Superman: Brainiac Attacks (2006)

Sadly Over-hyped

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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.

WHO STOLE BRAINIAC'S BRAIN? Well, folks; I hope you enjoyed the fifteen years between 1991 and 2006 with Bruce Timm's high standards of excellence in scripts and animation -- because the abysmally awful dialogue running through this moooovie is straight out of the worst of the 1970's Hanna-Barbarra lame-brain era.How awfully bad is this movie? Lex Luther and Brainiac, evil geniuses extraordinaire, are reduced to smirking numbskulls uttering inane dialogue. -- I cannot fathom a *conscious* reason for this, either, since even "explanatory" dialogue (in which everyone always explains everything they're doing as they're doing it, so elementary school kiddies will "get it") needn't be as horrible as this.Powers Booth? Lance Henrickson? -- I have an idea: Let's animate the corpse of Ted Knight, and let him read all the parts in the same lobotomized histrionics which put a fork in "Stupid Friends".Everyone involved in production, writing and editing should be sentenced to the Agony Matrix: Direct neural stimulation of pain-receptors. All of them. Forever.*Sigh*....back to anime for anything remotely engaging on television. Lord knows I won't get it from this, or Squidbillies, or any of the other stupefyingly rotten home-made junk the Cartoon Network is running now.

Does the WB really believe as Kevin Smith has said, that their only goal is to sell toys? First off then they should have made better toys from the Superman movie, most of the new ones bite, but even worst was the audacity to make this film.It was nice to have Tim Daly back on cast, and the Clark - Lois, Superman - Lois relationship was handled well, but who agreed to recast all the other voices??? Don't get me long, I'm a fan of Tara Strongs work, but she missed the Mercy role big time. And Brainic sounded, well kind a sad , but Worste of all (the movie destroyer) was a recast of Lex Luther from Clancy Brown to Powers Boothe. I mean he does a good job on Grodd, but as Luther??? He obviously ad-libs the dialog making Luther into some kind of sad Metrosexual idiot. "let's have a Luah" when he believes Superman to be dead for instance, Lex would never suggest such a thing. He would be more like, "Send the Planet and Miss Lane my deepest regrets and get my Causal Suit ready, we will need to throw a party to unveil my newest plan." If you are a Lex Luther fan, this movie will make you cry in embarrassment.

Superman: The Animated Series had wonderful animation and was careful with the unique and interesting continuity that it had set up,this has all gone the way of the dodo in this cartoon movie that although has characters in the same model as the animated series it had nothing at all to do with that great show Paul Dini and Bruce Timm produced A goofy Lex Luthor with dumb one liners, A Brainiac without his cold calculating logic and a focus on Clark upset that Lois like Superman but not him are what you can find in this movie. Plot holes that make no sense and a Kryptonite nannite ray that makes people look like they haven't slept in days are also found. If you want to see how a bad Superman Animated Series would have looked then this movie is for you, otherwise avoid it like the plague.

I was very upset by the demise of Justice League Unlimited. It sounded the death knell for all of the DC Animated series line that has been going on since the original Batman The Animated Series, that started way back in 1992. I had also felt that over the years, that like most great shows, the story telling had matured very well. The only thing that I had to count on now was direct to DVD movies & was very excited to see a new Superman the Animated Series movie coming out. To add to the excitement, Tim Daly, was returning as Superman's voice. He had not done Superman throughout the 2 Justice League series. Then came great disappointment. Powers Booth as Lex Luthor? Lance Henricksen as the laughing Brainiac? It's very obvious that they wanted lighter villains for 2 reasons. One, to mimic Kevin Spacey's Lex in Superman Returns & two, to lighten this up for child consumption. Clancy Brown & Corey Burton embodied these 2 classic villains. Braniac as a cold, calculative computer & Lex as the ruthless buisnessman/scientist. They threw all continuity to the wind with this movie as well. Brainiac not knowing of the orb of Krypton in Superman's Fortress? It was his to begin with. Obviously they chose to ignore all of Brainy's Kryptonian origins. Lex's henchwoman Mercy, a giggly bubblehead?Also, since when did the Phantom Zone develop a revolving door? That's the purpose of that inter-dimensional gulag, it's inescapable unless someone lets you out. I could go on & on but instead I will say: If your a big fan of all the other animated series incarnations, this will not please you at all. If your looking for a fun, light hearted Superman romp for your 6-10 year old, this is the DVD for you.