Whenever Rich and I decide to meet up for a movie, the ones I pick end up being better than the ones he picks. This is particularly true when I pick one movie and we change to his choice at the last minute. This happened a couple of weeks ago when meeting at The Plaza Cinema Cafe for a cheap movie. He decided he wanted to see Pandorum, admitted that it would be awful, and yet I still agreed to see it.
Imagine a spacecraft….drifting in space…..with the crew in hypersleep. Something wakes them up and they realize things have gone horribly wrong. If this sounds familiar, then you are correct. I just described Alien from 1979, which also applies to this movie. What follows is a convoluted mess that involves mind games and boogey men. Even Dennis Quaid couldn’t save this movie…
My advice: Never let Rich pick movies, and skip this one completely…
Over the past year or so, I have been rather effusive with my praise for DC Comics and Warner Brothers for understanding how to make animated movies and keeping the quality up. So here I am again with a review of yet another offering from the DC Animated Universe.
Our story is based on the popular graphic novel of the same name, which is really the first 5-8 issues of the Superman-Batman comic book series. Lex Luthor is President and has turned public sentiment against those superheroes that “refuse” to swear an oath of loyalty to him…err….the US. A subplot deals with the approach of a huge kryptonite meteor. What follows is a story with a good beginning, okay middle, and, sadly, poor ending. My first warning sign was the running time of 67 minutes, just over the amount of time for two episodes of Justice League. I liked where the story was going and then it was bam!! In the final 15 minutes, everything that had been set up was completely resolved with little effort. The last time I felt this dissatisfied with a DC movie was when I watched Superman:Doomsday. Neither movie did anything to wow me…
I bought the Blu-Ray version, so I can not review the added features. I watched this via the digital copy provided.
