Let me start with the bad one first:
“Highlander: The Search for Vengeance” (2007) lives up to the cheese and camp that made the Christopher Lambert movies a bit unbearable to watch, including the preposterous premise of a two-thousand year old immortal bent on exacting revenge on another, more powerful immortal who killed his wife two-thousand years ago in the highlands of Scotland. Each time the hero, Colin, meets his enemy, Marcus, he gets defeated – and this is where it gets tedious and excruciating. I myself prefer the Adrian Paul version, but hey, if you’re into this kind of thing, I won’t stop you. Just think of it as “Heavy Metal 2000″ meets “Braveheart” with the anime’d hero channeling “Jackass” and you’ll be fine.
“Justice League: A New Frontier” (2007) is better than the aforementioned “Highlander”, afterall, it has Wonderwoman, Superman, Batman, The Flash and The Green Lantern in 1950s McCarthy era battling an evil called “The Center”, pre-Justice League. A bit underwhelming though, as the TV series was much more interesting to watch than this one (then again, you have a whole season to explore the characters, as compared to the 80 minutes or so devoted to this one, so I should not complain), and I kind of miss Hawkgirl. Anyway, it’s still entertaining.
“Superman: Doomsday” (2007) adapts to the animated screen the graphic novel on which this story is based: when Superman dies. Superman battles an evil alien, Doomsday, succeeds in destroying it, but dies fighting him. Lex Luthor steals his body and DNA from his blood sample to create a clone of Superman, and later, an army of Supermen. Lois Lane realizes her boyfriend is not the real Superman (remember Jurassic Park? Same principle: cloned beings always go awry), whilst the real one comes back from the dead and defeats the clone. This is more entertaining than the Justice League movie, but not as fun as the Wonderwoman movie. ^^
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