ChanBot
i must have seen a different film!!
TrueHello
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
Roman Sampson
One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
Bob
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
DCfan
I enjoyed Superman/Batman public enemies and this was a massive step up from that movie.The story was good the voice acting was great, the animations and the designs improved a lot from the previous movie. But unlike the previous one, I wouldn't say this movie can be seen by kids under 11 because in the first scene when Supergirl comes to earth, unlike Superman the animated series she is shown to be naked and her breasts can nearly be shown.The title should be Justice League apocalypse instead because Wonder Woman and Big Barda are in this movie.The last scene was funny and beautiful when Supergirl and Superman were flying together but the best scene was the last battle.
KineticSeoul
Rather than this movie being a Superman/Batman team-up movie they should have just simply titled it "Supergirl". Because this movie seemed inconsistent from time to time. By focusing more on what Kara aka Supergirl was going through and more focus on her origin would have made this a better watch in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, Batman and Superman does play a pivotal part in the movie. But it just seemed like the focus should have been more on Supergirl. The fight scenes are pretty good, especially the team up between Superman and Supergirl against Darkseid near the end. It was choreographed very well and had some clever moments. The plot is alright, nothing all that grand or amazing. But it does have enough entertainment value and the superb fight between the heroes against Darkseid makes it worth a watch. The movie does have it's moments, but overall it's pretty average.7.3/10
Shawn Watson
With so many Warner Premier animations coming out these days it is especially hard to keep up with them all. Superman/Batman: Apocalypse follows on from their Public Enemies team-up in 2009. Supes has his name come first in the title as this is primarily his story with Batman playing sidekick.The movie opens with a meteor splashing into Gotham Harbor and causing untold damage and misery to boat owners and businesses around the water. Batman investigates and is surprised to find naked, pretty Kara Zor-El (that would be Supergirl) has arrived on Earth with not much recollection of what happened.Her cousin Superman takes her in and promises to teach her how to use her powers correctly on Earth. Kara just wants to be an ordinary girl and Supes is happy to spoil her. Too bad that Darkseid, in the Apokolips realm (or whatever it is) has sinister plans for her and temps her into corruption with promises of almighty power.As soon as Bats, Supes, Wonder Woman, and that other tall girl go after her things go downhill. I suppose it's a lot like the first Thor movie in that regard (I never bothered with the second one) - the scenes set on Earth were fun and entertaining, but all of the gibberish on Asgard bored me to tears. This DC effort is no different. Watching Kara try to fit in on Earth is nice, but last third in the Apokolips realm is tedious and repetitive, and then it carries on into Smallville too. Someone smashes into a building, they hit back and someone else smashes into another building, then they hit back and the first person smashes into a building again. I'd love to see the scripts for these comic book movies, it must be the same words printed over and over. Thankfully, the 9/11 porn of tumbling skyscrapers seen in abundance in Man of Steel (and far too many others) is absent here.The movie was surprisingly violent in some scenes too. It is by no means a bad entry in the Bruce Timm DC universe, just a little derivative.
Neil Welch
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse adapts Jeph Loeb's comic arc into an animated movie - a mysterious super-powered young woman crash lands on Earth claiming to be Superman's cousin: Batman doesn't trust her, Wonder Woman undertakes her training, and Darkseid seeks to recruit her.This entertaining and action-packed yarn adapts well to movie status. Character design is fairly slick and animation is well executed. Voice casting draws heavily on previously established voice characterisations from the Justice League TV series (it is pleasing to hear Kevin Conroy's Batman again, and Ed Asner's Granny Goodness...). Of the new voices, Summer Glau does well as Kara, although I was less taken with Andre Braugher's Darkseid.In terms of execution, my only criticism derives from the fundamentals of the characters involved: the extensive fight sequences between Superman, Kara and Darkseid essentially don't go anywhere, because the characters are evenly matched in terms of powers and, importantly, vulnerability - no matter how massively Superman bashed Darkseid (or vice versa), the bashed one is going to get up and walk away. The fight sequences therefore don't actually achieve anything of importance, lose dramatic tension, and go on far too long.Other than that, this is a good addition to DC's animated library.