2010 · sci-fi · action · adventure
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
Directed by Lauren Montgomery1h 19m2010
Batman discovers a mysterious teen-aged girl with superhuman powers and a connection to Superman. When the girl comes to the attention of Darkseid, the evil overlord of Apokolips, events take a decidedly dangerous turn.
Our read: Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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“You want punchy DC animation centered on Supergirl's arrival and Darkseid.”
Skip it tonight — Comic-book mythology and cosmic villain battles feel like homework.
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