ANI-MOVIES, Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Aquaman-Rage of Atlantis

With a new live-action solo movie on bubbling to the surface, Warner Bros. decided to release a new animated movie based on their King of the Seven Seas, but instead of new DCAU title, they fell back on their kid-friendly Lego line. Taking place in the same continuity as the Lego Batman video games and Lego DC Super Hero animated specials, Rage Of Atlantis combines two unusual corners of the DC Universe, their underwater adventures with cosmic odysseys.

Justice League noob Jessica Cruz is the new Green Lantern on the block, and alerts the rest of the League that super-strong space bounty hunter Lobo is raiding a government facility jammed with dangerous alien tech. Aquaman down in Atlantis gets wind of this and heads arrives on the scene first, but his water powers aren't all that useful in a desert landscape. The League arrives to pull Aquaman's fat out of the friar, but Lobo makes off with a mysterious orb. Aquaman takes the League back to a celebration to his kingdom of Atlantis where Batman is surprised to find out that he's not only married to the lovely waterbender Mera, but that his half-brother Orn is the devious Ocean Master, even though he doesn't seem to have started his bad guy career as of yet. Ocean Master shows them a forged document of the Atlantis laws showing that Aquaman can't be king because he's only half-Atlantean, and convinces the other sea folk to make him their new leader thanks to a rage-inducing Red Lantern power battery after secretly teaming up with the Reds leader Atrocitus. Orn has Aquaman and the League locked up, but our heroes manage to breakout, and discover the Red Lanterns are planning an Earth invasion using the mind-controlled Atlanteans as their army. Everyone but Green Lantern escapes to an alien world near a red sun, which instantly robs Superman of his powers. So a distraught Aquaman pulls his act together to find Lobo at a literal local watering hole, and convinces the Kiss Army reject to help them free Atlantis after Lobo learns his "space dolphin" buddy Fishy(a genuine DC Comics character!)who has also under Atrocitus' control. Meanwhile, Jessica Cruz teams up with Batgirl and the current Robin to preventing the Atlantean's land invasion while the Justice League destroy's the Red Lantern battery, and Atrocitus' plan to drain the planet of all water thanks to a colossal drinking straw!

The story fits to most standards of the DC Comics Lego productions, taking obscure things from the comics lore and bringing them together for a enjoyable family picture, but still manages to shoehorn the needs for characters like Superman and Wonder Woman using pimped out vehicles despite their ability to fly. The dub has Troy Baker back as Batman, Teen Titans Scott Menville as Damien Wayne/Robin, Jonathon Adams returns from the Green Lantern cartoon as Atrocitus, and former-Wonder Woman Susan Eisenberg as Mera. If you're a regular fan of the Lego pictures, or a hardcore DC reader, than this is worth at least a once-over.