Review: All-Star Superman Is Most Ambitious Man of Steel Movie Ever: With equal parts brain and brawn, the animated adaptation of Grant Morrison's mind-wiping comic delivers the intelligence upgrade so sorely needed by superhero cinema.
All-Star Superman is the smartest Superman movie ever made.
A sizable portion of the credit for the full-length animated film’s cerebral and visual ambition belongs to writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely, whose Eisner-winning All-Star Superman comic book miniseries blew critics and readers’ minds with an out-of-continuity recounting of Superman’s last days.
The film remains faithful to Morrison and Quitely’s comics without watering down their fringe science, astronomical action, earnest romance and envelope-pushing comedy.
All-Star Superman remains a loyal, loving cinematic distillation of one of the writer’s most memorable efforts, as well as the most thematically and emotionally ambitious Man of Steel film in existence.
All-Star Superman, the comics and the film, find Superman at his sweetest, his most human, precisely because they ask so much of him rather than saddling him with a couple of easily surmountable challenges, or, worse, recounting his oft-told back story for a new generation.