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Complete Superman Cartoons: Diamond Anniversary EditionRating:
Release Date: 01 August, 2000 Retail Price: $9.99 OUR Price: $9.99 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: |
Complete Superman Cartoons: Diamond Anniversary Edition Reviews
FINALLY A COMPLETE, AND GREAT LOOKING SET!
The AWESOME set of the great Fleischer Superman Cartoons of the 40's is the ONLY set to own. These are out there on so many lousy public domain versions for a few bucks, but spend the extra money and get this set. The Popeye cartoons and Betty Boop notwithstanding, this IS the Fleischer's best work. All 17 Superman cartoons have been fully restored and are simply some of the best animation ever.
I've seen these so many times over the year and never get tired of seeing the brilliant, movie-like animation. The fluidity, the colors is simply dazzling. This is why I love animation. It does not get any better.
This was the classic Superman of the early 1940's, battling mad scientists, saboteurs, giant robots, and all kinds of criminal elements. Here are my favorite episodes:
"The Mechanical Monsters" A mad scientist is using a collection of giant robots to steal money and precious items around Metropolis. The Mad Inventor sends his robots to a jewelry store to steal a large collection of gems. During the chaos, Lois Lane tries to stop the robots, but is trapped inside the hull of one of the gigantic mechanical monsters. Quickly, Clark Kent heads into a phone booth and changes to Superman. He follows the fleet of giant robotic crooks, but is stopped when he becomes tangled in a power line. Lois is found by The Scientist and is tied to a chair, and is about to be placed under a kettle of molten metal. Superman escapes the power lines and flies to the mountain hideout of the renegade inventor. He not only saves Lois Lane, but he destroys the robots and captures their crazed creator.
"The Mummy Strikes" - An Egyptologist is found dead in the tomb of an ancient Egyptian king, and his assistant is mistakenly convicted of the crime. Clark Kent is summoned by one of the dead professor's colleagues to try to find the truth of the matter. Clark discovers what really killed the professor, but, in so doing, accidentally awakens the ancient, giant mummies who guard the tomb. Lois and Clark are trapped with the reanimated mummies. Clark has to become Superman in order to save Lois and the professor.
"The Underground World" Underground caverns and the promise of an exclusive story for the Daily Planet make this an exciting adventure for Lois Lane and Clark Kent. Clark, Lois and a professor journey to a lost underground cavern. There, they find a lost race of birdmen! The excitement turns to danger when Lois is captured by the giant bird people. Lois and the professor are to be sacrificed and Superman has to save the day.
"Jungle Drums" - Lois Lane's plane goes down in Nazi-controlled territory in Africa while she is in possession of top-secret military intelligence documents. She is captured and taken to a secret Nazi base in the jungle. It's up to Superman to save Lois from death at the hands of natives (with bones in their noses) who are controlled by a Nazi dressed as a jungle god.
"Superman" The very first superman toon! In this, the first Superman cartoon, we see how The Man Of Steel first came to Earth. After Krypton's tragic destruction, he was found by the side of the road in rural Kansas and spent most of his childhood in an orphanage. An adult Clark Kent becomes a reporter for The Daily Planet. Perry White assigns Clark and Lois Lane to get information about a mad scientist who is threatening to destroy the city with a new super ray gun. But Lois wants to cover the story alone. Lois flies to the mad scientist's lab and is captured by the renegade inventor. Watching helplessly, Lois witnesses the super ray gun destroying many of the city's landmarks, including the Daily Planet building. Clark Kent changes into Superman and flies to the scientist mountaintop lab where he destroys the ray gun, saves Lois and brings the mad inventor to justice.
This set really has it all...Sci-Fi, Fantasty, Horror, monsters, Robots, Nazis...truly a dream collection. Highest recommendation possible!
Old School, New Life
Plain and simple, this disc is the classic Max and Dave Flescher rending of Superman. Forget the Fortress of Solitude, the Phantom Zone, Brainiac, and Bizzaro. This is rough and tumble, rough cut, and "unplugged" Superman. The plots are simple, the violence is limited, and the moral fiber is all there. Thank goodness these shorts have been preserved for posterity.
The most refreshing thing about these cartoons is that they are not anime. The odd angles, weird facial features, and mysterious blue and green hair are missing. The edges are rounded, the lines curved and the colors subdues. Personally, it is easier on my eye to look at this. And the 1940's backdrops make me laugh--just compare the curved and lumbering Studebakers and De Sotos to the harsh and razor-edges lines of the more recent super-autos, and you see my point.
These classic toons not only retain the early moral fiber, but the charm of the a far more innocent day. I wonder if, in the intervening half-century we have gotten any better.
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