Superman/Batman: Apocalypse DVD Review

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse DVD Review
By Jose

Plot:

Batman discovers a mysterious teen-aged girl with super-human powers and a connection to Superman. When the girl comes to the attention of Darkseid, the evil overlord of Apokolips, events take a decidedly dangerous turn.

Review:

I truly found this entry to DC Comics animated movies to be the best one released so far. The story was great. If you have read the comic arc that this story is based off of or if you haven’t, it doesn’t matter because it is told here rather well while omitting and adding certain things here and there. Essentially this takes place after the first Superman/Batman movie Public Enemies where a kryptonian ship crashes to Earth with the cousin of Superman in it. Confusion and Batman ensue the scared girl until Superman takes her under his wing and shows her how to act and get accustomed to her new home. While both Batman and Wonder Woman are skeptical and worried that her being stronger and more dangerous than Superman himself along with her inexperience with her powers she needs to be trained. SO Wonder Woman takes her. Months pass and Darkseid gets interested in having a member of Superman’s family for himself especially to be the new leader of his Furies. So long story short, an army of Doomsday beasts get sent to kidnap Supergirl and Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, and Big Barda have to save her from Darkseid.

This brings me to the action of this animated movie and characters. It is great to see so many cameo appearances of the many characters from the DC universe. Not only do we get the title characters we have Big Barda, the Furies and Granny Goodness, the Amazons, Darkseid, and the new Supergirl. All great characters all involved is some great action and fight scenes. The Furies fight alone with Wonder Woman and Big Barda fighting all four of the Furies ( Lashina, Stompa, Gilotina, and Mad Harriet) kicking each others asses was great. The Amazons versus the Doomsday beasts was awesome and that final battle at the end with Superman, Darkseid, and Supergirl going at it at full force was just amazing to watch unfold.

The only thing I had a problem with was the voice acting. All were great and spot on. Even Giving Granny Goodness a deep gravelly man voice was good. But the voice for Darkseid was off and felt very normal. Now I have seen others give Darkseid a voice before but the best has always been Michael Ironside. He has the best voice for the dark god the same way that Mark Hamill is the voice for Joker. But after awhile it did grow on you I still missed that definite Darkseid voice.

Final Thoughts:

Hands down Superman/Batman Apocalypse is currently the best DC animated movie. The action and story are all great and keeps you entertained. The same way that Public Enemies brought to life the artwork of Ed McGuiness, Apocalypse brought to life the late Michael Turners artwork to life in such a great and wonderful way that did and honor to the original artwork. I highly recommend everyone who is a fan of either of the main characters or a DC comics fan or comics fan in general to pick this up and watch it. Same goes to everyone else pick this up and watch it it’s that good.

Ratings 4 out of 5