Just finished watching Superman: Doomsday. It is DC Comics latest foray into the world of straight-to-video feature animated films. It was pretty good. It is loosely based on the famous "Death of Superman", "Funeral for a Friend" & "Last Son of Krypton" storylines from the mid 1990's. I say loosely because really only the first third of the film is based on those story arcs. I would say overall the film works even though the final two acts bear little resemblance to the original source material. It's pretty good stuff...and definitely more intense than other DC cartoons. Little kids should not be watching this.
The animation is in the same vein of the Bruce Timm (he does serve as producer and co-writer here as well) DC universe but the movie exists on its own...it doesn't fit into the continuity of the rest of Bruce Timm's work (Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond & The Justice League). But I will say that like those other shows...Superman: Doomsday is on the same high quality level as those other cartoons. And I would also say that the production value--in terms of the animation and story are the best I've seen from Bruce Timm and his fellow filmmakers.
DC's next feature length animated film is one that I'm highly pumped for. Justice League: The New Frontier, one of my all time favorite mini-series, is getting the next treatment. Even cooler...the film is being drawn with respect to how Darwyn Cooke drew the original comic book mini-series. It's going to be cool. Here's an example of artistic sytle.
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