Comments on: DVD Review: All Star Superman

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:14:22 +0000

for what it’s worth I also enjoyed this movie a lot. I try not to compare a movie to its literary source and would rather give an impression on the movie alone, which is a debate I have with people over Harry Potter and LOTR.

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I didn’t think the movie jumped around until I read the comments and I’m still indifferent on the whole thing. IMO Bumbling Clark Kent was straight outta Christopher Reeve’s interpretation of the character. Superman revealing his identity reminded me of the first superman movie and then they had their super-date. Lois’ costume was similar to the outfit worn by Supergirl’s mom in the ‘New Krypton’ story from the comics. The super baddies seemed like they were based on a mix of the Ace of Spades gang and Ursa and Zod from the movies, complete with a 1 way trip to the phantom zone.

I really think that the movie took a lot of inspiration from the movies complete with a Lex luthor that was contemporary but seemed eerily familiar to the Gene Hackman interpretation of the character complete with idiot nephew/niece.

If any of those familiar scenes/feelings were intentional then I think the movie did very well as it brought some comfortable resolution to the character with Lois’ optimism at the end. 70 mins is a short window of time, and I didn’t even question the pacing until reading some comments. I haven’t read the mini-series yet, but I will very soon.

Just me 2c

By: Audioout

Audioout — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:51:02 +0000

I enjoyed it immensely but I never read the original. While I somewhat agree that the film jumps from story to story randomly, I enjoyed the overall arc so much that I totally forgave it.

Also, I didn’t even like the Superman Animated Series much at all.

By: 420BAND

420BAND — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:15:46 +0000

will see this tomorrow, I enjoyed the Superman/Shazam vs Black Adam even though it seemed short in run time.

By: Roman

Roman — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:25:25 +0000

In reply to Roman. just proof read what I wrote and I meant to agree that the jumping around threw me off.

By: Roman

Roman — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:21:59 +0000

I enjoyed the movie but thought your point on things just jumping around randomly seemed off. The two Kryptonians just appearing threw me way off. As an animated movie I thought it was great, you go into those types of movies with a different mentality. It isn’t Red Hood but it is entertaining. I just looked to how each character was portrayed and loved this look at Lex he was the best thing going for me.