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t. e. Babylon 5: The Road Home is a 2023 American animated film produced by Warner Bros. Animation, animated by Studio Mir and distributed by Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment. The film was directed by Matt Peters, with a screenplay by original Babylon 5 franchise creator, J. Michael Straczynski. The film is the seventh feature film in ...
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Updated: Aug 16, 2023 8:20 pm
Posted: Aug 16, 2023 8:19 pm
Babylon 5: The Road Home is available now for purchase on Digital, 4K HD & Blu-Ray.
You gotta feel for the Babylon 5 fandom. While Star Wars, Star Trek, and even Twin Peaks fans have been fed well with continuing stories or revivals, the B5 loyalists have been sucking space dust. But series creator J. Michael Straczynski recently won the game of licensing chicken by outlasting the unnamed Warner Brothers exec he blames for blocking new Babylon 5 projects for decades. With the greenlights now glowing, the first new entry in the franchise since 2007’s Babylon 5: The Lost Tales is the animated nostalgia fest The Road Home. The beautifully rendered, 79-minute movie celebrates not only Straczynski's patient fanbase, but the returning cast from the original series. Unabashedly sentimental, romantic, and a bit corny at times, The Road Home plays it safe by appealing to contemporary appetites for universe-hopping stories, but uses its deep bench of memorable characters very well.
With nearly two decades of downtime between The Lost Tales and The Road Home, the morbid reality is that some actors from the original cast are no longer with us, including Andreas Katsulas (G'Kar), Mira Furlan (Ambassador Delenn), Jerry Doyle (Chief Michael Garibaldi), and Richard Biggs (Dr. Franklin). But those characters can live on with new voices in animation, which affords The Road Home the special distinction of being the only way Straczynski could make a new B5 project that allows him to use his full ensemble of characters without restrictions or recasting. And he clearly does that with a lot of joy, if not a tremendous amount of originality, because The Road Home is essentially a multiverse traipse through President John Sheridan’s (Bruce Boxleitner) life.
Two years after heroically ending The Shadow Wars, Sheridan hands the keys of Babylon 5’s command to Captain Elizabeth Lochley (Tracy Scoggins) and accepts a statesman role with the 12 World Alliance. While he frets about his place in the universe, he has no such qualms about his love for his beloved wife, Delenn (Rebecca Riedy). Straczynski uses the depth of their relationship as both the movie’s emotional spine and its grounding tether, as Sheridan is turned into a tachyon-triggered time jumper due to a random exposure event.
For the bulk of the film, he bounces to his past, his future, and alternate timelines which provide opportunities to reconnect with characters of note within the B5 canon, or revisit moments in and around the life-changing events of The Shadow Wars.
Jeffrey Sinclair
John Sheridan
Susan Ivanova
Michael Garibaldi
Delenn
Stephen Franklin
Babylon 5: The Road Home is a worthwhile installment for longtime Babylon 5 fans that have been waiting nearly two decades for anything new in the canon. J. Michael Straczynski’s script stridently wears its heart on its sleeve, which will likely land for nostalgic old-timers but play a little cloying for those without prior investment. The standalo...
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The animated movie Babylon 5: The Road Home gives fans the handsomest version of the beloved franchise and a nostalgic story that celebrates the classic characters.
Tara Bennett
Babylon 5: The Road Home: Directed by Matt Peters. With Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Peter Jurasik, Bill Mumy. John Sheridan finds himself transported through multiple timelines and alternate realities in a quest to find his way back home.
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- Animation, Sci-Fi
- Matt Peters
- 2024-03-02
Tony Black Film Stories The Road Home is a brisk, breezy Babylon-5 adventure, steeped in fan nods and nostalgia, but also keyed in to modern storytelling’s fascination with both the multiverse ...
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- Matt Peters
- PG-13
- Warner Bros. Animation
Aug 14, 2023 · Thankfully, on June 15, a trailer for Babylon 5: The Road Home was released. Showing off the new animation style, this trailer projects the same sci-fi energy the franchise is famous for, with the ...
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May 31, 2023 · Babylon 5: The Road Home cast (Image credit: Warner Bros) The fact the movie's animated means that many of the core cast have returned as characters they played a quarter of a century ago, ...
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Jun 15, 2023 · Return to BABYLON 5 as the epic interstellar saga continues with THE ROAD HOME. Travel across the galaxy with John Sheridan as he unexpectedly finds himself...
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