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    Superman/Batman: Public Enemies

    Movie » Superman/Batman: Public Enemies released on September 29, 2009.

    President Lex Luthor uses an oncoming Kryptonite meteor to declare Superman and his partner in crime, Batman as public enemies. He places a $1 billion dollar bounty on their heads. Soon it's heroes and villains going after the World's Finest.

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    Not bad, not bad at all.

    I'm not a big fan of many animated movies mainly because hand to hand fight scenes are hard to draw and choreograph when it's an animated character. Very few animated movies have great hand to hand action scenes, Avatar The Last Airbender being one of the select few that has action scenes that make it almost like your watching a real film. If action isn't done right, then we need a good story to fall back onto. Luckily this has a good story.
     
    The film is based on the comic book arc written by Jeph Loeb, it's interesting that out of all of the comics Jeph Loeb has written, they picked a story that was one of his decent stories instead of one of his great stories like Batman: Hush. However I'm actually surprised how great of a film this turned out to be. 
     
    The Story is that Lex Luther is president and blames Superman for going crazy because of a Kyptonite meteor that is on it's course of destroying earth. A bounty is put on Superman's head and him and Batman have to fight off a bunch of super villains and even superheros who want the cash. It's a pretty good story and simple enough to expand on. 
     
    The animation is really good and I found it amazing how much the comic and movie look alike, even to the point where I found myself looking between the two and not noticing any difference. Even the models in the movie look like the drawings in the comic book.
     
    While this movie is suppose to be a Superman / Batman movie, I noticed that Batman seems to outshine Superman in almost all the scenes they are together. Maybe its because I love it when Kevin Conroy voices Bruce Wayne, he is great every time he does mainly because his voice has such a badassery sound to it. All the actors do great jobs portraying the characters they're assigned and it's great hearing some of the old classic voice actors return to the roles they had in the good old days....all this film needed was Mark Hamill's Joker and it would have been the ultimate reunion.
     
    However I was kind of disappointing that my favorite scene in the comic book was taken out of the movie. There is a scene in the comic where Batman confronts Lex Luther after Superman was done kicking the crap out of him, and Batman tells him "Lex Corp no longer belongs to you, as of this morning Bruce Wayne owns this company and he wants you out of the building" that is one of my favorite scenes in the comic and they toke it out. However some of my favorite scenes like Batman saving Superman from a Kryptonite bullet from Metallo made it into the film and I'm glad it did. 
     
    I don't understand why the film abandoned some of these scenes, especially since this has got to be one of the shortest of the animated films. I'm sure some of the scene could have made it in and time not be an issue, I miss the scene with Batman and Lex Luther, Batman and Superman's group try to take down Lex in the white house, and even the fact that Green lantern wasn't in the film. 
     
    Overall though its a really good film and it all meshes together nicely, even if some of my favorite scenes in the comics were taken out. It's not the best DC animated film, but it isn't the worse. Check it out I recommend it If your a fan of any of these characters.

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