Rating:  -
Great movie. Not quite an accurate adaptation of the comic, but close enough - and it did succeed in capturing the look and feel of Darwyn Cooke style.
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Like others mention in their reviews for this item, these are the characters and heroes that I remember from my youth. While I appreciate the work that goes into the new versions of Justice League or the Batman animated series, the characters in New Frontier are closer to the classics I read and so thoroughly enjoyed in the past.
The story here is a bit weak and convoluted in the villian that must be fought, but the animation is top notch, the characters come with the history that I remember and seeing them come together to work as a team is quite fun.
I hope this is just the start of more stories set in the same era and virtual world.
5 stars for the nostalgia, 3 stars for the story, leaving a 4 star product for those that want to purchase it.
Rating: -
This is well done production. It didn't stray far from the book, which is good. I got a kick out of the fact that Wonder Woman is taller than Superman. It lost a point because the extras, while semi-interesting, they don't seem worth the money. Of course, I should just stop paying for any extras because it doesn't matter what I buy, they don't seem worth it. Anyway, both the story and animation were a pleasure to watch. Even my wife, not a fan of either comics or animation, thoroughly enjoyed it. Hal Jordan as the main character is a great concept.
Rating:  -
The DVD is a scattering of interesting stories that are never actually touched upon, interspersed by disconnected scenes of the heroes trying to track down a thing called 'the center.' No hero does any actual work finding it, it is never insinuated that the heroes ever work together and so is a big surprise when they do (poorly) at the end, and characterization is flat and hollow and the same for everyone. The end battle is less exciting than any episode of a cartoon about card games and half of what happens in the movie is random and unexplained. This is the least entertaining of Timm's works I have ever seen and I have seen everything he's done with the DC universe that is available.
Rating:  -
The Silver Age Superheroes are wonderfully represented in this new release. The animation, as with the original Batman and Superman series from the 90's, captures the spirit of the Justice League from the late 50's and 60's, the space race, and the paranoia of that time -- in a sad case, it's timely today.
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