'Superman: Brainiac Attacks' Sucks.
What is with these bad American OVA's?!
First we get the very badly done "Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman" a few years back, then 'Ultimate Avengers'(AKA "We aren't sure what we're doing!") and now, this.
It seems in the producers' rush to get Tim Daly back in his voice role as Superman, they told the voice actors for Brainiac and Lex Luthor that they aren't as important. Lex being voiced by someone else seems wrong.
The Premise:
The plot of this is pretty simple: Brainiac comes back, teams up with Luthor, and Brainiac tries to kill Superman. It seems the writers are also trying to explain several of the unwrapped subplots between the end of Supermans' series and the start of JL.
The Flaws:
Ohh boy, there's lots. Luthor sounds so... not classy. The voice actor might've been salvagable if not for the stupidest lines ever. "Break out the tiki torches"?
Speaking of which, Tim Daley is really 'phoning it in' here. His lines just don't have any power that they used to.
The people that created this movie(Timm wasn't involved, neither was Dini) redesigned Superman's fortress of solitude to match closer to the Donner Superman films' version, with a larger emphasis on crystal, which doesn't match the last look we had of the fortress in the Superman episode 'Legacy'.
Really, the villians just aren't classy at all anymore in this. If I wanted a whacky Lex, I'd watch the first Superman film, or the new one, because Gene Hackman or Kevin Spacey can pull it off.
But the Bruce Timm personification of Lex Luthor, voiced by Clancy Brown? Who postively DRIPPED class with every syllable he uttered?
Ow. Painful! OW!
The good news is the many errors in this film means we can write it off as some sort of badly done quagmire of an imaginary tale(such as Superman's powers changing with freezing breath.... Bruce Timm's Superman NEVER had freezing breath).
Lex Luthor personally 'battling' Brainiac? Not his style. The new look of the phantom zone? Just not doing it for me. It's not an intangible prison of no sounds, no touch...
And Luthor's line "Nice working with ya"
There's a definate slip of a Brooklyn accent...
Don't rent, buy, torrent, or even watch this. It's a waste of money, diskspace, and time.
First we get the very badly done "Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman" a few years back, then 'Ultimate Avengers'(AKA "We aren't sure what we're doing!") and now, this.
It seems in the producers' rush to get Tim Daly back in his voice role as Superman, they told the voice actors for Brainiac and Lex Luthor that they aren't as important. Lex being voiced by someone else seems wrong.
The Premise:
The plot of this is pretty simple: Brainiac comes back, teams up with Luthor, and Brainiac tries to kill Superman. It seems the writers are also trying to explain several of the unwrapped subplots between the end of Supermans' series and the start of JL.
The Flaws:
Ohh boy, there's lots. Luthor sounds so... not classy. The voice actor might've been salvagable if not for the stupidest lines ever. "Break out the tiki torches"?
Speaking of which, Tim Daley is really 'phoning it in' here. His lines just don't have any power that they used to.
The people that created this movie(Timm wasn't involved, neither was Dini) redesigned Superman's fortress of solitude to match closer to the Donner Superman films' version, with a larger emphasis on crystal, which doesn't match the last look we had of the fortress in the Superman episode 'Legacy'.
Really, the villians just aren't classy at all anymore in this. If I wanted a whacky Lex, I'd watch the first Superman film, or the new one, because Gene Hackman or Kevin Spacey can pull it off.
But the Bruce Timm personification of Lex Luthor, voiced by Clancy Brown? Who postively DRIPPED class with every syllable he uttered?
Ow. Painful! OW!
The good news is the many errors in this film means we can write it off as some sort of badly done quagmire of an imaginary tale(such as Superman's powers changing with freezing breath.... Bruce Timm's Superman NEVER had freezing breath).
Lex Luthor personally 'battling' Brainiac? Not his style. The new look of the phantom zone? Just not doing it for me. It's not an intangible prison of no sounds, no touch...
And Luthor's line "Nice working with ya"
There's a definate slip of a Brooklyn accent...
Don't rent, buy, torrent, or even watch this. It's a waste of money, diskspace, and time.
posted by ComicToonsThatSuck at 5:10 PM
3 Comments:
Countdown to Captain Sarcasm showing up to say your wrong, a horrible person, who kills kittens with swords, and that Brainiac Attacks is the kewlest, starting now. . .
actually, Sarc has said that the whole thing sounded stupid.
Yeah, that's right.
And if you're going to insult me, "Anonymous," at least have the balls to insult me openly.
I mean right now, you're not even worth counter-insulting.
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