Superman / Batman: Apocalypse
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Superman / Batman: Apocalypse |
| Original title | Superman / Batman: Apocalypse |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 78 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lauren Montgomery |
| script | Tab Murphy |
| production | Lauren Montgomery, Bobbie Page |
| music | John Paesano |
| cut | Margaret Hou |
Superman / Batman: Apocalypse is an American direct-to-video - animated film from 2010 and the sequel to the film Superman / Batman: Public Enemies . The work, directed by Lauren Montgomery , is the ninth film in the DC Universe Animated Original Movies and tells how Superman's cousin Kara Zor-El lands on earth and becomes Supergirl . While the film performed well in various viewer rankings, it was heavily criticized by many DC fans.
action
The film sets in after the events of Superman / Batman: Public Enemies in Gotham City . The ousting of President Lex Luthor is still a hot topic in the news . There is also controversial media talk about airships floating over the city as the latest surveillance method. By Batman's destruction of a meteorite from kryptonite it is still too meteor showers.
At the same time, a large piece of meteorite hits a bay off Gotham. Batman makes his way to the impact site and discovers a spaceship with strange inscriptions underwater in the remains of the meteorite. Meanwhile, a young woman emerges from the water. She gets into Batman's watercraft, who is notified, pulls a lever through which she drives off, so that the vehicle smashes up on the coast and explodes.
The woman meets three workers at the port. However, they cannot communicate with each other, so the situation escalates and the woman beats up two of the men and runs away. She was hit by a car on the road, but she survived this unharmed. With her uncontrolled laser gaze, she also blows up a police car so that the police chase her. The young woman begins to float in the air and ends up facing Batman on a roof. After the situation escalated there, too, the girl flies uncontrollably into an airship, which explodes. By Superman's intervention before the impact worse can be prevented. Batman then takes the unconscious woman to his headquarters, the Bath Cave . There he realizes that the woman has no human DNA . The woman wakes up and uncontrollably demolishes the bath cave when Superman appears and introduces himself to her as Kal-El . She tells him that her name is Kara Zor-El , that she comes from Krypton and that she is his cousin.
A week later, Superman, Kara Zor-El and Batman are in the Fortress of Solitude , Superman's headquarters. There he confirms Batman's statement by writing on the spaceship Zor-El. Batman is skeptical about this, however, as he sees the young woman as a potential threat. Zor-El, who has learned fluent English within a week , can no longer remember anything before landing on Earth and is quarantined in the fortress of solitude. With the help of Batman and Superman, Zor-El manages to remember their last moments on Krypton. She tells Batman that when she left Krypton, she saw the planet go under and her parents died before her.
At the same time on the planet Apokolips : After Big Barda deserted from Darkseid as captain of the honor guard , he instructs Granny Goodness to find a replacement for him. However, he does not find anyone who can fight the Furys. Darkseid becomes impatient and threatens to kill him if he cannot find a worthy successor for Barda. Darkseid Goodness suggests kidnapping Zor-El and training her to be Barda's successor.
After the quarantine Zor-El is over, she lives with Kal-El, the bourgeois on the Earth as Clark Kent is on the way in Metropolis . To show Zor-El the culture, they visit fashion stores, eat hot dogs and go for a walk in the park in the evening. There Zor-El recognizes from a superman statue that people see Superman as overpowering. Kent teaches her the importance of identity secrecy for superheroes. Zor-El is afraid of having to bear responsibility as a superhero. Suddenly they are attacked by Amazons who want to kidnap the girl. Zor-El unintentionally destroys parts of the park with the X-ray vision. The fight ends abruptly when Superman sees Zor-El in the arms of Wonder Woman . In Paradise Island , her home, there are visions that see Zor-El in great danger. Together with the new Batman, Wonder Woman convinces Superman that Zor-El has to come to Paradise Island, where she should learn to control her powers.
Lyla, who also has superpowers, also lives with the Amazons. She keeps having visions of her death in the presence of Kal-El and Zor-El. Under the eyes of Batman, Superman, who disapproves of the training, and under the supervision of Wonder Woman, Zor-El has been training for two months. When she fights against Artemis and loses, Superman steps in and demands of Wonder Woman to let Zor-El go to him in Metropolis. There is an argument. Zor-El is angry about the attempts to rule over her and flies to a beach with Lyla, who she sees as the only person she can trust, where they discuss Zor-El's problems.
While Diana Prince, the cover identity of Wonder Woman, Kent, is still clearing up the visions that see Zor-El in danger, a portal opens in front of them that leads to Apokolips and from which a “ Doomsday Army” multiplied by Darkseid comes. Darkseid's clone army and the trio of superheroes fight each other. The rushing Amazon army and Superman's superpowers bring defeat for the clone army. During the battle, Batman realizes that the fight was just a distraction; through a second portal on the coast, Darkseid was able to take Zor-El to Apokolips, where Lyla, who was with Zor-El and wanted to protect her from Darkseid, was killed. Batman, who was late, faces the dead Lyla as Superman and Wonder Woman show up. Superman puts his cloak over her and carries her out of the water; thus Lyla's visions have come true.
Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman now want to go to Apokolips to avenge Lyla's death and bring Zor-El back to earth. There Darkseid begins to manipulate Zor-El and train her to be the captain of his honor guard. In a small town, Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman meet Barda, the deserted captain of Darkseid's honor guard, and ask her for help to get to Apokolips. Barda makes the portal available to the trio on the condition that they can come along and support them.
On Apokolips there is a fight between them and the Fury. Superman can get to Darkseid and demands that Zor-El come with him. Darkseid gives the manipulated Zor-El the choice of coming back to earth with Kal-El or of being the leader of his honor guard on Apokolips. Zor-El decides to stay on Apokolips. It comes to a fight between her and Superman who wants to bring her back to earth. While Zor-El beats Superman, Darkseid orders her to kill Superman, who refuses to fight her, and she ceaselessly beats Superman until he finally struggles and defeats her.
Meanwhile, Wonder Woman and Barda defeat the Furys and Goodman. Batman, who was also able to escape the fighting, finds so-called hell spores , which can be activated by a code, whereby all of Apocalips can be destroyed. Batman finds out the code, activates it, reprogrammes it, finds Darkseid, who is following the skirmish between Superman and Zor-El, and demands that he let Zor-El go so that he can deactivate the spurs of hell. Finally Darkseid surrenders and leaves Zor-El and her companions back on earth.
On Paradise Island the unconscious Zor-El comes to again. Superman is with her. She mourns Lyla and is shocked by the events on Apokolips. Superman, who wants to respond to Zor-El's request that she doesn't want to be a superhero, finally wants to bring her to his foster parents Martha and Jonathan Kent in Smallville . There they are surprised by Darkseid, who wants to take revenge for what happened on Apokolips and kill Superman. It comes to the fight between Clark Kent and Zor-El against Darkseid, in which Kent apparently dies. Now there is a duel between Zor-El and Darkseid, who defeats them but leaves them alive when Superman returns. Darkseid, who opens a portal to Apokolips, now fights him again. With the help of Zor-El, he can now defeat him and kick him into the portal. By reprogramming the portal by Zor-El during the duel between her cousin and Darkseid, Zor-El was able to cause the villain to land somewhere in space and freeze in the cold. Eventually Kal-El's foster parents arrive, get to know Zor-El and see how her house collapses before them.
Zor-El now realizes that she is destined to be a superhero, as predicted by Superman. On Paradise Island, Superman introduces his cousin Zor-El as a Supergirl to the Amazons and his comrades-in-arms on Apokolips and flies with her to Metropolis.
production
Emergence
That of Warner Premiere , DC Comics and Warner Bros. Animation animated film produced Superman / Batman: Apocalypse is based on that of Jeph Loeb wrote and Michael Turner and Peter Steigerwald drawn graphic novel Superman / Batman: Supergirl from the World's Finest series Superman / Batman . This first appeared in the comics Superman / Batman # 8 to 13 from March to November 2004. The sub-series was later summarized under the title The Supergirl From Krypton and finally appeared as a collective work under the title Superman / Batman - Volume 2: Supergirl . With the appearance, Supergirl returned for the first time in over 20 years of absence in a new comic published by DC . The film sticks to its original for the first 30 minutes, but then deviates from it in various places.
Bruce Timm , who has been taking care of animated DC adaptations since 1992, returned to the film staff as a producer from the previous film Superman / Batman: Public Enemies . Lauren Montgomery , who previously directed Justice League: Crises on Two Earths for a DC Universe Animated Original Movies film , replaced Sam Liu as director.
synchronization
Numerous voice actors of the original dubbing set the same roles in other animated films earlier for DC . With Tim Daly , who spoke the title character for the first time in 1996 for the animated series Superman , and Kevin Conroy , who lent his voice to the superhero, also known as the Dark Knight, since the animated series Batman, which was first broadcast in 1992 , the original speakers from the previous film, Superman / Batman, returned: Public enemies , go back. In the German dubbing, Sascha Rotermund replaced Ingo Albrecht's voice as Superman and David Nathan replaced Batman's voice actor Eberhard Haar . The role of Wonder Woman was originally taken on by Susan Eisenberg . She was first heard in 2001 in the TV series The Justice League as the Amazon Princess in English. As for the series, Arianne Borbach took on the German voice for her in Superman / Batman: Apocalypse .
reception
publication
Superman / Batman: Apocalypse was released by Warner Home Video on November 28, 2010 in the United States on DVD , Blu-ray , Video on Demand, and for download. In Germany, the film was released more than a week and a half later, on October 8th. Two different DVD versions were released: a standard version and a so-called 2-disc special edition . While the first DVD contains the same material as the standard version, the second disc contains an additional hour and a half of additional material. Among other things, a short film from the DC Showcase series, Green Arrow, has been preserved. In Blu-ray sales, only one version with one disc is sold, whereby in addition to the additional material from the second DVD disc, around an hour of bonus material is also received.
DVD sales generated over $ 6.3 million and Blu-ray sales over $ 1.5 million. This resulted in a total profit of over 7.9 million US dollars.
criticism
While the film performed relatively well on Rotten Tomatoes and in the Internet Movie Database with 63 percent and 7.2 out of 10 stars, respectively, the film received negative ratings from many DC fans. Cindy White wrote in IGN that "This movie isn't really about action, it's about character development." She comes to the conclusion that even with the film, the “DC Universe has so far produced nothing really terrible or unsuitable for our time, and the trend continues here. It's just a shame that [the makers] seem to feel the need to hide what the film is actually about ”. White gave the film eight out of ten points.
The film was received rather negatively among fans. Jeffrey Bridges writes on the Superman Homepage that almost the first hour of the film is boring and spreads gender-related prejudices against women, some of which do not even appear in the comic book. Superman says at one point about Zor-El: "Shopping, junk food ... you are truly a girl from the earth". Bridges only found the last 20 minutes interesting, so he gave the film two out of five stars. Jeffrey Taylor, also author of the Superman Homepage , also criticized the fact that the drawings, similar to the comics , try to imitate Ed McGuinness' style , but do not match it as well as the original. Zach Demeter also rated the film on The World's Finest, in contrast to the previous film in the series, Batman: Under the Red Hood , negatively and says that the plot progresses haphazardly. He also criticizes the portrayal of Zor-El as a "girly girl" and says that the focus is too much on Supergirl than on the other characters such as the eponymous roles. He also criticizes the animation of speech movements that do not match the voice, which Jeffrey Bridges also criticizes. The fact that Superman and Batman are not in the limelight bothers Jett, founder of Batman on Film . He even thinks for this reason that Superman / Batman: Apocalypse is not even a “real” Batman movie, although Batman “at least looks cool”.
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Superman / Batman: Apocalypse in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Remarks
- ↑ You can also hear dialogues in a Krypton language between Kal-El and Zor-El.
- ↑ Original English quote: “[T] his film is not really about action, it's about character development. [...] DC Universe has yet to put out anything truly awful or unworthy of your time, and that trend continues here. It's just a shame that they seem to feel the need to hide what the movie is really all about. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d “Superman / Batman: Apocalypse” Animated DVD Movie. In: Superman Homepage. June 29, 2010, accessed April 3, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Superman / Batman: Apocalypse. In: The Numbers.com. Retrieved April 3, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Jeffrey Taylor: "Superman / Batman: Apocalypse" - Comic Book Comparison. In: Superman Homepage. Retrieved April 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Bruce Timm. In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved April 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Compare Superman / Batman: Public Enemies - Full Cast & Crew with Superman / Batman: Apocalypse - Full Cast & Crew. In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved April 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Superman / Batman: Apocalypse. In: warnervideo.com. Retrieved April 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Tim Daly. In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved April 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Kevin Conroy. In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved April 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Compare Superman / Batman: Public Enemies with Superman / Batman: Apocalypse. In: German synchronous card index . Retrieved April 3, 2015 .
- ^ Susan Eisenberg. In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved April 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Arianne Borbach. In: German synchronous card index . Retrieved April 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Superman / Batman: Apocalypse. In: German synchronous card index . Retrieved April 3, 2015 .
- ^ Company credits. In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved April 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Release Info. In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved April 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Superman / Batman: Apocalypse. In: Blu-Ray Reviews. Retrieved April 4, 2015 .
- ^ Superman / Batman: Apocalypse (2010). In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved August 2, 2017 .
- ^ Superman / Batman: Apocalypse (2010). In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved August 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Cindy White: Superman / Batman Apocalypse Blu-ray Review. In: IGN Entertainment . September 30, 2010, accessed April 3, 2015 .
- ^ A b Jeffrey Bridges: "Superman / Batman: Apocalypse" - Movie Review. In: Superman Homepage. Retrieved April 3, 2015 .
- ^ Demeter Zach: Reviews - Film Review. In: The World's Finest. September 28, 2010, accessed April 3, 2015 .
- Jump up ↑ Jett: Superman / Batman: Apocalypse. (No longer available online.) In: Batman-on-film.com. September 28, 2010, archived from the original on March 3, 2016 ; accessed on April 3, 2015 .
