Superman: Unbound – The ComicBook.com Review

Generally, the DC Universe animated adaptations are strong except one little thing: they tend to be hyper-compressed, losing detail in the hopes of squeezing a story into 70 minutes. But for the second time in the recent past (the first being Superman vs. The Elite), one of them suffers from the oppsite problem: Superman: Unbound takes a shorter comics story and tries to pad it out to a feature film, with the result being a movie that plods along even though its action sequences and performances are great.The film, out on Blu-ray, DVD, On Demand and For Download via Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on May 7, 2013, is based on Geoff Johns and Gary Frank’s Brainiac story–the first of two consecutive DC Universe animated films set to be based on DC Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Johns’s recent output. Somehow, despite a pair of Green Lantern movies made during his long and beloved run on the book, Johns had managed to mostly avoid having his work directly adapted before, but the chickens have come home to roost and if these are successful it’s hard to picture Warner not asking him to take a more active role in developing film properties.