Superman and the originality of the superhero genre 'The Man of Tomorrow' The title is not very good, especially considering that the film is full of aliens and freaks, and the topic of Superman’s foreign origin is one of the key ones here. This is a good cartoon, and in this case the directors themselves decided that, because, unlike many other works ' DC' in animation, they tried to do everything at the best level. Good artistic style, rich color scheme and smooth animation - all this is nice to look at, especially in contrast to the disproportionately more poor & #39; Death of Superman' 2018, the conveyor-line consumer goods, which is not often departed from to create something decent.
Visual merits ' Man of Tomorrow', of course, is not limited, because there is a beautiful picture without, albeit simple, but curious story. Contrary to the existing positive examples, superheroics, in my opinion, is not a cinematic genre at all - stories about superstrong people in bright costumes are so conceptually specific that it goes against all the norms of objective reality, which are in vain trying to observe in movies, but in comics and animation, where, due to artistic techniques and features of the narrative, the world and characters are much more conventional and concise, and the boundaries of the real and impossible are blurred, the superhero genre feels great. In other words, this story about Superman could never become a subject for film production, but within the framework of animation, he amazingly feels great, having time to tell and show a huge variety of everything at once, maintaining the coherence of its components and uniformity of events, as well as their logic, almost always. In a movie with live actors, the very appearance of so many aliens would seem like a bad joke, and here, due to this unconscious specificity of the animation, thanks to the style, mood and pace of the picture, the appearance of Lobo, and then the Martian, is perceived as something strange, but generally appropriate. Thanks to the same genre abstraction, for an hour and a half of timekeeping, a complete complete story is told, in which all the actors manage to manifest themselves, and especially Superman, who is not the savior of the world here, because in this case he does not succeed, namely, that he is a stranger who is afraid that when people find out who he is, then they will reject him, the embodiment of which Lex Luthor also manages to appear, far from being so smart and powerful as it is customary to portray him, which is even for the better.
At the same time, the cartoon is quite mundane and does not go to absurdity and extremes, it is quite chambered and gives the impression of a living world, and a pinch of violence and death adds the necessary seriousness. The plot is certainly not brilliant, about an alien who wants to be a man, about a man who has turned into a monster, about a third who sees a threat to both of them, but it is foldable and moderately stupid, and most importantly, attractive and dynamic enough to be followed, framed in a good visual range. A cartoon where Superman is not a boring, invulnerable hero, but a character who suffers defeat, but who is determined by his intentions to continue what he believes and stands for. A hero you can love, a picture that will not be superfluous to see