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Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (2011)

Green Lantern: Emerald Knights poster
Directed by
Christopher Berkeley, Jay Oliva, Lauren Montgomery
Genre
science fiction film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 24m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 550 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An older Green Lantern tells a younger recruit stories about different members of the Green Lantern Corps. Each story shows a different hero facing a challenge or learning a lesson about being a Lantern.

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What happens

Green Lantern: Emerald Knights is a 2011 American animated superhero film that tells various stories featuring members of Green Lantern Corps, including Abin Sur, Laira, Kilowog, and Mogo. It was released on June 7, 2011. While not a direct sequel to First Flight, the film uses the same character designs. It is the eleventh film released under the DC Universe Animated Original Movies banner. It is also the second DC Animated Movie following Batman: Gotham Knight to feature an anthology format, though unlike the latter, it features a single, uniform animation and visual style and an overall linking story. Animation was outsourced to Studio 4°C, JM Animation and Studio Pierrot. The film received mixed-to-positive reviews with many critics praising the animation, voice acting, and action sequences, but criticizing the story and characterization. Two of the stories ("Mogo Doesn't Socialize" and "Abin Sur") were based on comic stories written by Alan Moore, who has a standing policy of not allowing his name to be used in the credits when his stories are adapted to other media. Although it uses the same name, it has no relation with the 1998 comic book Emerald Knights. Despite the film featuring a standalone story, Nathan Fillion would later reprise the Green Lantern role in several DC films, particularly the DC Animated Movie Universe. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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