DC Showcase: The Phantom Stranger

Where to start? Terrible 1960's style parody animation, Scooby Doo parody characters, bad graphic design and titles...The story, such as it is, has been done better a dozen times before, the music is terrible and the "psychedelic" effects look like they were done by a five year old, throwing oil on a puddle and a supposed master sorcerer mispronouncing Ouroboros is unforgivable and then... OH boy... and then Peter Serophinorwitz doing the worst Mike Berry impersonation imaginable for the voice of the Phantom Stranger to the point where the cringe factor makes you want to chew your own ears off! Serophinorwitz is awful at the best of times but here, he really abuses the privilege. All in all not what you would expect from Bruce Timm unless he is deliberately trying to wreck his own career.

Eerie and morbid. Lots of philosophical undertones. The animation style reminded me of OG Ben 10.

DC needs to bring more underdog characters like this in the DCEU fold. These characters will make the DCEU brand thrive for years to come.

Nice ambience and best background theme, perfectly sync with story.

Not upto the mark. The plot was below average . The cgi was okay but it was not entertaining.

I enjoyed this. Definite shades of Scooby-Doo at the beginning. Only minus for me was Peter Serafinowicz's voice acting. I know Phantom Stranger is a powerful being entitled to make proclamations when he wants, but he sounded too 'hammy' compared to the rest of the cast, like he was in a stage production. Still an 8/10 though.