“Watchmen: Chapter I & II” Review

The animated adaptation of Watchmen exists in this weird void between the highly accurate motion-graphic adaptation and the thematically adrift movie by Zack Snyder. There are some clear strengths this direct-to-video version has over the other versions, and yet, it doesn’t seem to vary much from the comic book. It’s an adaptation so faithful that it lacks any flavor. For as bad as Snyder’s Watchmen was, it still tried something new with the material. The motion comic felt more like a technical...