I went into this film expecting a blatant soulless and charmless attempt by Warner Bros to set up a new franchise to suck youngsters into the corporate money making machine and get them interested in the more adult DCEU. However, despite some of that being true I have to say I was surprised how charming this film was.
The animation is very good and the voice cast is great (with Kevin Hart particularly well suited). The film is also full of little nudges and winks to previous DC superhero films and the opening scene is a particularly good homage to the original 1978 Superman film. There are also enough sly jokes in the script to keep grown up DC fans entertained (including one about a moustache that should keep Zack Snyder fans happy) and a couple of decent musical cues too.
My only grumble is that this film is slightly too long and I could hear children asking their parents to take them to the toilet. Personally I think this film should have been cut down to 90 minutes, partly because of the target audience attention span and partly because it does get bogged down in a couple of places with unnecessary detail that add nothing to it.
All in all this is a better than expected film. Despite my reservations going into the cinema to see it I was won over by how well made it is. It's perhaps slightly more violent than I would have expected and there are a couple of swear words bleeped out (at least in the UK version, not sure about other countries). However for a film aimed at the 5-11 year olds it is actually a really enjoyable effort.
The animation is very good and the voice cast is great (with Kevin Hart particularly well suited). The film is also full of little nudges and winks to previous DC superhero films and the opening scene is a particularly good homage to the original 1978 Superman film. There are also enough sly jokes in the script to keep grown up DC fans entertained (including one about a moustache that should keep Zack Snyder fans happy) and a couple of decent musical cues too.
My only grumble is that this film is slightly too long and I could hear children asking their parents to take them to the toilet. Personally I think this film should have been cut down to 90 minutes, partly because of the target audience attention span and partly because it does get bogged down in a couple of places with unnecessary detail that add nothing to it.
All in all this is a better than expected film. Despite my reservations going into the cinema to see it I was won over by how well made it is. It's perhaps slightly more violent than I would have expected and there are a couple of swear words bleeped out (at least in the UK version, not sure about other countries). However for a film aimed at the 5-11 year olds it is actually a really enjoyable effort.