2011 · action · adventure · animation
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights
Directed by Jay Oliva, Lauren Montgomery, Christopher Berkeley1h 24m2011
As the home planet of the Green Lantern Corps faces a battle with an ancient enemy, Hal Jordan prepares new recruit Arisia for the coming conflict by relating stories of the first Green Lantern and several of Hal's comrades.
Our read: Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (2011) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · adventure · animation entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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