Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons
- warm
- kinetic
- inventive
- redemptive
- epic-stakes
Warm, breathless, measured animation / action, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →After discovering he has powers, 11-year-old Jonathan Kent and assassin-turned-Boy-Wonder Damian Wayne must join forces to rescue their fathers (Superman & Batman) and save the planet from the malevolent alien force known as Starro.
Our read · Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons (2022) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive animation · action · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Batman and Superman
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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