Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay (animated movie)

[Enterprise is Great]

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=22727

Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay finds Amanda Waller's top secret "Task Force X" – Deadshot, Bronze Tiger, Killer Frost, Captain Boomerang, Harley Quinn and Copperhead – on a mission to retrieve a mystical object so powerful that they're willing to risk their own lives to steal it. But the Suicide Squad isn't the only group of villains seeking to possess the object. The race is on for the golden prize … and, to stay alive, second place isn't an option.

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Cast list:

The all-star cast is led by Christian Slater (Mr. Robot, Archer, True Romance) in his DC Universe Movies debut as the voice of Deadshot, who heads "Task Force X" alongside Billy Brown (How To Get Away With Murder) as Bronze Tiger, Liam McIntyre (Spartacus: War of the Damned, The Flash) as Captain Boomerang, Kristin Bauer van Straten (True Blood, Once Upon a Time) as Killer Frost, Gideon Emery (Teen Wolf) as Copperhead, Tara Strong (Batman: The Killing Joke) as Harley Quinn and their "boss," Vanessa Williams (Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives) as Amanda Waller. Villainous forces in the film include C. Thomas Howell (Outcast, The Outsiders, Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox) as Zoom, Dania Ramirez (Devious Maids, Heroes, Once Upon a Time) as Scandal Savage, James Urbaniak (Difficult People, The Venture Bros.) as Professor Pyg, Julie Nathanson (The Zeta Project, Beverly Hills 90210) as Silver Banshee and Jewelee, and Jim Pirri (Injustice 2) as Vandal Savage & Vertigo.

Other Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay voice cast members include Greg Grunberg (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Heroes) as Steel Maxum, Dave Fennoy (Batman: Arkham Knight, Batman: The Telltale Series) as Blockbuster & Tobias Whale, Cissy Jones (Firewatch) as Knockout, Natalie Lander (The Middle, Justice League Action) as Darma, Trevor Devall (Johnny Test) as Punch, Dave Boat (Family Guy, The Good Dinosaur) as Harvey Dent/Two-Face, and Matthew Mercer (Critical Role, Batman: Bad Blood) as Savage Gunman.

The blu-ray, 4K blu-ray and dvd come out April 10. The movie is rated R.

I think this is the only in continuity animated movie this year. The movie after this is The Death of Superman adaptation.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Why did they go with thin Waller? That was a very brief experiment that only lasted a few years in the comics and has been reverted, as well as on Arrow, where Waller was killed like two or three seasons ago. Even the movie, while not going as far as some of the pre-Flashpoint comics, went with a heavy-set Waller. So, why does this film use the failed version that looks more like Halle Berry than Viola Davis?

 

[Venardhi]

Viola Davis is not heavy-set.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Viola Davis is not heavy-set.

They made her look heavy-set for the movie. Certainly more heavy-set than this animated version.

 

[Christopher]

Why did they go with thin Waller?

These movies are targeted at a teen and young-adult male audience, so they tend to cater strongly to the male gaze and an adolescent idea of what "mature" storytelling is like. Recall Son of Batman, in which Talia al Ghul spent the whole movie in a catsuit unzipped to the waist.

Although -- how long ago did the comics "revert" to a more heavyset Waller? It takes a year or two to make an animated movie. Depending on how recent the change in the comics was, the character designs for the movie may have been locked in before then.

 

[kirk55555]

Yeah, its weird how DC's animated DVDverse still keeps taking stuff from the New 52, when the New 52 in the end failed and sold worse before rebirth then the pre-New was selling. Skinny Waller was especially unpopular from what I remember (although at least they seem to have just made her skinny instead of going for "sexy" like her early New 52 appearances were really trying to do for some stupid reason). At what point do the DVD people realize that the New 52, in the end, didn't work all that well but Rebirth is doing really good? Its like they just really don't want to drop their New 52 based universe, even if a lot of the DVDs from what I've seen have sold worse then the pre-New 52 based animated movies.

As for the trailer, mediocre. I mean, they got Tara Strong as harley at least. But, looking at the cast list, its all d-list TV actors again. I mean, every single time they do this it always ends badly, from jason O'mara as Valiumman...I mean "Batman" to Rosario Dawson being I don't even know as Wonder Woman (to be clear, I like both of these people as normal actors, but they're not good voice actors at all). Maybe Melissa Rauch being so godawful as Harley Quinn actually scared them into hiring a real voice actor to play the character in this, since Harley is one of the more popular characters in the movie.

The story looks generic. Its like its trying to introduce the SS, but between the live action movie and the other animated movie I don't know how much introduction the SS needs to the audience, and this seems like an origin film for the team. I'm definitely not ecited for the movie, but I watch every one DC makes anyway so I'll definitely see it.

 

[JD]

Looks like it could be good. The thing that caught my attention was the "brief graphic nudity" in the content warning. Is that a first for these movies?

 

[Christopher]

Looks like it could be good. The thing that caught my attention was the "brief graphic nudity" in the content warning. Is that a first for these movies?

I believe so, yes. It's only the fourth R-rated one they've done, after The Killing Joke ("for some bloody images and disturbing content"), Justice League Dark ("for some disturbing violence"), and Gotham by Gaslight ("for some violence").