Emerald Knights is the second animated movie from DC featuring Green Lantern. This film isn't as much about Hal Jordan as it is about some other lanterns. Told continuously in six sub stories, this is by far one of the best comic/animated films to date by either Marvel or DC.
The art direction was great, the voice acting was superb, and the story was entertaining...this is what should have hit the theater...or something like it. We learn about the first Lantern, Kilowag, Abin Sur, Mogo, and others as the stories unfold seamlessly. These are the type of comic movies, or even TV series that could be watched forever.
Touted as "like Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight", which was pretty awesome in it's own right. The only flaw, if you want to call it that, is that the difference in art styles was tough to see. Supposedly, each story arch had different artists and genres, but other than slight differences they all looked the same. That being said they all looked great. IF you saw Batman: LDK then you know what they mean by different art styles, or perhaps HALO: Legends, or the Animatrix. Those were all shorts and each being distinctively different...where Emerald Knights is a continuous story. I suppose they couldn't go too far off the reservation with the art.
At every turn where the Live Action movie failed this anime succeeded brilliantly!!! I can't wait for more GL properties to me animated. The series is coming out this fall, but I'd really like to see a series of Darkest Night Stories.
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