DC Showcase: The Phantom Stranger (Short 2020)

DC Showcase: The Phantom Stranger: Directed by Bruce Timm. With Peter Serafinowicz, Grey Griffin, Natalie Lander, Michael Rosenbaum. A young girl, seeking adventure and emancipation from her “establishment” parents, is taken, by a band of hippie acolytes, to meet their guru. Can even the mystical power of The Phantom Stranger help Marcie to find her own truth?

“Where to start?nTerrible 1960u0026#39;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 u0026quot;psychedelicu0026quot; 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…nOH 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!nSerophinorwitz is awful at the best of times but here, he really abuses the privilege.nAll in all not what you would expect from Bruce Timm unless he is deliberately trying to wreck his own career.”