I like the comics very much, feeling rather nostalgic for them for the joy they gave me as a kid. I loved this movie and find it much better than the live-action movie. It was lovely to hear Nathan Fillion as Hal Jordan, and he does do a great job, however I think he was deserving of a little more to do. That said, the animation is crisp and smooth with beautiful colours and detailed backgrounds, and the music is exciting and gives plenty of emotional weight. The writing is sharp, clever and thoughtful, the stories while episodic are told with clarity and heart and all the characters are engaging and have great personalities. The voice acting is very strong, with Jason Isaacs particularly impressive as Sinestro. All in all, Green Lantern: Emerald Knights is pretty much brilliant. 9/10 Bethany Cox
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights
2011
Action / Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights
2011
Action / Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Plot summary
On Oa, the headquarters planet of the intergalactic police force, the Green Lantern Corps, the Guardians of the Universe see alarming evidence that the feared villain, Krona, is coming to destroy the planet. While the Guardians move to evacuate, Green Lantern Hal Jordan helps the unsure new recruit, Arisia, by telling her several stories of fellow Lanterns and the challenges they faced. Through him, we see the adventures of Avra the first Lantern, Princess Laira, Kilowog, the unsociable Mogo and Jordan's immediate predecessor, Abin Sur. When Krona arrives, those stories prove more valuable than anyone expects as Arisia draws a special inspiration from them.
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Green Lantern Emerald Knights: For fans only
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
Not as good as First Flight
This was a good movie. Considoring 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 the 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 suprise 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.