Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (2011) Reviews

• Atrocious...

  crimson_knight_72014-08-02

  Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, by Christopher Berkeley, Lauren Montgomery, Jay Oliva, was a complete disaster! I don't know if a curse was put on the Green Lantern, but almost every movie starring him has been an abomination. Unlike other Warner Brothers animated movies which offer us a complex and thrilling plot, Emerald Knights examined back story, after back story, after back story for almost every character which not only bored me to death, but it exasperated all the time that could of been used to focus on the main plot. I understand some people don't know the back story of the Green Lanterns, but character development should not consume more than half of the movie especially when the back stories were thematically unoriginal and one dimensionally monotonous. Furthermore, having so many origin stories was incredibly distracting to the flow of the movie. As a TV show this concept would have been much more successful; however, such a theme is completely irresponsible in a movie due to the time restraints of a film. If you examine every DC animated film, you'll notice that maybe 10- 15 minutes is given for a super heroes origins, than it focuses on the main idea which will drive the bus the rest of the way. An excellent example of this structure would be the animated movie Wonder Woman. As much as I like Green Lantern's character, Emerald Knights was incredibly mundane and ultimately scattered. For this reason, I give it a 3.

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• Green Lantern Emerald Knights: For fans only

  Platypuschow2018-01-08

  Emerald Knights has a story it does, but it makes up a small percentage of the film as most of it is short tales being regaled to the newest member of the Lantern Corps. Some are good, some are meh, but the whole thing felt very incomplete due to this. With fantastic voice talent including Nathan Fillion, Henry Rollins & Kelly Hu the effort/budget clearly went into this but alike the original Green Lantern offering I simply don't get the appeal. Weird aliens, bizzare powers and lore that keeps shifting. What bugs me about all these animated movies is that they aren't connected and have no consistency. Characters who died are back, events that happened never took place etc etc and that's very evident here. They really need to make an animated universe and stick with it. Emerald Knights isn't terrible, I'm just not the demographic. The Good: Opening sequence was brutal Kelly Hu & Henry Rollins The Bad: Contradicts the lore in places Spread rather thin Things I Learnt From This Movie: The guardians are smurfs

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• Nice Little Film

  JoeB1312011-06-08

  This is WB and DC doing a little warm-up for the big budget movie on Green Lantern that is coming out this month. As always, the Animation Team probably has a better grasp on the characters and settings than the suits in Hollywood ever do. The Green Lantern Corps faces an inter-dimensional threat, and while they wait for the final confrontation, they tell stories of the greatest accomplishments of the Corps. The movie is probably at its weakest in the fact that they have Nathan Fillian of "Firefly" fame doing the voice of Hal Jordan (Why isn't he doing it in the Live Action version? Why?) but he is only involved in the wrap around story that keeps the plot moving from one section to the next. The stories themselves are quite good, though. Each one a little gem, even if a bit predictable even for the fan who is familiar with this universe.

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• Not as good as First Flight

  WeAreLive2017-12-25

  This was a good movie. Considering there was not enough action but more or less flashbacks of other green lanterns, how green lanterns are trained and what happens to the ring when they die. Even the beginning of the film had a brutal death of a green lantern. But the main reason why I carried on with watching this film was because there was a hot human alien hybrid teenage girl green lantern cadet (Arisia) who was like the main character of the movie to stare at her body. However it is weird that Sinestro hasn't betrayed or tried to betray the Green Lantern corp yet or even become a Yellow Lantern. Also it is a surprise that Abin Sur is still alive or even Atrocities not becoming Red Lantern yet. Overall a decent movie the casting of Nathan Fillion as Green Lantern and Jason Issac as Sinestro was a good choose.

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• It's a pass, unless maybe if your a hardcore Green Lantern fan

  KineticSeoul2015-02-16

  If you are a viewer that is a huge fan of the Green Lantern and want to see more about the history of few teammates of the Green Lantern Corps. Besides that I don't see how anyone can really enjoy this movie. Yes, it has one main mission that the story has, but it's far from it being the focus. And it seemed like it's just there for the teammates to show what they can do in the short amount of running time this movie has. There is just nothing really exciting or interesting about this DC installment. The back-story of the characters doesn't bring anything special, the only somewhat memorable back- story is Laira's, but even that was boring to sit through. Overall, unless you are a hardcore Green Lantern fan and want to know more about Hal's teammates, then I guess it's worth a watch. 4.5/10

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