it's a good time to be a DC animation fan we've all been talking about how
good the new Harley Quinn series is and it looked good from the trailers but
this this is a real pleasant surprise I mean the opening credits sequence alone
is so good and while it's not nearly as detailed detailed as the comic book that
it's based on it can't be it's an hour-and-a-half movie versus you know a
longer three-issue miniseries but Superman red Sun is easily one of the
best and certainly the most sophisticated animated movies to come
out of DC animation ever not just recently ever I like it that much
and it actually does justice to the original comic I mean how often does
that happen I'll tell you how often Never
I always watch these animated movies and I go man so many people are gonna watch
this and not read the comic which is so much better but I think this is a good
approximation you should go back and read the comic but you don't have to
with this one it's so good and it also makes you feel even worse so I've been
feeling pretty bad about it so to make me feel even worse about it it's
impressive but that Warner Brothers hasn't done a live-action version of
this story with Henry Cavill he would kill it in fact the comic end now this
film echoes what Matthew Vaughn and Bryan Singer did so successfully with
the x-men creating an alternate timeline or super-powered beings interact with
real-life historical figures cleverly starting from when Superman first
debuted 1938 and going from there through the 1960s Mark Miller is a very
good idea man that's all he does now he's just a professional idea man
I missed the days when he actually did the whole execution but anyway the
results here are even better than with x-men I think because they go even more
into history and you know it's like it's history light with the x-men but here it
was really good I mean if you're a history buff like myself that will add
an even an additional layer of entertainment I also think with the
history elements you could draw parallels to Watchmen and
the red red Sun would have been or could be you never know the Suicide Squad
animated movie led to the Suicide Squad live-action movie but I think that this
could be a great live action HBO max series instead of a movie because then
you could really explore this alternate timeline and I think my favorite element
of this timeline is what's done with the Green Lantern Corps
they've never seemed to me so much like an actual military unit than they do in
this movie good to have you back by the way phil lamarr voicing Jon Stewart and
if someone who's never really got in Green Lantern I really only liked the
blackest night crossover story I thought that was very good but I finally see
their potential I would like and like and seeing them in
this movie too when I finally got the coolness of caps shield and Winter
Soldier or Aquaman in the recent film and boy do I like Elseworlds stories I
really like them and a lot of the fun is seeing your
favorite DC characters in a different light and that's what this is just
chock-full of in fact I watched this with my dad who only read comics as a
kid he doesn't like comics today and he missed the whole Elseworlds trend he
doesn't even know what else world's really is but he was watching this and
when he saw that Lois and Lex were married he literally smiled and
exclaimed out loud that's crazy it was fun I had a really good time watching in
this with him I get my love of comics and history from my dad and he really
liked this movie he loved it and he's not even into animation that's how good
this is but the animation here is very good almost almost as good as the
original Bruce Timm Paul Dini era Tim by the way is an executive producer and on
the extras there's this Phantom Stranger short that he directs and that's a cool
intro in a comic book shop and I'm like I see you behind that comic Bruce Timm I
noticed your hair but it's pretty lame and trying too hard to be adult like oh
look was smoking I mean they smoked a lot in red Sun but I think that's
supposed to be showing what it was like in the time period then but they're
doing a lot of smoking and groovy 70s like hippie stuff and they're like ah
this is not good enough to get away with this so well they're like do you see how
adult this is that's enough I really didn't like that short and
course of course I was like Bruce Timm directed this ah Bruce Timm don't pull
the back too far the curtain back too far on your hero's alright but anyway
the animation for the movie the red Sun movie is good enough that it feels more
like an extension of those beloved works from the past than the more recent DC
animated movies but not to say that some of them haven't been good I've enjoyed
them but nothing's been this good or or as good obviously is the T the Tim Dini
era as I just said with the exception of the new Harlequin show that is so good
watch it the second season is coming it's amazing but interestingly in this
red Sun movie there aren't any incredible action sequences even though
of course it's about superheroes and that's how good it is that it's still
really enjoyable it's a it's more about again exploring this different world
comics wise they do such a good job playing with the Superman mythology and
getting so many famous Superman characters in there but in a different
way I love delay there with Brainiac also exploring history that's great but
also the drama I was so invested I gasped out loud
several times watching this and I felt the Superman versus superior man fight
was particularly well done not so much because of the action it was fine but
because it was so emotional I really liked that and the credit for this
belongs not just to the animation team but the voice cast as well excellent
across the board but the standouts are amy acker as Lois Lane so good diedrich
bader as Lex Luthor it's so funny usually sometimes voices Batman as he
does in the Harley Quinn animated series Vanessa Marshall is Wonder Woman and
particularly Jason Isaacs as Superman I will even kind of forgive him for
creeping me out and that what was the cure for well in
this movie I was like I don't know if I can ever watch or listen to jason isaacs
again and I still thought of that when I saw what I heard him here I was like
that was too creepy but he was really good here I mean he gives communists
Superman real emotion and incredibly nuanced line readings the only weak
point and it's so freakin weak his tenor is strong who's a voice acting legend
but she is so unconvincing as young Superman I'm like who are you kidding
this is a young boy's voice I mean I can't believe
that it actually went to the final product you would think when they heard
it in the editing room they'd be like good lord this is an abomination
we must rerecord all right so there's got to be a little boy around here
somewhere doesn't anyone have any kids who want a
fun cameo also I have to say the character design here is amazing
Superman bred son suit is very well realized I do appreciate black leather
boots and gloves as are the looks for Batman and Wonder Woman from the comic
oh so Wonder Woman's second look I don't know if that's in the comic but it's
very cool here I don't want to give too much away but I was like that's a good
look also by the way as you might have seen on social media this movie makes
Wonder Woman a full lesbian and deviation from the read side comic in
fact which i think is good I think you know well here's the thing
she comes from an island of all women that's just the situation that was
created in the comics and you gotta be you gotta be faithful to that and I
think you have to think of the logical extensions I'd say on the same on the
same note I thought the man-hating sometimes was a bit much here I was like
oh I get it Wonder Woman you don't like guys but again she comes from an island
of all women so I mean I think that's the context of the character it makes
sense I mean just because she says it doesn't mean she's right I mean there
are a lot of characters in this movie that have their perspectives aren't
great that's that's reality I also by the way like the race spending
of Jimmy Olsen something that the Supergirl TV series started and seems to
be sticking around now something some of you might complain
about that but here's the thing when these comics in these characters
mythologies that are still very popular today the main ones were created there
was no diversity in comics even though the world at that time was a diverse but
nobody felt any responsibility to represent the audience that was reading
the material but today of course we realized that that's what should be done
and you want these things to be relatable to modern audiences so these
changes have to be made and I think Jimmy Olsen is an excellent candidate
for race bending just as I thought Perry White was as well finally my favorite
character design by far away was Lois Lane I'm such a big Lois Lane fan so
because of that over the past years I've been very sad that DC and Warner
Brothers have the idea that Lois should be made to
look as ordinary as possible when the whole appeal of the character is that
she's supposed to be just as formidable and unique a human specimen as Lex
Luthor it was very nice to see her back in top form but yet still grounded I
don't like when Lois or lex are made into like many superheroes right he's an
amazing businessman scientist and she's an investigative journalist those things
are plenty cool all by themself if you do them correctly and Lex Luthor was I
think done very well here he was even in more of a gray area than usual almost
Batman like and I prefer this version of Lex as well a side note
Diedrich Bader was very good but I do like Rainn Wilson as the current voice
of Lex Luthor he's very very good sometimes DC can just really mess up
their own characters which is infuriating because the recipe is so
simple and obvious that's the beauty of these characters and why their
mythologies have been so popular for so long but this animated movie red Sun I'm
happy to say gets it right with the Superman mythology and you know the
stuff with the Trinity very good but you know of course playing with it but you
know they play with it but they're respectful to the origins which is why
they're playing with it works that's the trick of the Elseworlds story it's
different but yet not oh I love our old stories all right so I also have to warn
you like most DC animation these days it's trying to be for adults I don't
know what I think that's gonna make them more money I don't think it would but
this is a very least two pg-13 rated film and maybe a soft R something to
consider if you want to introduce it to a younger viewer but I've really enjoyed
it as you can see and I think you will too so that's my review of Superman read
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