This star rating is generous. As much as the animators are doing wonderful work, I didn't enjoy it as much as the first volume - and same went for the original Frank Miller comic. To my memory, this was VERY faithful to that, minus the narration being gone. Maybe that changes things, but I don't think so. It should be fine for most fans hoping to see what they loved brought to this form of cinematic life. For me, it's fine, but not much more, grit and apocalyptic stakes and all.
The animation work is still among the strongest and coolest in the DC animated cannon, but the logical gaps in Miller's storytelling - which I think Christopher Nolan carried over a bit too much into his Dark Knight trilogy (or to put it another way, he learned about as much as he could from Miller, all the good AND the bad) - are too much to ignore, even when he does some clever things like the satire with Superman (he has a friggin' Bald Eagle perch on his arm and fights the Ruskies almost single-handed! Take THAT Dr. Manhattan!) and a couple of cool touches.
Where's the *detective* when you need him?
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