Not even bad in a good way

A Major Disappointment

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

That might be part of the problem.Oh wait. NO IT ISN'T.I was so excited about the concept. Batman was born on Japan. And all the Batman Universe are Ninjas (or from that era).THE TRAILER WAS AMAZING!And in 1 minute all that dream was dead. Time Travel crap with the DUMBEST DC CHARACTER GRODD?From there... it was all downhill.The animation in the fights was perfect, so it was all about the ridiculous story and script.It was sad to watch and Japanese pop culture at its worst (well, almost)

If you love anime and you love batman, this is a love letter to both by writers who seriously follow the current comic book and seriously love Japanese science fiction. The characterization of both the Joker and Batman are very close to the current DC version with a distinctly anime twist. This move is simply incredible. And it just keeps upping the ante until this unbelievably over the top climax. I haven't felt this excited about Batman in a long time. People who don't follow the comics will not recognize most of these characters, and probably think it's "ridiculous" or "not serious." If you go in wanting the usual boring re-telling of the Batman story; or don't like classic Japanese science fiction & anime; then you might not like it. If you can hang up your fanboy hat for an hour and just enjoy it for what it is, you will be treated to one of the most imaginative, fun, beautifully animated Batman stories of all time. If there is an extended version, I am totally buying it.

As a fan of both DC Comics and Anime in general, I was hugely disappointed. This movie had so much going for it, DC's animated stuff is almost always good and it had big anime creators working on it. The movie fails at being both a good DC animated movie and a good anime, there is so much wrong with this movie.While I didn't go out of my way to find the subbed version like I do for most anime, I don't see how the dialogue could be any better. All the villain interactions are basically one-liners except always bad, and the heroes just describe what there doing all the time. Speaking of characters, there are to goddamn many of them, there never needed to be more hero characters than just Batman. It's hard to feel like there are any stakes for him since he has the entire bat family to back him up. They also barely get any screen time and don't really need to be there. The villains have the same problem. While I can see why they would include multiple villains rather then just the Joker, they're only there to fight the unnecessary hero characters, so it's just unnecessary heroes we don't care about fighting unnecessary villains with little to no screen time. There's so many known DC characters I constantly forgot this even takes place in Japan.The plot is also a huge mess. For one, Batman is the biggest dumb-ass. He's supposed to be the worlds greatest detective yet he falls for every single one of the Joker's traps and he can't solve the most obvious of things. He also felt very inexperienced like he's only been Batman for a few months, which he is certainly not considering he has cycled through all of the Robins in the comics. I cringed when he questioned what to do without his technology. There's also this bat ninja clan who prophesied the arrival of Batman, no, it's not explained. They're only there to shatter your disbelief and lower the stakes even more because Batman didn't have enough allies already. There was also this part where Joker loses his memory and becomes a farmer and then Red hood beats him up in hand drawn animation. That part only exists to waste your time and to make you uncomfortable.The finale, oh my god the finale. If you didn't think this movie was dumb before, the finale cranks the bulls**t meter up to 11. It involves Gorilla Grodd handing a flute to Robin's baby monkey friend who also has a baby monkey girlfriend, them playing the flute to summon a giant army of monkeys which then pile up and morph into a giant monkey to fight five giant robot castles which combined like Voltron into one big robot castle. Then the giant monkey swarm in the shape of a big monkey merges with a swarm of bats which were summoned by the bat ninja clan to form a giant 1950's batman. I cannot make this s**t up. I don't remember the comics or cartoons ever getting this absurd, even anime never really goes this far without an in continuity explanation.The animation is CGI with cel-shading to give it a more rough sketch/hand drawn look. While the environments and characters look nice, the character movement is quite stiff and robotic at times. The fight scenes aren't very well choreographed and are often interrupted with talking. The facial animations aren't very pleasant to look at, especially the male characters without their masks. There is a completely hand drawn animation section in the middle of the movie which I previously mentioned. It looks really cool but is a complete waste of time.With Marvel stepping into Animation with "Big Hero 6" and "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", DC is in a bit of a weird spot. While their animated stuff is recognized and praised, they are mainly direct to DVD and watched by fans only. If this is their attempt at trying something new, then they are in serious trouble. With their live action stuff failing miserably, they need to step up their game real fast.

When first news about the movie came up I was so excited about it! Batman + Feudal Japan + Anime!! Sounds great!! Well, it's not. Story is super messy, artistically it's quite inconsistent, couldn't really convince myself to love it, even though a few scenes are really cool to watch, most of the times they make no sense. Total waste of potential, and the worst was the robots. That was it for me, totally out of place in the story, it's a complete nonsense and unnecessary. On top of it, it takes so much time with this ridiculous robots that what could be interesting, the fights between the heroes and each villain is totally rushed and incomplete. I don't even know what else to say about this, it's so messy that it's even difficult to break down. Animation is good, but abuses badly used CGI, story is bad from beginning to end... that's pretty much all I can say here. Worth the watch? Only for a few minutes, a few scenes of action on the whole thing, but 1h23m will feel long, believe me.