Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, by Christopher Berkeley, Lauren Montgomery, Jay Oliva, was a complete disaster! I don&#39;t know if a curse was put on the Green Lantern, but almost every movie starring him has been an abomination.<br/><br/>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&#39;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. <br/><br/>If you examine every DC animated film, you&#39;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.<br/><br/>As much as I like Green Lantern&#39;s character, Emerald Knights was incredibly mundane and ultimately scattered. For this reason, I give it a 3.

This is WB and DC doing a little warm-up for the big budget movie on Green Lantern that is coming out this month.<br/><br/>As always, the Animation Team probably has a better grasp on the characters and settings than the suits in Hollywood ever do.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>The movie is probably at its weakest in the fact that they have Nathan Fillian of &quot;Firefly&quot; fame doing the voice of Hal Jordan (Why isn&#39;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.<br/><br/>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.

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&#39;t see how anyone can really enjoy this movie. Yes, it has one main mission that the story has, but it&#39;s far from it being the focus. And it seemed like it&#39;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&#39;t bring anything special, the only somewhat memorable back- story is Laira&#39;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&#39;s teammates, then I guess it&#39;s worth a watch.<br/><br/>4.5/10