad movie the second that I see his name appear in the films credits or on the films IMDB page as he's just that bad of a writer with his films being so bad that it was hard to pick just one to be the worst film of the year so by default because there all equally bad and yet he's got at least four movie due out next year two of which are as of this writing being filmed and a further two are in post production so it does look like that we will be seeing more of him on next years list as well.

Alot of the film that Harry Boxley wrote this year all have one thing in common that being that they all based off of beloved characters. Heck even Wickedness has a poster design and colour scheme that is designed to confuse people into buying that movie when they what they really wanted to buy was either Wicked or Wicked: For Good and yet he still gets to make these movies all of which are really bad and while granted on some of them you can tell that they trying there best to work with the small budget that these films do typically have with even Wickedness having some small amount of VFX in it but there all just bland scripts so much so that to call them generic horror movies would be a n insult to generic horror movies as then you can at least tell that there's some effort to make those films good and yet here there there's none of that in any of these films with it feeling like that he had about five minuets per film to write a script and so he just wrote the first thing that came to his mind and turned in what should have been his first draft of the script as it's final draft as there no way that he can turn in this level of a bad scripts and still be called an award winning writer now granted he might get called that when he has more then five minuets to turn in a script but when you have several films released in the same year all of which make it look like that your a really bad writer then you really do need to reconsider having that be the first thing that comes up on your Google bio as it just makes you look like a completely lazy person who doesn't know how to turn in a decent film script.

Best

5) Weapons

Just to be clear the entire best of lost was so hard to put together as really any film including this one could have right fully taken the top spot and as such some very tough choices had to be made so you won't be seeing Avatar: Fire And Ash in this post. With this films plot being just so good as it was actually something new , different and original which means that we the audience have no idea just where this films plot is even going because it's something that we really havn't seen done before now with the plot of this film being one that is perhaps the best plot for a newly released film this year regardless of it's a horror film or not because it is something that does keep you invested all throughout with it's slow burn approach which yes granted could be seen as being grating for some but here it does serve a purpose as it adds to the plot of the film by making us wonder just what is going to happen next and because of that we as an audience do get more of a chance to become invested in the films plot as simple as it is but in saying that tho the plot of this film could also be viewed as being unfocused as for alot of the time we don't really get to find out all that much about the kidnappings but at the same time tho it could be argued that that makes this films plot all the more scarier as now we have to use our imagination which could make thing all the more scarier then what they actually are as by all accounts this films plot should have been really bad and yet for one reason or another the makers of this film managed to pull it all together and make a film that is not only wholly original in concept but also one that does prove that people in Hollywood still do know how to make not only good films original films but also original films in general.

This film along with Good Boy and one more film that WILL be showing up in this post made it perfectly clear that this was a shockingly good year for horror films. As while yes we we did get alot of bad horror films as well those where very few and far between with the year instead giving us films like Weapons and Good Boy which have wholly original plots and ideas to them and guess what they both turned out to be really good as the makers of those films knew that they had to create something good in order for their film to land they way that they did with this film being a really good example of that as while it burrowed elements from other films like the idea of telling the film in chapters it also made those ideas feel fresh and new by ending each of them on a cliffhanger much like you would end a chapter in a book an while yes granted this film could be seen as being boring at times as not alot does happen to advance the films admittedly thin plot the film is more bothered in creating tension and keeping us in a tense place so that when something that's genuinely creepy does infact happen we feel it alot more and while the makers of this film could have spent more time on giving us memorable characters it really didn't have to do that as the reason we stayed watching this film wasn't for the characters it was for the mystery and while the mystery of why these kids ran away in the first place isn't built up all that well as it's really only in the films final chapter when we get anything surrounding the films mystery the film does do a good enough job of making us want to know more about what's actually happening with the film even having plenty of really good an unique kills to it as well all of which do work well in the film.

4) Superman AND The Fantastic Four: First Steps

This was also a fairly solid year for comic book movies with Marvel proving that the MCU isn't quite dead yet and Warner Bros launching it's DCU as well. With both The Fantastic Four: First Steps and Superman being really good films as they both managed to capture the tone and the spirit of what it was that made those characters so well be loved in the first place and while weather or not these films were that good depends on who you ask as the MCU lovers will say that First Steps is good and that Superman is a bad movie and some of the DCU fans will say it's the opposite that's true with the few remaining Zack Snyder fans hating on both movies the ones things for sure they both managed to prove that if you stick with what made the characters work so well in the comics then people will still love them in the movie as this is the best Superman movie that we've had for years now and this is the best Fantastic Four film ever and while yes granted both films do have alot of flaws to them no one is ever going to deney that but both films also have plenty of things going for them as well be it the CGI , the acting or the action there's plenty of things to like in both of these films but with this being said tho there are things that don't work in both films like for example the plot in Superman is a little bit on the weak side not so much that it becomes hard to tell just what the main plot of the film is even meant to be in the first place but it's enough for you to notice and with the fantastic four the films plot moves to fast for us us the audience to rally take any of it in so much so that by the time we have caught up with he film the film is good as well almost over.

While there are plenty of bad things to be found in both of this films both films are a case of there's more good to be found in both of them then bad. As you can tell right away that First Steps is going almost out of it's way t make sure that you know that this is a different universe to the mainline MCU something which is going to appease alot of people given he fact that in recent years the MCU has been sinking faster then the Titanic with this film fully embracing it's more sixties looking aesthetic as we get to see the characters both talk and act like people that are from that time period all whilst still being a film that's vert much in the MCU. With Superman we get to see the closest thing to what alot of people think Superman should be like and act like as for years now we've seen Superman be this depressing person and that's just now who Superman is as he's the kind of the character that does always look for the best in everyone and will always try to do the right thing no matter what the cost is and that's something that Zack Snyder didn't give us rather he instead chose to give us a Superman that's much like Batman and while being this depressing kind of character works for Batman as that's who he is it's not something that works for Superman and James Gunn did understand this and while that might make alot of the Zack Snyder fans unhappy it's also something that's true as if you want prove read alot of the classic Superman comics and then watch the classic Christopher Reeve Superman movie before watching this as this version of the character is pretty much how the Christopher Reeve version of Superman was.

3) Sinners

In Hollywood it's a very rare thing to find a film that is wholly original any more as alot of modern hollywood films are either remakes , sequels or prequels. As such it was something of a shock when this film came along and was not only an original film but was also a hit film to boot so much so it forced Hollywood into burying this film as it was getting so many rave reviews from critics and was making alot of money at the box office with it being very easy to see why as this is a film that is just so good to watch and while it's not hard to see that this film is a fully original idea as it does take some inspiration from From Dusk Till Dawn the film itself has enough original elements in it that it makes you wonder why Hollywood aren't producing more original films and why the people that are doing these fully original films are getting there films buried by the major studios so much so that you have to look really hard be it on DVD and Blu-Ray or on streaming websites to find fully original pieces of film as there just that hard to find and yet this film proved that original films can be hit films if you have the right creative making it but they won't do that as that will force Hollywood to be creative and to try new things and that's something that they are scared of doing as they'd rather just give us what we know we like and want then give us something that we don't know we like and want and while it's hard to say if this film is the best horror film of the year as both Good Boy and Weapons are also very strong contenders for that title what can be said is that this is a film that got alot of and deserved all of the praise that it got for being just that damn good of a film in the first place.

This film is one that is damned new perfect with it only really really being held back by a few things and that's it. With those being he fact that the film does take a good while to get going which is something that wouldn't be a bad thing where it not for the fact that the leading up to that the film has the characters do nothing that's all that important to the plot of the film and while this is done to set up the characters and the world that they live in there could have been a way to do that whilst still adding things to the plot of the film like for example we could have seen the Twins run into the people who would get turned into vampires early on in the film just to set up the fact that there could be some tension there between the two groups of people something which there would be anyway due to the time that this film does take place in in the first place with another thing being the fact that the film does spoil the twist of the film in it's trailers when this sis something that would have been best kept hidden from us the audience much like what Marvel sometimes does with there trailers as that is something that would have made the fact that is actually a vampire movie be all the more surprising as we the audience would have had the time to get to know and maybe even like these characters in the first place and now we have to see them take on creatures that aren't the easiest to defeat in the first place and while the film is still a really good film in it's film heck it's the best horror film to come out this year which is really saying something it's those little things that would have made it a great film to watch and also one that would have made it even more popular then what it already is in the first place.

2) Wicked: For Good

While it is shocking to see this film placed above Sinners what did it even tho there both really good films in their own right. Was the fact that this film had more of a lead up with it's story and the fact that it was telling one long story over the course of two films meant that the overall plot could have more room to breathe and yet whilst this film isn't an original film at all due to the fact that it's both a sequel film and as is based off of both a book and broadway stage production it is still a really good film in it's own right and granted it's not as good as the first film was as that film was like catching lightening in a bottle this is one that does really need to be seen on the big screen whereas with Sinners that's more of a film where you can watch it on your TV screen and still get the same expirence whereas with this film you need to see it on the biggest screen possible just so that you can belt out all of the films songs and just enjoy the film with other Wicked fans and while yes this films songs aren't as good as the first films songs were as those songs where more fun the songs in this film feel more moody in a way as there not trying to make you laugh like a song like "Popular" is for example rather there trying to tell you that the characters that you know and love from the first film are in a deeply serious situation that is quite literally life or death for them with the songs reflecting that change and growth with the characters therefor it would have felt out of place for there to be a more comedic song in this film when this is film that really doesn't demand it and while the fans took there love for this film over board with them confusing the continuity for these films with that of The Wizard Of Oz something which does show off how obsessive that these Wicked fans can be that doesn't change the fact that this film is one that is still a really good film in it's own right.

With this films plot being just as fun and as enjoyable as the plot for part one was with this films plot being alot more darker in tone when compared to that of the first film which is something that really does make alot of sense as the characters are now no longer teenagers with the fact that this films plot being more darker also serving as a good way of showing just how epic that this films plot is for the characters and while the plot of this film isn't that strong in the first place that's more due to the fact that the plot was cut into two and therefor of course the plot will come across as being weaker as while there is a natural cut off point for both films it does also make both films plots feel all the more weaker as a result of that but in saying that tho this is a story that really could only have been told in two parts as to do it any differently would risk doing more harm to the plot then good with this films plot being one that could possibly make alot of fans of both the stage adaptation and part one really happy as it does give you all of the things that you'd expect from this film from a plot point of view as both this film and its plot give you everything that you'd want to see in a film that's the second part of a two part film as it does tie up all of the characters plot arcs from the first film in ways that feel natural and true to there characters with the only thing that was keeping this film off of the number one spot being the fact that the songs in this film feel like they were written in a few minuets as they don't add all that much to the plot of the film aren't as well written as the songs from the first film were where as with the songs in the first film it felt like that more time and effort was put into them and that is something that really did show in the final product.

1) F1 / Frankenstein

When I tell you that it was hard to pick just what I thought that the best film of this year I really do mean it with there not even being that much in for both of these films. As both of them are damn near perfect films that do not only try to do something new and original with there characters be it by telling the same story story from two different points of view of view as was the case with Frankenstein or in the case of F1 it quite literally puts you in the drivers seat of an F1 car in a bunch of really tense scenes that work really well with both films being so good despite the fact that one of them is a made for streaming film that very easily could have been a film for a major studio and F1 kind of flew under the rader and really hasn't been talked about since it first came out this is despite the fact that it is a really good film in it's own right with both films having plots that are engaging and that make you want to know more about there characters and in the case of F1 makes you want to be an F1 driver as it does go into great detail about that world and what it takes to make as a driver for F1 and while it could be argued that that film is a bit on the long side as it's almost three hours long it does make up or that by giving us some well done driving scenes that was actually filmed during F1 races and with Frankenstein we get all of the typical flair and love that you expect from a film by Guillermo Del Toro with it being made clear as day that he does have a passion not just for the book that Frankenstein is based off of but also for The Monster himself and while that love for the character could be seen as being a bit typical for him as he does usually show alot of love for monsters it is something that does work for that film as in both the book and the film you are meant to care for The Monster.

The fact that it was hard to chose just what this years best film of the year was is always meant to be a good thing. As it does mean that we had alot of really good films come out in the past year from the likes of Avatar: Fire And Ash to Thunderbolts and even some of the films that did make this list with the two chosen as being join first only being chosen because of the fact that they were a good example of just what it is that Hollywood can do when there really pushed as both films used more practical effects then CGI and both films show that Hollywood does know how to still be creative something that they've seem to have forgotten about and yet when they do give us a film that's filled with creativity and is actually good we get films like F1 and Frankenstein with that being something that always needs to be praised and why Frankenstein wasn't released by a major studio is something that no one well ever know as that is a film that could have made a ton of money for whichever studio chose to release it as it has alot of really bankable names in it and yet for some odd reason it got a very limited two week release before going straight to Netflix where it still got alot of really positive reviews from people that saw it and with F1 that film was a huge risk because of the fact that the sport of F1 isn't as well as say football is for example and therefor there was always the chance that people might not buy into a film surrounding it and yet not only did they go and see it they went and they told over people to go and see it as that's just how good that that film was with it being made clear as day that the makers of both of those films really knew what they were doing and set out to make a film that would not only please them but would also be really good in their own rights as well as that's just how good that both of those films are in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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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.

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