DCU: Death of Superman (4K/Ultra HD/Blu-ray) [4K UHD]

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.

This movie is AMAZING! Animation, voice acting (except for Lex), story, pacing, score.... everything was just so well done. I was around for the Death of Superman in the comics. Didn't actually get to read it at the time because of limited funds, but I was there for the hype. Although they tried to incorporate the (New 52?) current story line of the DC Animated movies, and added a lot of the current Justice League characters, it felt like it just added action, while still being able to focus on Lois and Clark, and building their characters. Which made the ending that much more impactful. I've already watched this multiple times, and would still watch again. The only negative I have, as I've mentioned before, is Rainn Wilson as Lex Luthor. He's a good actor, probably, but his voice is just too high-pitched and nerdy for Lex. It just doesn't fit at all. The moment he started talking, all I could see is Dwight Schrute being stupid and whiny. Luckily, as big of a role as he had, he didn't have too many speaking parts. At least, not enough to affect my love of this movie. All-in-all, an exceptionally well made movie, that might be the best yet in the current line of animated movies. Also, I want to point that out. I was wondering who in their right mind would give this a 1-star review, and besides the occasional "purist" who wouldn't like anything short of a page for page adaptation, most of them were people that were shocked to learn this was ::gasp:: ANIMATED! Oh the horror!

Excellent movie and good fun

Part Two of Death of Superman. I guess it could have been called The Resurrection of Superman since lately in adaptation Superman is protrayed as a sun god or Jesus Christ like figure.I was not crazy about this movie at first because I did not like New 52 version of Superman being paired with another godlike figure Wonder Woman. Luckily the writers fix this. Broke up Clark and Dianna and paired him with Lois surprising us with a makeout session in the broom closet of The Daily Planet in The Death of Superman.This movie focus on Lois coping with the loss of Clark after finding out his true identity in the final act of Part One yet still being the great reporter she is and investigating the new Supermen appearing after Superman's death. Who is the true Superman reincarnated and what trickery is Lex Luthor up to?This was a great version of the Death of Superman story. I like how not only did it focus on the relationship of Lois and Clark from the remainder of the New 52 universe starting with Death of Superman but it also focused on Clark. Clark is the opposite of Batman. Clark is who he is. Superman is what he can do.This was a great movie with many twists and turns and it also made Superman as likeable and less godlike like Batman.