Directed by: Lauren Montgomery, Brandon Vietti, Bruce Timm, Bruce W. Timm
Starring: John DiMaggio, Adam Baldwin, Anne Heche, James Marsters
(4 votes)
I own this movie on DVD.
It's been so many years now, it's hard for me to remember for sure... but I think this is where it all started for me wanting to start collecting the DC animated movies on DVD. I still have a very good collection of these. I originally borrowed this one from a friend's brother, but now own it myself.
It was either this one or Batman under the Red Hood that got me started collecting them.
Either way, this is a really good animated Superman movie.
So yeah, since then I've been trying to get every animated super hero movie on DVD I can, and they are fun to go through for mistakes.
Superman/Doomsday is the story about... well the death of Superman to put it lightly. (this has since been remade again under that title I believe but I think this first version is better). Where the mysterious super powerful creature, known as Doomsday, emerges and has only one goal. One purpose... to destroy every living thing it sees. And only one man can stop him... a Super man. But even Superman struggles against this beast. It's not really a spoiler to say that they defeat each other in mutual combat and Superman 'dies', with a lot of this movie then picking up in the after math with what does the world, what does Metropolis do... without Superman?
It's a very good movie and I'd rate it a 4.5 star out of 5 if I could on this site.
and this was also one of the first movies I really took a deep dive into for mistakes.
Mistake Status: I've combed through this movie several times, and I may have found all I can. It's been years now since I last did that as I took a long hiatus from this site. But I may go through it once more just to see if I pick up anything else. And I gotta put more quotes and stuff on it anyways.
Continuity mistake: In Metropolis on the bridge, Doomsday grabs a soldier and breaks his neck and skull. In that shot, the soldier's arms are inside Doomsday's hand and his hair is a light brown or gray. But then when the shot changes as Doomsday begins to throw the soldier to the side, the soldier's arms are suddenly outside of Doomsday's hand, and his hair is now black. (00:17:10)
[The Superman clone takes Toyman high into the air.]
Toyman: I have rights. I have nothing to say to you.
Superman Clone: [stops in midair] How about goodbye? [Lets go of Toyman and watches him fall to his death].
Question: So how exactly did Doomsday's ship get buried so deep? On the movie the Project Apple Core workers say they discover it's "before Christ deep", but don't specify exactly how old. And they are 2 miles down at the time. Lex Luthor interprets the alien hologram as a warning and says that an alien race must have trapped Doomsday here because they could not kill it. And later the robot at the Fortress of Solitude identifies Doomsday and tells Superman what it is. I know there are several differences between the film and the comics it's based on. Are there differences in how Doomsday got there and how is it so deep?
Answer: In the comic book, Doomsday was put in a strait-jacket, strapped in metal bondage and placed in a cube like metal prison buried deep in the earth. It took him centuries just to break the bonds, then spent more centuries just punching his way out. With earthquakes, volcanoes and other natural disasters those events could shift Doomsday's prison to the surface.