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Adaptations are hard to nail down correctly. Fans will nitpick every change or subplot removed, and while that comes with the territory, there’s also the concept of adapting to film that must not be overlooked. Animating Grant Morrison’s brilliant All-Star Superman mini-series to the last little detail would probably be a six-hour venture. While streamlining the important elements and arcs into an 78-minute movie makes it feel like a Cliff Notes version, Team Bruce Timm continue their stellar work regardless. I mean, reading A Tale of Two Cities is a wonderful experience, but one still can get the sense of that great literary work through the Cliff Notes, much like watching All-Star Superman.
In their typical high level of quality, All-Star Superman features the voice talent we love in top form and Warner Animation’s great cell animation, but while I did stick up for this Cliff Notes adaptation,...
Adaptations are hard to nail down correctly. Fans will nitpick every change or subplot removed, and while that comes with the territory, there’s also the concept of adapting to film that must not be overlooked. Animating Grant Morrison’s brilliant All-Star Superman mini-series to the last little detail would probably be a six-hour venture. While streamlining the important elements and arcs into an 78-minute movie makes it feel like a Cliff Notes version, Team Bruce Timm continue their stellar work regardless. I mean, reading A Tale of Two Cities is a wonderful experience, but one still can get the sense of that great literary work through the Cliff Notes, much like watching All-Star Superman.
In their typical high level of quality, All-Star Superman features the voice talent we love in top form and Warner Animation’s great cell animation, but while I did stick up for this Cliff Notes adaptation,...
- 2/28/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
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