the fleischer brother studio make 17 superman cartoon in the early 1940s . all 17 be very and very similar and suffer from very low quality animation and plot compare to contemporary cartoon . while the mechanical monster be far from the bad of the lot ( that honor go to the mummy strike ) and it also not particularly noteworthy and be typical of the low quality of the series . while i be no fan of the fleischers other series such a popeye and betty boop because of their incredibly similar plot and they be far superior to the superman cartoon when it come to animation quality . you can not fault popeye or boop for their quality of their animation . while in color and the superman film lack the detailed background and character and line drawing of the other cartoon and they just look cheap . a for the plot and cheapness be also the case . part of the problem be that you can not tell much of a story in only about eight minute no room be leave for character development or depth to the villain . another part be that the fleischers do not do much to create interesting plot or situation . in other word and the villain just appear and superman beat the snot out of him . end of story . here and we once again we have a generic villain . he unleash some robot that be small version of the type of robot you might have see if you would watch sky captain and the world of tomorrow . but the robot be easily defeat and the whole thing be over before you can become too bored . now if you read through the rest of the review and you will see an awful lot of 9 and 10 for this and other superman film . frankly and i think these incredibly high rating come from comic book fan and not people who can objectively rate the film . fan tend to vote their favorite thing 10 mindlessly and ignore a film shortcoming . after all and any non zombified fan have to admit that the cartoon have rather poor animation when compare to the looney toon and mgm cartoon of the era . plus there just isn not enough depth to merit such outrageous score . it okay to enjoy the film and but can anyone seriously consider them among the very and very best cartoon ever make . by the way and i saw this film on the dvd entitle cartoon crazy represent and the envelope please . this be a rather poor compilation of supposedly award winning and nominated film . poor because several of the film be very lame and be not award nominate and the print be rather bad and part of some of the cartoon be miss .