DC Super Hero Girls: The Movie

DC Super Hero Girls: The Movie is a 2023 American animated superhero film based on the television series DC Super Hero Girls (2019). The events of the film take place after the second season of the series and Teen Titans Go and DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse and the third season. It is the most recent feature film to date from Warner Bros. Animation to be released theatrically outside of Warner Animation Group. It also serves as the finale of the DC Super Hero Girls television series after its cancellation.
The film features the voices of Grey DeLisle, Tara Strong, Myrna Velasco, Kimberley Brooks and Kari Wahlgren reprising their respective roles from the series, while Djimon Hounsou, Jason Momoa, Jess Harnell, Keegan Michael-Key, Auli'i Cravalho, Christian Slater, Allias Salmon and Diamond White join the cast. It was theatrically released on July 12, 2023, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film was released with an attached Farm League short starring Super-Manatee and Bat-Mongoose entitled Mongoose v. Manatee: The Dawn of Farmstock, based on the DC Nation shorts. The film received mixed-to-negative reviews with some praising the voice acting and animation while others criticized the writing, character derailment, pacing and for being inferior to the DC Universe Animated Original Movies. DC Super Hero Girls: The Movie received a nomination for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards (losing against Mikasa: The Movie) while also receiving nominations for Best Animated Feature Film (also lost against Ice Age: Lost in the Tar Pits).
== Synonyms ==
The Super Hero Girls must team up with old allies and enemies to fight against Darkseid to save Earth before Graduation Day.
==Plot==
On the planet of Apocalypse, The Children of Darkseid were ordered by their master about to take over Earth and will not let any hero stand in his way. n Earth, the Super Hero Girls fight against their enemies Super Villain Girls, but a boom tube opens unleashing creatures called Parademons, the heroes and villains join forces and defeat them all.
The Girls took one of The Parademons to S.T.A.R Labs as it was studied by Doctor Ray Palmer, Palmer said that Parademons are genetically created in Apokolips' laboratories and serve as a loyal army to their master... Darkseid. Being a clue of Kryptonian origin, Supergirl goes to her cousin Clark to translate it. But Clark said that Darkseid was one of Krypton's enemies but was defeated many times and can beat anyone. Clark warns Kara about Darkseid is dangerous and Clark has a weapon called The Mother Box to stop him.
The girls head to the Fortress of Solitude to search for The Mother Box before Graduation Day. But they are confronted by the Superman Robots, and then the real Superman and the Justice League but Darkseid arrives and destroy The Mother Box and revealed his plan that he will invade the world by dawn and put people in slavery and left.
The Girls decided to call a meeting to all superhero and villain to help fight Darkseid and his army for good. Superman reveals that the invasion is a prelude to the terraforming of Earth. Darkseid arrives and proves to be an extremely powerful opponent and the entire heroes and villains is hopelessly outmatched.
During the fight, Giganta, Doctor Light, and Steve Trevor get killed off by Steppenwolf and the heroes and villains got captured and taken to Apocalypse. The Girls arrives on Apocalypse to rescue their friends but Darkseid attacks Earth. The Super Hero Girls, the Legion of Doom, the Invinci-Bros, and the Justice League return to Earth and battle Darkseid as Bumblebee uses The Broken Mother Box reopens the Boom Tubes to send Darkseid and his army back to Apocalypse. Darkseid fights back, the group eventually force him through the portal. With the world saved, The Girls finished Graduation Day and hope what the future will bring them while Jessica and Hal started dating and Babs reconciled with her father.
==Voice cast==
*Grey Griffin as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman
*Tara Strong as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl, Barbara Ann Minerva/Cheetah, Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn, Volcana, Jinx, Helena Bertinelli/Huntress and Batwoman (Kate Kane)
*Mae Whitman as Kara Danvers/Supergirl (replacing Nicole Sullivan)
*Myrna Velasco as Jessica Cruz/Green Lantern
*Kari Wahlgren as Zee Zatara/Zatanna, Julia Kapatelis and Carol Ferris/Star Sapphire
* Kimberly Brooks as Karen Beecher/Bumblebee and Eliza Danvers
*Jason Spisak as Hal Jordan/Green Lantern
*Phil LaMarr as Barry Allen/The Flash, John Stewart/Green Lantern, Giovanni Zatara and Carter Hall/Hawkman
*Eddie Perino as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow
*Jessica McKenna as Garth Bernstein/Aqualad
*Max Mittleman as Clark Kent/Superman and Ted Kord/Blue Beetle
*Keith Ferguson as Jeremiah Danvers, Sinestro, Dick Grayson/Robin and Bruce Wayne/Batman
*Fred Tatasciore as Commissioner Gordon and Mr. Chapin
*Cree Summer as Queen Hippolyta and Selina Kyle/Catwoman
*Djimon Hounsou as Darkseid
*Keegan-Michael Key as DeSaad
*Will Friedle as Lex Luthor and Aquaman/Arthur Curry
*Christian Slater as Killer Croc
*Jason Momoa as himself (cameo)
*Ben Affleck as himself (cameo)
*Charlie Schlatter as Winslow Schott/Toyman
*Allias Salmon as himself/The Cenozoic Warrior (cameo)
*Diamond White as Donna Troy/Wonder Girl
*Kevin Michael Richardson as Steppenwolf and Dexter/Dex-Starr
*Auli'i Cravalho as Mera
*Jess Harnell as Orm the Ocean Master
*Stephanie Lemelin as Shiera Sanders Hall/Hawkgirl
*D. C. Douglas as Deathstroke
*Vanessa Marshall as Black Canary (Dinah Laurel Lance)
*Diedrich Bader as Guy Gardner
*Matt Ryan as John Constantine
*Kelly Hu as Cheshire
*Dwight Schultz as Mad Hatter
*Jacob Tremblay as Gizmo
*Thom Adcox-Hernandez as Klarion
*Yvette Nicole Brown as Amanda Waller
*Ramone Hamilton as Anthony Ivo
*Jack Dylan Grazer as Mist
*Denise Boutte as Raquel Ervin/Rocket
*Deborah Strang as Gretchen Goode/Granny Goodness
*Patton Oswalt as Ray Palmer/The Atom(First appearance)
Giganta, Steve, Katana, The Riddler, Doctor Light, Rough House, Solomon Grundy, Riddler, Livewire and Poison Ivy make silent appearances in the film
==Production==
==Music==
The film was scored by Ice Age composer John Powell with the theme music composed by Michael Gatt.
==Release==
==Trivia==
* The Super Hero Girls and Super Villain Girls have become young adults after the series' events.
* Jessica and Hal officially become a couple in this film.
*Giganta, Doctor Light, and Steve Trevor get killed off in the film during the enslavement of Darkseid and the Parademons when they tried to fight back.
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Category:DC Comics
Category:Warner Bros. Animation
Category:Animated adventure films
Category:Wonder Woman
Category:Supergirl
Category:Batgirl
Category:Superhero films
Category:Film scores by John Powell