No one does it better
than the Bat. At any age, he’s still the same, too smart for those who want to
get on his bad side.
This Part 1 is so so
good. I can’t wait to see the rest. I hope veterans like the Joker will be
there to make it all crazy like.
Batman: The Dark
Knight Returns is a two-part
animated superhero film, an adaptation of the four-issue story arc The Dark
Knight Returns by Frank Miller, printed in 1986.
This animation style is not something I liked, but it was better than Superman vs. The Elite, but the voice casting and story makes up for it, it focuses on the future. Wrong choice of words — it is about the future. Bruce Wayne is 55, and the Bat hasn’t been seen for 10 years.
The story arc curved around the Bat after retirement. Gotham now seems to be overrun by a group called the Mutants. The Mutants aren’t just any gang, they’re absolutely ruthless — and in a way, useless.
Also in this flick, we get to see Harvey Dent/Two-Face after he’s undergone plastic surgery to fix his face. Harvey now looks normal, but he’s so paranoid and out of it that he goes back to his old ways.
Things aren’t changing in Gotham, and with the ongoing nightmares, Bruce sleepwalking and doing things at night, it was obvious he could no longer cage the Bat.
Bruce caves to the urges. In the dark, the “billionairelly” insane Batman is seen jumping over rooftops and doing things other billionaires could only dream their bodyguards could do. (Because no sane billionaire jumps around in the dark. Imagine one day you look out the window and see Bill Gates in his underwear and a cape on your roof… would you say Bill still got all his screws nicely tight?)
I don’t know what I liked better, watching Bat being Bat again in his old age, or the bad guys not knowing in time to skip town when they found out he was out of retirement. (You can’t blame them though. Some didn’t even know who he was.)
Well, the directing of this wonderful flick was done by Jay Oliva, who worked as a storyboard artist on Man of Steel, Batman: Year One, and Batman: Under the Red Hood.
The only downside to this wonderful movie is the news casting. It was boring and looked too much like child’s play. I hope you’re not still reading this, because I expect by now that you’ve hit the stores to grab your copy of The Dark Knight Returns Part 1.
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