Top Superhero Movie Websites – Curtsey to Comic-Con
As you may know it’s a Comic-Con going on right now and TemplateMonster could not ignore this kind of event. And here we are with the collection of best website designs for superhero or comic-based movie websites. By the way – as great as the graphic designs are – it’s such a shame we cannot demonstrate the animations, the movie websites are all animated these days and the animations are also worth attention.
Besides, this review is great in terms of seeing how the design approach to the movie websites has changed over the past years. Anywyas, enjoy.
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The Incredible Hulk (2008, Universal Pictures, Marvel Studios, Valhalla Motion Pictures)
This website is truly incredible (just as Hulk is) – the functional elements are taken away from the center leaving the center for awesome animations and photos.
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The Punisher: War Zone (2008, Lions Gate Films, Marvel Studios, Valhalla Motion Pictures)
Even though the movie was not a great success judging by the box office data, the website is truly amazing, with creepy graphics and animations. Even the mouse pointer is in made the general style.
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Pictures)
The sequel of Michael Bay’s 2007 movie, this one also has a pretty nice website. But it shows that it wasn’t Michael Bay who has directed the website – no explosions, fires and special effects. However the websites does look decent and does perform its direct goal – to inform.
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Superman Returns (2006, Warner Bros., Legendary Pictures)
Now that’s who has saved an extra buck on the website! If the fifties had some websites, that’s what they’d look like. We only included it here because it’s a Superman movie website after all, no review is a review without it. Anyways, the website is obviously kinda too simple for a huge movie like Superman. But, who are we to judge? 
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Fantastic Four (2005, 20th Century Fox)
(see the animation in Web Archive)
Followed by the sequel “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer”, the FF is one of the cases when both movie websites look pretty much the same. But that’s not bad in case both of them are nice.
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, 20th Century Fox)
A movie based on the Marvel Comics’ character Wolverine (starring Hugh Jackman) is a latest one of the X-Men series. The movie’s website is just great – almost as cool as “The Incredible Hulk” website
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The Spirit (2008, Lions Gate Entertainment)
The movie is an adaptation of a comic book (which is why it’s on our review) starring a whole lot of top actors (Gabriel Macht, Eva Mendes, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson). The website in turn is one of the most comic-style designs on this review – looks great even though having a lot of non-comic elements.
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Spiderman 3 (2007, Columbia Pictures)
The latest part of Spiderman series starring Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst has been quite a financial success. But as it usually happens to the movies like this, they have slightly underestimated the importance of the website. Looks acceptable though – with video animations from the movie itself and big photos, they always make it all look better.
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Ghost Rider (2007, Columbia Pictures)
This movie is also based on a Marvel Comics character and is starring Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes (she seems to love to be a girl-next-to-superhero). Anyways, the website looks pretty good but in our honest opinion a little bit more of awesome motorcycle elements would make it better.
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Batman Begins (2005, Warner Bros.)
One of the oldies on our list, this website really does look like it has been designed in 2005. However it’s nice Flash areas and a little bit of creepiness really save it all and make it all look pretty fresh.
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Catwoman (2004, Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures)
Though even older than the ‘Batman Begins’ website this one looks good considering that it was made 5 years ago (damn, it’s been that long ago). Plus the picture of Halle Berry nicely sitting in the front does its job – the website looks good in spite of not having very much other elements.
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Watchmen (2009, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures)
Based on the 80-s comic book series this movie actually has its own design – creepy and colorfully saturated at the same time. So without a doubt this kind of brilliant approach had to be used in the website. That’s what they did and that’s why we love this website so much.
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HellBoy II: The Golden Army (2008, Universal Pictures)
HellBoy II: The Golden Army
HellBoy
Preceded by the original Hellboy movie (both featuring Dark Horse Comics character) both parts have the similar websites – that appears to be a sort of common practice in the film industry. But, once again, both website look great and you can never tell that the website for the original movie was designed in 2004.
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Superhero Movie (2008, The Weinstein Company, M-G-M, Dimension Films)
Well, even though this one is not exactly a superhero movie (neither is it based upon a certain comic book) the movie has still left its trace in the superhero movies industry – by laughing at those movies. So the website design is also all about that – parodying everything they could think of. The website is on our rating not only for the laugh – take a look at the nice Flash gags, that’s what we call creativity
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Underdog (2007, Walt Disney Pictures)
“There’s no need to fear, Underdog is here” – that’s the first thing you hear upon opening the website. Well, what can we say – it’s really there, in the middle, right where the charismatic element should be. A great demonstration of the fact that the good movie website design doesn’t necessarily have to be serious of creepy.
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Well, that’s it for now. Hopefully you’ve enjoyed this little contribution to the great deed of Comic-Con. And let the power and magic of comic books be with you. Take care.
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