The Death of Superman

2018 • 80 minutes
4.5
502 reviews
93%
Tomatometer
PG-13
Rating
Eligible
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About this movie

Based on the acclaimed DC Comics graphic novel comes an epic animated movie showcasing Superman’s greatest battle. An asteroid hurtles through our atmosphere and crashes into the ocean, with it arrives an unstoppable force fueled by uncontrollable rage known only as Doomsday! With innocent lives threatened and Metropolis under attack, Batman, Wonder Woman and the rest of the Justice League rally to meet this otherworldly menace. But when the dust settles, only an epic showdown between Superman and Doomsday can decide the fate of Metropolis and ultimately, planet Earth!
Rating
PG-13

Ratings and reviews

4.5
502 reviews
— DogGoneMadDog!!
July 28, 2018
AWESOME! One of the BEST DCAU movie made so far! Utterly blows the rushed, one-&-done first attempt at this story they attempted with, "Doomsday"! I can't wait for "Reign of Superman" either! I find it funny how critics of passionate posters who actually have something to say, such as Cam against Michael, try to use the old, "we all have a right to our opinion", AFTER ATTACKING SOMEONE ELSE FOR EXPRESSING THEIR OWN OPINION! Get a life you hypocritical little troll, Cam! And BTW: when you pist 1-star ratings & any type of negative review BEFORE a movie has EVER BEEN RELEASED OR YOU HAVE EVEN SEEN IT, NO! You do NOT have the right to post your CLUELESS, OPINIONLESS COMMENTS BECAUSE YOU DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE A CLUE WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT OR WHAT YOUR HONEST OPINION WILL BE WHEN & IF YOU EVER ACTUALLY SEE THE FLICK! You are just being a malicious, infantile hater & attempting the falsely & negatively skew what the true rating would be among actual viewers! That's just pitifully sad! As for idiot trolls like Deadman148, you're the worst type of poster! You are ONLY posting to do harm & to have negative impact on everyone & everything, that's why you hide you identity like the cowardly little self-loathing sociopathic troll that you are! So you just keep on flinging your excrement at everyone & everything to make yourself THINK you matter to ANYONE OR ANYTHING while we barely glance at you in the contemptuous pity your kind deserve, if most of us bother to acknowledge your existence at all that is, before stepping over your sewer-grate & continuing on enjoying our happy lives up here in the real world.
60 people found this review helpful
Michael Cook
July 24, 2018
ALL YOU PEOPLE WHO RATED A 1 STAR BEFORE YOU SAW IT.... "The Death of Superman" was an iconic comic book, it was the death of the first superhero and it made him relatable in that he was no god...but a mortal like the rest of us. It was the first DC comic I ever bought and the story meant the world to me. In a medium where Doomsday was a human hybrid capable of complex thought (Smallville, CW), or some mutated troll with human DNA whose fight scene and death was as forced as the entire DCEU (Batman v Superman), and let's not get into the awful condensed version that was Doomsday the animated movie that came before this...THIS MOVIE NAILED IT! This adaptation pays homage to the source material as it should while being grounded in its own universe PERFECTLY. You really got to see the big blue boy scout's humanity and his insecurities with his relationships. And the beauty of this is that it's a two parter! Worth the hype worth the money and definitely the adaptive experience this story deserves. There are some gripes that purists are going to have but remember that this is an adaptation...much like how the MCU does with its stories. The DCAU...so much better than the DCEU.
72 people found this review helpful
Jackson Washburn
June 8, 2020
Wow this movie tugged my heartstrings. I haven't resonated with Superman on this level in a long time. His role model, "look on the bright side" character is so admirable & his dorky, insecure alter ego is all too relatable. As usual, you can judge a Superman movie by the dynamic between Lois & Clark, & this one soars. Lois is written well & drives Clark's character arc forward. Rainn Wilson's Lex Luthor was good; it's just hard for my brain to separate his voice from Dwight Schrute.