Written by Duane Capizzi And Bruce Timm
Directed by Bruce Timm And Lauren Montgomery And Brandon Vietti
Dark Superman: "Protect... the people..."
Superman: "It's why I'm here."
There was an animated two parter released over a decade after this movie and not to mention, Batman V. Superman. Why do I bring those up? Because this movie was the first attempt to delve into the death of Superman.
Yes, we've got a Superman (Adam Baldwin) who's currently in a relationship with Lois Lane (Anne Heche) and the latter's working out that Superman and Clark Kent are the same person. It also didn't help that Superman was doing an exceptionally bad job of convincing get otherwise.
Then there's Doomsday, whose spaceship got unearthed by LexCorp workers. Doomsday didn't waste time in causing chaos in Metropolis and the movie also didn't waste time in having Doomsday and Superman and the latter to die in Lois's arms and it's pretty sad to see.
Of course, Superman's death wouldn't stick permanently but it was interesting to see how his death not only affected Lois and Martha Kent (Swoosie Kurtz) but also Perry White (Ray Wise) and Jimmy Olsen (Adam Wylie) too. Lois and Martha in particular have some nice scenes.
However, not only was Lex desperate to keep LexCorp's involvement with Doomsday a secret but he also had a clone version of Superman nearly fooling everyone. Of course the clone suddenly developed a mind of his own and the real Superman came back into the mix.
There's a great battle between the real and fake versions of Superman with the former eventually being victorious. Then there's a lovely final scene where Lois's suspicions were confirmed in the funniest of ways.
- Lex killed Mercy Graves (Cree Summer) to keep his secret and the final scene indicated that he had another idea to kill Superman.
- Jimmy had quite the Daily Planet to work for a gossip magazine. He also helped Lois get one over on Lex.
- We got the solar suit and mullet for Superman when he was he resurrected. Kevin Smith also had a cameo in a scene involving Toyman (John DiMaggio).
- Chronology: Not a huge amount of time passed between Superman dying and being reborn.
Superman: Doomsday was a great adaptation of this particular story. Some great action sequences, emotional moments, decent subplots and the promise of a very vengeful Lex Luthor. I really liked this one.
Rating: 7 out of 10
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