Reign of the Supermen

USA • 2019 • 87m •

• Directed by: Sam Liu. • Starring: Jerry O'Connell, Rebecca Romijn, Rainn Wilson, Patrick Fabian, Charles Halford, Cameron Monaghan, Cress Williams, Rosario Dawson, Nathan Fillion, Christopher Gorham, Shemar Moore, Nyambi Nyambi, Jason O'Mara. • Music by: Frederik Wiedmann.

After the death of Superman, several new people present themselves as possible successors.

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The Death of Superman was decent, had some good moments... and served to set me up for a horrible disappointment with this, the sequel. It. Was. Horrible. I literally cringed, clenched my teeth at some of the scenes. Easily one of the worst DC animations I've seen in a while (though a lot of the more recent ones like Son of Batman etc were pretty horrible as well). Forget the action scenes, they're pretty bad but it's irrelevant when the plot, the writing, dialog and characterization is as wretched as it is in these recent flicks. It's mind boggling how bad the writing has gotten for DCAU productions; none of this is Oscar nomination worthy stuff but they used to be much, much better.

The stilted timing in the dialog animation doesn't help; so many awkward, weird split second moments where the dialog just stops dead, and there's dead space (not meaningful pause), before the banter awkwardly resumes... lost count of how many times this happens (noticeable in Death of Superman as well... wth is this about?).

Prime WTH moment, Lois suddenly becomes den mother giving a pep talk to Superboy, gets interrupted by a call from JHJSteel who calls to report a discovery related to Superman with all the urgencyimportance of someone saying that there's a girl scout at the door selling cookies; Lois essentially says 'ok, call me back if you find out anything important', goes back to talking to Superboy like 'Whatever'. What in the world?? It was such a pointless exchange that my head nearly exploded.

I also don't think most (there are exceptions) of the current crop of DC animation voice actorsactresses (the women from JLU were especially amazing) can hold a candled to the older gen, though it could be that they have to deal with making their voices match the weirdly timed talking heads.

I'm sorry DC, this was just bad. Such a huge letdown after Death of Superman sort of hinting at better things to come.

Review by ithildurnew from the Internet Movie Database.

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