Superman: The Animated Series – Supermanpal

Jimmy Olsen and Superman work together to combat Metallo’s return to Metropolis.

Media by Bird Boy
Pans by Borg4of3
Review by Bird Boy

Voices:
Tim Daly as Superman/Clark Kent
Dana Delany as Lois Lane
Malcolm McDowell as Metallo
David Kaufman as Jimmy Olsen
Dina Sherman as Tina
Lauren Tom as Angela Chen
Dave Walsh as Captain Croissant
Larry Cedar as Restaurant Owner
John Mariano as Short Order Cook
Charlie Rocket as Used Car Salesman
Melissa Disney as College Girl

For so long I wondered why I hated Superman so much. Day in, day out, I slammed Superman, I hated Superman, I thought he sucked. Then when I’m watching all of STAS for the first time-I realize Superman rocks. He absolutely rules. Never will he top Batman as my favorite super-hero, but dangit, he’s definitely number two now.

Back to the episode in general-I remember seeing this one on Kids WB!
everytime Batman wasn’t on. I watched it everytime for some reason, and
I couldn’t help but laugh..Superman truly was a crappy show and I found pleasure in dissing it. But, like I said above, it’s different now. I know what STAS was really like and this episode just turned out to be a bunch of crap. I know now that Tim Daly is Superman. I know Dana Delaney is Lois Lane. I know Michael Ironside is Darkseid.. it’s all so much better now that I’m not just a biased Bat-fan.

Maybe I’m hurting this episode too much by saying all of the bad things, but I didn’t see any good coming from it either. Instead, it turned into the Critters of STAS. But, lets try to find some of the good stuff..I know it’s in there somewhere…

Oh yes… the voices. They were about the only solid thing in this episode, and the music wasn’t half-bad (it seemed to get repetitious after awhile though..), but,–I’m already veering off into the bad stuff–, this is the kicker. The big one. The thing that destroyed any hopes of me enjoying this episode the most—it’s animation. Why is it so bad you say? Maybe because it just flat out sucked.

Clark Kent looked fine, but when he went over to Superman, he was so…off model throughout the entire episode…he was almost, how do I say… shiny looking. That on top of Lois’s Marilyn Monroe impression with the flying skirt (“I’ve gotta start wearing pants!”) and Jimmy’s nod at the end. Come ON..Why did his eyelids suddenly become black as night?
What happened to the skin?

After all is said, done and stomached (barely), this was no doubt the single worst episode of STAS I’ve seen-and I’ve seen them all. Only thing this episode was good for was a laugh-mainly just laughing at the aweful-ness.