Micransix Crappy film

BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Eric Stevenson I had no idea that this movie would be an origin story for Supergirl. I personally didn't find it as good as the Wonder Woman or Red Hood movies, but it's still good. I was thinking that all of these films were setting up some new superhero universe like the DCAU. I easily recognized that it wasn't the same Wonder Woman from the other movie. I think Superman's appearance has become a meme of some sort with how goofy it looks. Well, I admit it does look goofy but that's a minor complaint about a good movie. The animation for the most part is really good.I don't know why Desaad wasn't in this movie. It's kind of hard to take seriously a villain named Granny Goodness. Still, the action scenes are tons of fun and we even get a nice twist ending. This certainly told Supergirl's origin better than that awful Supergirl movie. I thought she might have been Power Girl at first, but I guess I'm just more interested in seeing a superhero, who's um, really attractive. It's great to see Batman and Wonder Woman here too and yep, this did a better way of representing them than the disappointing Batman Vs. Superman movie. ***

Rich Wright If you're fat, ugly or nerdy looking, don't expect to get into the DC Comics superhero clique... all those present are either hunky broad chested men ripped to infinity, or sexy skinny babes in cleavage and navel revealing outfits. Some may complain, but I say thank goodness this is one genre that hasn't fallen to the lamebrained political correctness that's befallen a lot of our culture. Go and sort your own life out, instead of trying to modify everything to suit your insecurities.Considering the amount of female characters in the film outnumber the males by precisely 50 to 1 (mainly on account of a lot of the action taking place on Wonder Woman's secret Amazonian island, and some extended scenes involving four vicious ladies who form an evil fighting quartet known as The Furies) it seems rather unfair that Batman and Superman are the only ones who are billed on the cover. They're the franchise's biggest stars though, and therefore it's main selling point. Again, get used to it.It's wall-to-wall fighting, which is much more intense than your traditional animation... hence the 12 certificate. There's individuals slammed into walls at light speed, burnt to a crisp with lasers, almost being devoured by huge beasties... and get this... STABBINGS that result in BLOOD and DEATH. You wouldn't get anything like this on He Man. Oh, I almost forgot, it's also an origin story for a teenage Supergirl, so we have some cute bits involving her introduction into our world. Not to mention, some great repartee between The Caped Crusader and The Man Of Steel, which is worth the price of admission alone.So, yeah. Pretty cool. 6/10

madbandit20002000 The DC Comics Animated Universe has another high quality, fun DTV animated film in its' library, the sequel to "Superman/Batman: Public Enemies". A little longer, "Superman/Batman: Apocalypse" is darker and effective.If you haven't seen the first one, don't read this and see it. If so, you know a big meteor, composes of Kryptonite, has landed in Gotham City Harbor, containing a Kryptonian spacecraft, containing Kara Zor-El (voiced by the cherub Summer Glau of "Firefly" and "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles"), Superman's adolescent cousin. The Man of Steel (Tim Daly of "Private Practice" is more than welcoming to her than the brooding Batman (Kevin Conroy of "Dynasty"), who sees her as a potential weapon.Apokolipian monarch Darkseid (Andre Braugher of "Men of A Certain Age") takes advantage of that point by kidnapping Kara and molding her to be his captain of his Femme Furies squad. Even with the help of Amazonian princess Wonder Woman (Susan Eisenberg reprises her role from "Justice League: The Animated Series") and ex-Furies leader/Mr. Miracle's wife Big Barda (Julianne Grossman), can the Big Blue Boy Scout and the Dark Knight save Kara from Darkseid's clutches? Nicely adapted from the story arc/graphic novel, "The Supergirl from Krypton" by Jeph Loeb ("PE") and the late Michael Turner (miss him), "Apocalypse" packs a punch at 78 minutes, giving an ode to anime, with a fun script by Oscar nominated scribe Tab Murphy ("Gorillas In The Midst" and the animated takes on "Tarzan" and "Atlantis") and crackerjack direction by Lauren Montgomery ("Green Lantern: First Flight").As usual, Daly and Conroy are perfect reprising the roles they did when they had solo shows. Braugher's no Mike Ironside, who voiced Apokolips's lord in "Superman: The Animated Series" and "JL", but is dutiful. The female voice actors are equally superb, yet it's screwball funny to head Ed Asner ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show", "Up") as Darkseid's lieutenant, Granny Goodness.Like the other recent DC Comics animated films, "Apocalypse" has a hard PG-13 rating; this isn't light kids' fare. Still, it's damn cool.

p-stepien Shortly after Batman saves the world from a kryptonite meteor a spacecraft crash lands in Gotham City. Batman is first on the scene, so soon he encounters a young girl with no knowledge of English or any other human languages. Almost instantly she shows off powers reminiscent of Superman, albeit she is incapable of controlling her powers and causes havoc and destruction in her path. With Superman's help Batman discovers the girl is Kara Zor-El, the niece of Jor-El and Superman's biological cousin. Batman remains suspicious of the newcomer, while Darkseid aware of her appearance decides to kidnap her to Apokolips to become the leader of his deadly Furies.I will not hide that I have a very basic issue with the whole DC universe: it's undying lameness. Save for Batman and a few secondary characters DC is populated with outdated, lame and corny characters with a couple of them like Wonder Woman or Superman being front-line characters for the comic giants. It remains no surprise that DC is losing the battle for minds and readers with Marvel, albeit Batman does his best to even up the odds.Over the years multiple attempts have been made to revamp and amp up the credibility of their stars. And villains like Darkseid or Doomsday helped a lot in this regard (even though they have been severely overused since their introduction). Nonetheless this direct-to-video animation is fully aware of the issues plaguing the Superman character, hence the counterpoint of Batman, which leads to some intriguing dialogue and interchange of vastly opposite mindsets. Nonetheless given the subject matter the movie doesn't delve too deeply into this interplay, as it focuses mostly on the action and a lot of attention is given towards the Supergirl/Superman relation. Batman ends up in a supporting role, but still manages to be the most interesting character in the movie with the best lines to boot.The animation is crisp and the bulky design prepped by Michael Turner is the best DC live graphics I have yet seen. Nonetheless the story lacks space to evolve and captivate, so instead of giving the characters some air to develop we jump from location to location and action sequence to action sequence. Which essentially turns it into a slightly indifferent joyride. Possibly fun for DC fans, but all else won't get the drift...