Superman: Doomsday has landed and the impressions are rolling in all around the intertron. Most of it, damn near 90% I’ve read, is good. But as fan and lover of the DC Animated Universe established with Batman the Animated Series, Superman, and Justice League Unlimited, I’m not too sweet on this new launch of DC Animated Movies.

Here are my impressions thus far:

I’ve watched it up to the point where Superman dies aaannnnd, I’m not digging it. Not nearly as good as the Justice League episodes that have dealt with Doomsday and Superman and Lois’s replacments don’t seem to love the roles. Anne Heche as Lois sounds forced, distant and sometimes a bit annoyed at doing the role. I guess it’s not fair to compare her against the original that’s been doing the voice for years, but I really wish they hadn’t switched voices at all.

And the Superman cheekbones. Like, we can see it is the regular Superman that we like there and uglier cheekbones than the original ones slapped on him at the beginning of the Justice League are even more distracting here. And some chin divid.

This Doomsday is mindless, where the one in JLU could talk and was chilling in his savagry and how calmly he spoke.

Lex Luthor looks like he’s succombed to anirexia and also throws me off on how ugly he looks now. His voice was okay.

My may problem with the new voices is…. you can feel that they just don’t get it or love it. Like, they’re just going through the paces.

I’ll finish it up today, but yeah… I’m not hot on it.

So, take that for what you will. I downloaded it off Xbox LIVE and fired it up and have not really enjoyed it all that much. I’ll be watching the rest of it and laying down my final impressions in the newly configured cartoons, comics, and anime forum, The Graphix Café

Drop on in and let us know what you think.

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