DCU: The Death of Superman (Blu-ray)

Full disclosure, I've never really read any of the Superman comics, but after watching this movie I can finally see why people like Superman. Unlike the live action versions of Superman, in recent movies, this one actually shows Superman care about civilians and he treats their safety like it's the most important thing in the world. Not only that, but you can tell how much they in turn appreciate him as well. It's not a long movie (80 mins), however I think it's just about right amount of time for the story that's being told. Overall, I thought the movie was great with only a couple nitpicks. I'd recommend this for any superhero movie fan.

This animated movie is great I thought. It's worth watching just to see how they drew Doomsday in a new way.The entire sequence of how Doomsday came to our world was tremendous. Doomsday first ended up deep under the ocean in this movie.The animation in this movie is beautiful.They draw the girls so beautiful in these animated movies. Wonder Woman and Lex Luthor's assistant Mercy are mesmerizing in this one.I was surprised to hear Superman's friend Bibbo Bibboswki saying the Hail Mary prayer in this movie. This prayer is sort of specific for the Catholic Church. I noticed in the credits at the end of this movie that Marv Wolfman and Jerry Ordway created the Bibbo character.I get the impression that this movie will lead into some other follow on movies. Quite a few things that happen in this one will come up again in the next movie in the series which is Reign Of The Supermen.Movie like this are mainly for kids I think although it's rated PG for some swear words and Doomsday's violent nature.I'm starting to like the animated comic book movies better than the Hollywood versions.This movie left a lot of questions about Doomsday unanswered. I'll be curious to see how those answers come up in some other movies.This movie contains a lot of the elements from the original comic books.I became fascinated with the Death Of Superman comic book story way back in the 90s when this cataclysmic event happened. Those comic books were collected into the trade paperback called The Death Of Superman.Then some follow on comic books revealed Doomsday's unimaginable origins and explain why Doomsday is so mean and why he views Superman as the ultimate threat. I think those later comic books are in the trade paperback Superman: Doomsday. I read them separately when they were called the Hunter / Prey paperbacks.To me this animated movie would translate well into a Hollywood version.

5 stars isn't enough. The Death of Superman was the story that got me into comic books. So it was with great hesitation that I looked forward to this film. After all, DC animation did not get it right on the first try (see Superman: Doomsday) or the second (see Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice), why should they on the third?Well, I was wrong. This film captures the spirit of the epic comic while still crunching it down into an 80 minute story that I just wish was longer. I haven't loved a DC animated film this much since Batman: Under the Red Hood. And it stands among the upper echelons of the animated films that chose to focus more on character than action and greatly benefited from it.While not a straight retelling from the comic or the Roger Stern novel, it touches upon the points that needed to be made to set up for the second half the tale, Reign of the Supermen, and captured the spirit of the story by revolving around Clark the man and Lois. I actually liked how the incorporated the newer Justice League elements from recent films even though I haven't loved most of the newer Justice League movies. Their characters only served to enhance the story here.I intend to buy this on the day of its release and encourage any fan of DC/Superman/superheroes to do the same and send the message back to WB/DC animation that these are the kinds of stories we want to support--stories with heart and soul.

I am very impressed with DC's latest entry and I feel that they nailed all aspects of this great tale perfectly. This film is PG13 but does not shy away from the violence of DOOMSDAY. Any person in his way is murdered....like, really murdered, no mercy, just death. The gruesome stuff happens off screen, but leaves the viewers with little doubt as to the outcome of those interactions. When the fighting starts in the third act of the movie, it is unrelenting and a beautiful ballad of destruction between DOOMSDAY and the Justice League, who are smashed with ease. Wonder Woman shows how bad to the bone she is, but DOOMSDAY is ......DOOMSDAY.The voice work is superb and the animation is clean on Blu-ray. The new 52 costumes are dated now (see comics), but the continuity between all of the past titles is really good. I truly loved the emotion of the characters, the humor, and the flat out action of the biggest brawl since Tyson- Holyfield. Best action of any DC animation movie. There are no pretend deaths for civilians. Civilians are collateral damage and it is shown in the movie, as DOOMSDAY destroys any person in its way (cape or not). The city is drawn with people and is alive, unlike the Teen Titans Vs. Justice League movie where Trigon smashes an empty city with no victims. Wheew!! I have to watch this again to take it all in. 70 minutes flies by. This movie's version of Doomsday is 10x better than the Superman vs Batman movie version. This DOOMSDAY

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Super Film! Ich finde beide Teile richtig gut.. Reign of the Supermen ist ja der zweite teil und ist auch sehr zu empfehlen.. Beide teile gibt es auch auf einer Bluray und nennt sich The Death an return of superman...Ich besitze bereits alle 3 Varianten und habe aus zufall die version mit figur gefunden und natürlich direkt zugeschlagen... Es handelte sich zwar um die französische version aber mir egal weil ich die version eh eingeschweißt lasse.... Der wert dieser versionen wird definitiv in die höhe gehen... Leider ist beim Versand mein paket verloren gegangen aber amazon war so korrekt und hat mir direkt ein Ersatz zukommen lassen was dann auch gott sei dank angekommen ist... Amazon ist was sowas betrifft echt Kulant und korrekt....

Im Gegensatz zum Konkurrenten Marvel produziert DC tatsächlich noch altertümliche Zeichentrickfilme.Wenn andere das Label 'animated' auf ihre Hüllen drucken, sind diese auch tatsächlich animiert.Wie der Titel schon verrät, behandelt dieser Film den Tod von Superman, im Kampf mit 'Doomsday'.Komplettiert wird die Geschichte durch "Reign of the Supermen", welcher separat erhältlich ist.Medium: DVD