An Unstoppable Android On The Horizon. A Mysterious Fireball Hurtling Toward Earth. A Fearless and Beautiful Reporter who’ll stop at nothing to get her story. Its just another day for the Heroic “Man of Steel”, only this time for better or for worse, he has his unpredictable cousin,”Supergirl” by his side. The Gritty adventure begins as Superman learns about the ruthless Force known as “Brainiac“, who has seized and miniaturized “Krypton’s” capital city of Kandor. Determined to liberate the captured Metropolis and protect his home planet from Braniac’s increasing power, Superman takes on his most menacing enemy yet in this DC Animated original Movie Based on the Gripping Comic Book Miniseries.

Superman: Brainiac is up there as one of the best Superman comic stories/graphic novels of all time, and the animated version takes the story to a whole new level.

The animation is slick (with a couple of minor niggles which are easily over looked in the whole) and some great voice acting by the likes of Matt Bomer as Superman, Stana Katic as Lois Lane and John Noble as Brainiac

We learn one of the origin stories of Brainiac and has thirst for knowledge and how Supergirl came to Earth and how different she is from Superman, because although she was born before Kal-El, Kara Zor-El was in statis on the trip to Earth and never went through the wormhole Kal-el’s ship did, so she is still a teenager who just gained powers under our yellow son, compared to Clark who grew up and learned about them naturally.  Her teenage angst, mainly directed AT Superman for trying to reign her in while she comes to terms with her baby cousin now being 15 years older than her.

We also get to see just how powerful Superman (and Supergirl) really can be, we see both hold back AND cut loose with their powers and emotions (esecially a teenage girls emotions, couple with super powers *shudder*), but there is a lot of character here too, from Superman trying to look after, yet protect his cousin, PLUS his reckless girlfriend Lois, to Lois wanting to take her relationship with Clark public and also getting to know Kara, to Kara finding herself.   Then we also have Brainiacs character, how he works and thinks and why he does what he does.

The films running time of 75 minutes flies past as the story keeps pace really easily.  The story has been lovingly done from the comic story and barely misses a step.

The fight scenes are gorgeous to watch aswell, the animation, as I said above is slick and the character design style is very uptodate

The drawings is crisp and although stylised, looks good too (better than the last Superman/Batman anime anyway).  It has just the right hint of Japanese style anime, but western drawing style that keeps it fluid

This is a perfect Anime/Movie for a fan and even a novice alike.  Lets just hope this summers Man of Steel lives upto the billing, but if not, at least we have one fantastic superman film this year

8/10  you need this in your collection!

~Lone