berg-27 I've been away from the board for a while so bear with me.I was never really a superman fan but I saw the movie two nights ago and I new who superman was and stuff and I thought it was a fairly well done movie.I really liked to part where clerk and Lois are at the resteraunt and when she "findes out" that Clark is superman The quotes are to establish the question, you'll have 2 see the movie to find out what I meant.I grew up watching Batman mostly but superman is starting to grow on me.

mikexx WHO STOLE BRAINIAC'S BRAIN? Well, folks; I hope you enjoyed the fifteen years between 1991 and 2006 with Bruce Timm's high standards of excellence in scripts and animation -- because the abysmally awful dialogue running through this moooovie is straight out of the worst of the 1970's Hanna-Barbarra lame-brain era.How awfully bad is this movie? Lex Luther and Brainiac, evil geniuses extraordinaire, are reduced to smirking numbskulls uttering inane dialogue. -- I cannot fathom a *conscious* reason for this, either, since even "explanatory" dialogue (in which everyone always explains everything they're doing as they're doing it, so elementary school kiddies will "get it") needn't be as horrible as this.Powers Booth? Lance Henrickson? -- I have an idea: Let's animate the corpse of Ted Knight, and let him read all the parts in the same lobotomized histrionics which put a fork in "Stupid Friends".Everyone involved in production, writing and editing should be sentenced to the Agony Matrix: Direct neural stimulation of pain-receptors. All of them. Forever.*Sigh*....back to anime for anything remotely engaging on television. Lord knows I won't get it from this, or Squidbillies, or any of the other stupefyingly rotten home-made junk the Cartoon Network is running now.

Norman Cook Everything about this direct-to-DVD movie looked rushed. The animation is serviceable, but nothing spectacular. Tim Daly and Dana Delany do their usual good jobs as Superman and Lois, and Lance Henriksen is OK as Brainiac. There are some new voices for Perry and Jimmy that take a little getting used to. There's a nice subplot with Jimmy and Luthor's henchwoman, but the Mercy Graves character is watered down from what we've seen in the past. The biggest faults of this movie, however, are the writing, and Powers Boothe as Lex Luthor. Luthor comes off as a wimpy, comic relief, not the megalomaniac we've seen him as in other Superman and Justice League episodes. There is never any real sense of danger from either Brainiac or Luthor – there were a lot things going "boom," but it all seemed like pointless paint-by-numbers. The love story between Supes and Lois gets some lip service (no pun intended) but ultimately nothing comes of it, as usual. Veteran Superman animators Curt Geda and Duane Capizzi have done much better in the past; I was very surprised they were responsible for this mediocre project.

Taigan Excited by the release of the Animated Superman's 3rd season and the 2nd of Justice League, I decided "what the heck" and bought Braniac Attacks on DVD. There, quite simply, could have been no worse way to spend $15. The counter on my DVD player read one minute and 34 seconds when I realized I had made a mistake. It's one thing if they couldn't get Clancy Brown to reprise his role as Luthor, but it seems that the writers also forgot who he was. This Lex Luthor was far more reminiscent of Gene Hackman's unbelievable geek (and, as I understand, the upcoming Kevin Spacey portrayal). The characters all have drifted from their origins (since when did Lois actually *moon* over Superman?) I am not one to be surprised when direct-to-video animation sequels turn out to be cheap imitations of the original, but this is so far beyond that! Whether you are a fan of the series yourself, or have kids who are, you absolutely should *not* waste money on this piece of trash.