a5c7b9f00b The Joker is back with a vengeance, and Gotham&#39;s newest Dark Knight needs answershe stands alone to face Gotham&#39;s most infamous Clown Prince of Crime. In latter-21st-century Gotham City, The Jokerz, a street gang enamored of the city&#39;s infamous Clown Prince Of Crime, is breaking into a high-tech engineering plant to steal a powerful generator, a crime stopped by the new Batman (Terry McGuiness) and which puzzles Terry and his mentor, the elderly original Batman Bruce Wayne. The reason for this and other &quot;geek junk&quot; thefts is a mystery even to The Jokerz gang, who are now working for someone claiming to be the original Joker himself. When he makes an appearence at a charity function attended by Bruce Wayne (cover to steal another generator), the Joker taunts Wayne, and later sends his minions to attack Terry McGuiness while he attacks the Batcave. But the original Joker died forty years earlier, and why does this new Joker want high-tech items? When a shaken Barbara Gordon explains the fate of the original Joker, Terry begins to piece the twin mysteries together, culimating in a confrontation with the Joker that literally threatens the very existence of Gotham City. I would have to give this movie a rating of 10 for the sheer quality of the movie, but for that fact that WB is cutting and editing out all of the major points of the movie really destroys the filma whole. If you can get ahold of an uncut version (which is illegal) it is a wonderful movie, but the official release is crap. WB could release the uncut version for adults with some form of ID check which would be possible, but since they won&#39;t do that, I have to strongly disagree with their actions by cutting this wonderful film. Please protest WB for their actions and demand the real version. Many decades have passed since Bruce Wayne was young enough to don the bat cape and fight crime, now a younger man is Batman, under the guidance and supervision of Wayne. This new Batman, Terry McGinnis, notices that the clown gang are hijacking hi-tech equipment of late and wonder why. His investigation leads him to find that they are being guided by the Joker who seems to have not aged a bit or bedeadWayne professes him to be. The Joker knows a lot about Batmanwellcontinues his evil ways 40 years after he stopped.<br/><br/>Although I&#39;m not a comic book fan by nature, I am a Batman fan and have always found this story to be the darkest and the most disturbed of heroes. Few versions of the Batman franchise have managed to capture the darkness and shadow required by the story to do it justice. I liked the animated version of Batman because (although for kids and unable to be darker content wise) it was stylistically to my taste. I watched this film unaware that the future setting would make such a difference it did. The Batman here is too thin and too smart mouthed and clean cut to be recognisable to the original Batman. He lacks the presence of Wayne and the style is too frantic more like Pokemon than the previous animated version.<br/><br/>The action sequences set in the future are too focused on brightly lit sets, futuristic equipment and set pieces and they lose the essence of the Batman. It is a shame because I was looking forward to this in the absence of any good movie version since the first Burton film. The plot here is a little silly and pretty unlikely. It tries hard to be interesting and, for the middle section, it is. Outside of this section, the ending/explanation is not logical and the beginning is just like any cartoon you&#39;d see on Saturday morning television. The middle section (a flashback to the Batman of Bruce Wayne) is content-wise very dark and also much better in term of style and was easily the most enjoyable part of the film.<br/><br/>The voice work was reasonable. Hamill and Stockwell are not that recognisable but do pretty good work Hamill in particular. FriedleMcGinnis is to cocky and aimed at kids while the other voices are good and serve their characters well.<br/><br/>Overall I was disappointed in this. I have seen better in the other animated films and also have an image in my head of what I expect from any Batman film. With the exception of the middle section (with the `real&#39; Batman) I found it hard to distinguish this from the lack lustre soulless cartoons that populate so much of kids&#39; tv of late.
petquecludlac Admin replied
364 weeks ago