Legion of Super-Heroes Review

 

Legion of Super-Heroes is an animated direct-to-video comic book film based on the DC Comics' team of the same name. It's also the sixth film in the Tomorrowverse series. It's produced by DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation and distributed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Legion of Super-Heroes is written by Josie Campbell and directed by Jeff Wamester.

The story is Superman's cousin Kara is still devastated by the loss of Krypton. He later takes her to the 31st century to meet the Legion of Super-Heroes. They later on to team-up when a group called the Dark Circle in searching for a powerful weapon. A weapon that's in the Legion's vault. Can the Legion pull through, or will the Dark Circle be victorious?

Initial Reaction

The reason for wanting to see this is because so far I've really been enjoying the Tomorrowverse films. Granted even though I didn't hate Green Lantern: Beware My Power, it certainly isn't one that I was gonna be rewatching from time to time. But that's besides the point, the point is I was looking forward to the newest installment of this series.

Cons

The only thing I truly hated about the movie was Mon-El. Boy, they did this character dirty. Not only did they put an unnecessary twist to his character, but he barely does anything. He got one fight scene, but during said fight he was mainly getting his ass kicked, and then he just defeated. They might as well just replaced him with a different character because this was not Mon-El, at all.

Middle Ground

Now I'll admit the movie is predictable in some areas. But the reason I'm not too bummed out about is because there's still a lot more to enjoy from this movie than there is to hate. So while I will be bringing the rating for this film down, it's not gonna be all that negative.

Pros

One pro is the animation. This time around I felt like they were playing more with the colors. Cause there's two really good shots in this. One with Batman hiding in the shadows, and another with Supergirl being surrounded with this gorgeous blue lights. Another thing I liked was the storylines with Supergirl and Brainiac 5. Supergirl has to learn to move on from the loss of Krypton, while Brainiac 5 needs to prove to everyone he's nothing like the previous villainous Brainiacs. Then there's the fact they both have to put up with each other. It was a nice bit of character building as suppose to some fun action scenes. The last thing to give credit to is the post-credit scene. While yes, there's not much of a "what's gonna happen next?" moment. What made it good was it had an actual build up. At first I thought it was gonna be a stupid/pointless comedic bit with Supergirl, Brainiac 5, and Superman, thankfully that wasn't the case. Sure it started out that way, but it slowly turned into a more mature scene, that'll get you hyped for the next movie, that being Justice League: Warworld.

Overall while there are still some issues with this film, it's not only a better installment than the last Tomorrowverse movie but, there's still a lot of things in here that you'll most likely enjoy.

My final rating is, Good.

That's going to do it for me. Come back on Saturday, Feb 11th, for my review of the newest Apple TV+ film, Sharper. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.