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00:00:00 Intro

00:07:08 Movie Recap

00:58:25 Comic Knowledge

01:01:34 Behind the Scenes

01:06:10 "Cape or Cap" Decision

01:33:43 The Ending Reminder

What is going on with Damien?

This is probably the worst haircut I've ever seen

anyone like I'm talking worse than WildTree Manuel Jones and

brink Hi, I'm chamar Griffith codename Comic Chams.

And I'm Andrew Tejada Codename Arete. This season

we're looking at the worst superhero movies ever and seeing

if they're fun or straight up dumb on Cape or cap,

a bonus season of yet another DC animated podcast

Welcome to Cape or cap or bonus season here on yet another DC

animated podcast. My name is chamar Griffith codenamed Comic

Chams,

and I am Andrew Tejada, codename Arete Andrew and I have

known each other since 1996. That was the year the Mighty

Morphin alien Rangers debuted. And you're wondering, what does

that have to do with anything? Well, it turns out that that

entire season was based on an A ninja version of the Sentai so

it was an Sentai converted to American aliens, and similarly

to ninjas. Alien Rangers came gone and we're quickly forgotten

about

and yes, we do know a lot about Power Rangers we

have already covered the movie check over the pipe podcast for

that coverage on that. Amen. But that that brought back some

memories because that was also the weirdest story I've ever

heard in my entire life. Spoilers for those who've never

seen it though. I'm surprising that verse Yes, boy, were the

original powers just got turned into kids. And then had to go on

these like, serious quest in order to get zo crystal before

they actually introduced zo crystal, like the cost of the

zero power rangers and there was a change back into adults. And

then the alien ninja Rangers were basically saving the day

crossing overseas a time and space which is similar that a

line is actually very similar to what gets dropped in this film

today that we're covering, because we are back in our DC

animated world with a movie that we have, basically badmouth the

entire time on this podcast. I can't count how many times we've

actually brought up this movie in particular, and put it in the

ranks of like Wonder Woman bloodlines and Batman bad blood.

But today y'all asked for it because today we're getting

Batman ninja. Yeah,

Is it as bad as we'd been advertising? Well find out in

just like two minutes you're here already. All right, so

at a runtime of 85 minutes is 2018 film was

directed by June payments who Saki not too many directorial

stuff on jun pace and however a lot of production credits

producer credits that include an episode of Star Wars visions,

and JoJos Bizarre ventures a June pay also teamed up with

some part directors such as Shinji Takagi joint chi Yamamoto

as shoe a Morita. Then for a screenplay. I'm kind of

impressed. I hope I got those pronounce those right. For our

screenplay, we got causes. Kazuki Nakashima, who wrote the

original Japanese screenplay, a name that is quite familiar in

the Sentai and common writer worlds. And it's some great

anime, because Kazuki is the mind behind primaire killer

kill. And honestly, this is one of my favorite anime shows of

all time. Gurren Lagaan, underrated, underrated. Yes. And

while Nakashima wrote the original Japanese screenplay, we

have Leo Chu and Eric C. S. Garcia, providing the English

screenplay that we're reviewing today on this podcast. And

they're the minds behind this these limited series that say,

quote unquote, because remember what I like to call cancel shows

now. They wrote super ninjas. That's su p h. That actually

started writing Porter. Oh, yes, yes. Netflix's Alexa and Katie.

The current I think this is currently going on Disney's

ultra violet and black scorpion. And finally adult swims Afro

Samurai

is Afro Samurai. Thank you, Sam. Thank you Sam Jackson.

We got some animation work done by besar

entertainment. It was profitable for the sword fights that we see

throughout the film. A piece Inc and kahar Inc to handle the CGI

and and a bunch more. studios that teamed in to handle the

general animation throughout the film. All right now it's time

for our cast list. So we got Roger Craig Smith, who has

definitely voiced our Batman in the past. More so connected to

the Batman Unlimited storytelling. He's back again.

Now for Batman ninja. I'm just wanting to make sure you're okay

with me mentioning Batman Unlimited in this pocket. We're

here aren't we? We're in the worst of the worst.

Fred's how to secure is voicing Gorilla Grodd and

Deathstroke. Tony Hale is the voice of the Joker. Greg Griffin

is the voice of Catwoman. Tara Strong is voicing Harley Quinn

and poison ivy. Tom Kenny, aka SpongeBob is voicing penguin.

Eric Bauza is to face Bane is actually voiced by the something

that I found out about is this movie was produced in English

and Japanese. So bein in particular, he is voicing his

voice is the same voice that isn't Japanese as Kenta.

Miyazaki. Yuri Loewenthal is voice and Robin in this universe

is Damien and Red Hood. Guys say that is a wild mix for the kind

of makes sense. Well, Fredo is voice of Red Robin. Adam Crowe

stale is Nightwing and Alfred Pennyworth eon who is a

character who just pops up you don't get too much dialogue for

him. But it's voiced by Matt Yang king. And finally we got

our two monkeys in the film. Mon me who was voiced by the

Japanese voice actor, jury nagatsuma and monkey chi. This

was the one that I think probably was holding it down in

this film for

this crew

is voiced by ANA movie hall.

Yeah, man, could you put in some more work than some of

the human characters in this film?

I cannot agree more. I'm and then also, for the

Japanese voice actors, we're not going to go through them. But

again, this was done in Japanese as well. But some of the voice

actors who are featured on there went on to do some more roles

such as stuff in Attack on Titan just did jutsu chi cinta Jones

bizarre adventures and a bunch of other shows. But we're

talking about Batman ninja in this English dub. So let's Boom

Tube over to the beginning of this 2018 film, Batman ninja.

As any great movie starts, you get some narration

with Catwoman saying you probably won't believe it. I

didn't believe this story either. I think you'll agree by

the time you get to the end. So Grodd is experimenting on

something at Arkham Asylum, Catwoman and Batman happened to

be there at the same time. And it turns out, it's a time

machine because they're all launched back into feudal Japan.

And upon getting there, Batman is immediately on site, branded

a criminal he is he is a wanted man. And he has to fight off a

bunch of Joker masked samurai who are ordered to kill him on

site. So you know, Batman is ready to fight and evade.

Unfortunately, in a really I love these moments and superhero

media. He tries to grapple away, but all the buildings are short,

so he can. So he is not going to go anywhere. Except that

credits. Yeah, the credits are right here.

Yeah, it is a it's a pretty cool credit scene, I will

say because it's basically you see every person who is being

listed as part of the film know the actual actors names, because

they do save that towards the end. But we see that the names

are coming up on the on the blades of like sores from this

like fuel, Japan swords. And you're seeing all this done you

actually in as opposed to most movies are probably coming

around this time, we're not actually seeing the full movie

play out in the credit sequence, which I was thankful for.

Because it does add a little bit of mystery to it about like

what's happening. How Does Batman overcome this? So once

that's all settled, Batman finds himself in the forest. He's

trying to see if he can log in to any of his back computer

equipment and try to get a GPS, and everything's coming up same

as offline, because, of course Batman is trapped in the past.

However, he does notice that even though he's in feudal

Japan, there's a lot of stuff that's happening that seems a

little ahead of his time. So he decides that the best course of

action is to go to the building that has the most I guess, you

could say futuristic look to it. Basically, it just has like it

seems to be running on coal and everything. So as he arrives and

uses I guess I assume it's binoculars, which is weird

because it was like it seemed like he got access to his

computer, and everything in that moment, because he's able to

pull up a file we see on the corner of the HUD screen that he

has, that he identifies the Joker. And it's like details

from the back computer file. But I'm confused, like how he was

able to access is like this, I wish to kind of at least said

like, hey, he has a local network, at least in his in his

cape or suit

or something. Yeah, his theory was established as being

down earlier. So I guess he has like a memory bank. i Yeah, it's

not really clear how he does that.

But as he sees Joker, Joker pops up right next

to him. And it's revealed that the Joker that was often the

distance that he was looking at, is actually Harley Quinn and the

mask. And this leads into our first battle of the film, or

actually second battle of the film because you had the fight

against Grodd. But we don't really see that. But we see now

this like full extent battle, Joker explains to Batman a

little bit about how he got there, he and he tells him that

Gorilla Grodd was using this device to bring the arm that

accidentally went off and transported all of them to

feudal Japan, where he is now basically taking over his own

little thing. He's gone out he's gone under the name now of the

the lord of hell or something like that. But he likes to just

to be called Lord Joker, as he immediately it starts attacking

Batman and storing out jokes and some of them just like some of

the blows none of them are really landing. So as Batman is

trying to maneuver out the way we see how much control Joker

actually has, when Harley Quinn pops out with I'm assuming this

Saki I don't know for him to drink while his samurai henchmen

are now attacking Batman and trying to kill him as Joker just

watches in awe of like his greatest nemesis now is here and

he finally has a chance to have some fun

yeah the but the sharp fans which I spent a lot of time

explaining and until like we know how sharp fans were

generally I'm almost get him. The samurai almost get him but

Batman manages to get away in a cool frame shot he hangs under a

bridge like a bat. As they all pass over him. How they didn't

see him from the other side. I guess they have no peripheral

or at least in the reflections of the water.

You're right like it really easy. While under the

bridge, Batman spots Catwoman in a kimono that leaves very little

to the imagination.

PG 13 PG 13

and Anna Mae PG 13 I think. So he links up with

Catwoman and finds out Grodd did it which we kind of already know

but you know never helps you. It it never hurts to be thorough.

So it turns out that Catwoman and Joker for some reason,

arrived two years prior than Batman did in Japan and other

people. Apparently everybody except Batman arrived two years

earlier. For some reason, I don't know why. But they just

did. And in that time, multiple villains have carved up

territory in Japan, Penguin, Poison Ivy, Deathstroke and two

faiths have all carved out their own territory to face has sided

with Joker. And when I first heard this plot point and

sounded like a plot point in Harley Quinn, where the villain

come out of the city, similarly, this happens a Gotham. So it

did. It did feel familiar. And Catwoman agrees to work with

Batman to get back to the future. And they need to break

into Joker's main tower and get the time machine. So the first

step to doing that is for Batman to go to his barber and have him

just just fuck his hairline up. I'm sorry. That's my PG 13. But

that's come. Batman's head was destroyed. Here.

I'm glad you said that. Film does a disgrace to

airlines. There was another character who I have so many

questions about. But first we got to talk about Batman's

haircut. Because basically what they did was you would assume

that maybe they will just give you a little little hat like,

like I don't know exactly what it's called that the

missionaries were but what they end up doing is that he has on

they give him this hair cut and in the middle of his head is a

bat logo, his own symbol, and I need to know was this like, is

this like the barbers work because I'm mean a plus for that

level of artwork. But why? Or this Batman have a tattoo of a

bat on the middle of his?

Yeah, it's like also you're trying to be subtle,

right? Like, I don't I think the guy with the batch carved into

his head that looks American is probably Batman. You know.

He even has a Bible in his hand that has the Batman

logo on it. And it's just like, I'm sorry, at this point. It's

like, it's hard to not say you're Batman. Well, you could

have done anything else. Um, so as he and Catwoman are just

walking around, thinking they have the greatest disguises

ever. Batman sees that in what's being called Arkham Castle,

which is supposed to be apparently supposed to be Arkham

Asylum, like the whole building from when at the beginning of

our movie had also transferred to the past. So Joker turned it

into his own, like his own headquarters. And he also has

possession of the time machine as well in that place. The Quake

engine this is called a Batman is noticing that a lot of the

stuff that's coming in to that Arkham Castle is too much from

the future. Like it's a bunch of coal, and he's just like,

alright, Joker's messing around with time, I'm surprised, buried

and just show up and just be like, Hey, that's my job. So as

Batman is trying to figure out the next steps, they're at a tea

house. And then as the next cup of tea comes out, that man is

shocked to drink it and see that it's actually a cup of black

tea, instead of assuming either Jasmine of green tea at that

time. And then this is when it's revealed that Alfred was also

brought to the past. And that this whole time Selena has been

hiding the secret of alpha being there, because she was just

wanting to play a trick on Batman and be like, Hey, here's

a prank and I'm just like, I don't see how this is funny. I

feel like my guy really thought that he had lost everyone. So

like if you lost your father figure I feel like that would be

the biggest hit of all if you just found out that like he had

been there this entire time.

Yeah, cuz he mentions that he was in the Batmobile

that night. Why? Because we know this Batman has Robins multiple

we'll get there was a why weren't one of them in the

Batmobile? Why did Alfred need to be there? I feel like we'll

get to it. But he luckily with Alfred. Also comes a Batmobile.

And as he's reunited with his Batmobile, cannons are fired on

this impromptu Batcave implying I guess that Joker saw Batman

and civilian. Right,

which means to know, right? I mean, it must have been

the bat logo that was etched onto his head. He must follow in

this guy.

It's possible maybe his scout saw, I don't know. But

there's a gap there. So the Batmobile starts racing towards

Joker's castle, and I'll give them this another really

creative moment. As Joker is narrating the chase that he can

somehow see. He has a person with a scroll. Yeah, that was

that was fun. The scroll was just moving really fast. So they

try everything to stop Batman. Joker uses a magnetized bump

some spikes, so Batman counters with a magnetized bumper. And

when Batman gets close enough, Joker, he activates a castle,

which turns into a mech. A giant mech in feudal Japan. This is

the second reason I referenced Power Rangers earlier because

like Power Rangers Batman Ninja has Max. Just giant Max. Hallo.

I don't

know.

And we'll never know. Because it also makes the

same question about the Batmobile. Which at one point

gets hit hard enough by something. So because at one

point Joker is able to pull from the castle giant shurikens i,

this was this was a little out there. I thought it was cool.

But at the same time, it's like we're How did you produce this

thing anyway, like in the point of where we are now. So he pulls

out some DJI shurikens throws at the Batmobile. This causes the

Batmobile to get kind of hit so Batman has to maneuver out but

he gets grabbed by one in the hands of Arkham castle. So as

it's being squished Batman presses a button, the Batmobile

then turn So to the Batwing and as it's round taking flight or

not the bat wing it's superhero that the battling the the thing

yeah just I mean it gets confusing people you know

Batman's flying around the Batmobile trying to maneuver he

is shooting bullets and everything which makes me

wonder. I'm assuming these bullets that were just already

in the car and in the in the thing because I know how he how

alpha would have gotten bullets that would have worked with semi

automatic or rapid fire equipment.

I'll give it prep time, I guess. Yeah,

you're right. Yeah, two years. So as the bat wing is

flying around, Joker takes I think he has like some spikes on

his on the on the mech arm as well, that stabs through the

wings of the bat wing. So Batman then presses another button, and

this time it transforms into the back cycle. And this is when I

was like this movie is made for the toys. I could tell. It was

giving really Batman Unlimited vibes. Yeah. So as the cycle

crashes into the, into the room where Joker is in the Arkham

Castle, Joker has one more ace up his sleeve as he shows that

there's a woman on the ground, who he is really willing to

kill, if he just presses a button that will cause the arm

of the Arkham castle to fall crashing her. And he quotes

keeps saying, Well, I mean, you are a hero, so you gotta go and

do what heroes do. As Batman turns the bat cycle around, he

flies out the hole that he just made and is a visually cool

scene because as the hand is falling down Batman is also

falling alongside with it with the bat cycle and then uses the

I guess like the turbo boost on it to get himself down there a

little bit faster, where he comes face to face with the

biggest and probably the most jacked villain of this film.

Bane Yeah, rather sumo bein.

Sumo bein different, different pain. Luckily for

Batman, he turns his pet pod turns into a mech suit, as well.

An exosuit that he could use against been. So as they're they

he pretty much instantly the feed sumo bein. Which I guess

points for realism. As he goes to the victim it route it's

revealed again it's it's just Harley. It's another another

fake out. And Batman gets cornered underneath. A joker is

mech his mech is crushed. But Pat man's personal Batsuit he

gets hit by Harley with a hammer. And things are looking

pretty bad for him. He has no tricks up his sleeve no tech, no

gadgetry. Luckily, an army of bats. And a group of Batman

ninja inspired by Batman himself, save him. And they save

him and bring him to another location where all the robins

are here. Bamyan dick, Tim, and it's a reveal that Red Hood is

just is here, but not right here at the time. Um, and apparently,

all of this is because there was a prophecy that Batman would

arrive and save all have Japan from imminent threat. But I

don't care about that. Because what is going on with Damien?

What is? No,

this is probably the worst haircut I've ever seen

anyone like, I'm talking worse than Walter Emanuel Jones and

bring

man in that. Oh, look it up people if you haven't, it's

bad.

Yeah, it's like, it's like if they were just

like, hey, you have a lot of hair. What if I just shaved

right down the middle, but not in the middle where it's just

like I'm taking it from taking the razor at the face, and just

going all the way to the back because I know I'm gonna go from

one side of your ear to the other side of your ear full on,

full on like Moon circle. And it's so bad. And I'm just like,

I understand if this was like, the hairstyle from back in the

day, but I honestly feel like this was a joke that the rest of

the Robins had played on him because they all have full heads

of hair. Yeah,

everybody else has regular haircuts. I don't think

I even saw a civilian with the hair cut that Robin was rocking.

I know at some point was the style, but I Why would he do it?

Of all of them like alpha are doing it would have made sense.

Almost. But not Damian, this haircut is truly horrifying. I'm

speaking of things that are truly horrifying. Batman is told

to me Grodd in the hotsprings were brought us hanging out with

chimps, which

Yeah, I think they're supposed to be Japanese

snow monkeys, but they're not whites. I know that can't be

snow monkeys. But they're like Japanese snow monkeys.

It just feels not. Okay. Um, so Batman declines and

invitation to get in the springs with broad. But Grodd does

reveal that he essentially invented time travel. So he

could send all the other Gotham rogues away to a different time

period where they couldn't interfere. Which brings up a few

questions. Why is Brian and Gotham right? Not a Gotham

villain, typically, to where was he planning on sending them

somewhere else where they would mess up the timeline?

Yeah, like the best course of action would be to

send them to the future, because if you send them to the past,

there's a strong possibility. Now we're getting into a little

bit of time travel here. Yeah, this was gonna happen. If you

send them to the past, I feel like they would be able, because

of the limited resources that was back in the day, they could

easily have taken over, which is what they did in the last two

years. So if you send them to the past, you make a strong,

it's not gonna be good for you trying to take over a Gautham,

that's most likely going to be influenced by their rule from

the past, you should have sent them to the future where they

can't do anything about the rule that you have established, maybe

over a 50 year time period at the bare minimum, I mean, send

them all the way to the feudal Japan, meaning that like, if it

works that way, it should work the even amount of years in the

opposite direction, meaning that you will have rule way past your

own life expectancy.

But again, I also assume that Grodd is smart, and that if

he sends them to the future, there's a possibility they could

use his time machine to get back to where they need to go. So I

mean, this is what we're supposing here is essentially

the plan diffused and back to the future too. But it works for

Biff, because he's not smart enough to think of the

possibility that Marty could just undo it. But Grodd is, so I

don't know where he was planning on sending them. But apparently,

he said that men mess up the plan. So he kind of had to

improvise here. And now he wants to work with that man to get his

control the tower control of his time machine everything back. So

this leads to a scene where Batman and his forces and his

allies decided to confront Joker out on the open sea, like a one

piece scene. And during this action sequence, it's weird but

the music goes out randomly. I don't know why that happens.

It's

yeah, I have I have a thought about that. But I'll

save it for later. Because as we're seeing this whole thing

play out, and it's good. I will say it was good music too. I

felt like they were trying to they captured some essence of

like the energy that was being put forward. We see that they

have Joker side has established another leap in technology as

they have I think it was like railguns basically attached to

the ship, which I feel like it's way more ahead than any even

like current ships. Yeah. And they shoot up the water thinking

that they hit every single member of the bat clan of Heda

This is the group that has been working with the Robins as now

as Batman to join their join with them in this quest for for

good. So when this happens Batman reveals Hi, I had prep

time and reveals that the ship that the Batman The Bat clan

that he that has is basically a submarine so all everybody that

they thought was being hit by the bullets was actually dummies

that they had just crafted to show like these little pipes

coming out and now all the Robins except for Red Hood and

Batman along with this bat clan are just creating straight out

war chaos on on Joker ship they're able to take down Joker

and Harley Quinn in a really cool sequence very anime like

where it's just Like Batman and Gorilla Grodd team up there

moments in which you see like Gorilla Grodd, almost looking

like he's about to get his like 13th Power up before he gives

Joker the flop. Some great scenes to where Batman punches

Joker hard enough that causes him to kind of like, do that

classic enemy spit take or something? Oh, yeah, it was.

Yeah, so it was like, they did a great job in the sequencing and

the animation and some of the scenes here. Unfortunately,

though, when everything's about to get wrapped up, this is where

we get the biggest double cross of all because Gorilla Grodd

reveals that he still has a trick up his sleeve as he pulls

out his mind control. Head, Mind Control machine thingamajig I

actually never know what this was called.

The mind manipulator. 5000 I think

every time I think of that, I think of Deathstroke.

In seeing Titans goes like Mark show.

That's where he got it from just from Grad. So here,

it's revealed he tries to use Mind Control on the back clan.

But it's revealed that they're just immune miniatures, they

can't be controlled. They Oh, so lucky with plot point. Cool. So

then that plan doesn't work. But Grodd has a backup plan, he

turns out that he teamed up with to face and he orders them to

face to fire on the ship. Cat Woman also jumped ship with

Grodd literally, God has a 5000 feet vertical and is able to

jump from the, from his ship to another one. Was there any

telekinesis? Or do you just make that jump himself? I think it's

just God is him I think that's fair. Um, so as the ship is

going up, Batman is wants to stay behind and capture Joker

and Harley, who are on the top of the ship and refuse to get

down. But he waits too long and fails the mission. It felt like

a mission where it's like, you're supposed to do a quick

time event to jump off the ship. And you know, in times you get

blown up. But luckily, there are no consequences. It is revealed

that each villain ended up with a piece of the Time Machine

device. So that's another fetch quest for them. And as Bruce

industries Bruce in bed recovering, and shortly after

recovery, we get it's a speech a bizarre speech.

Yeah, it's really bizarre, because the entire time

Bruce is looking down at his hand. And he's just like, I

thought I had nothing. You know, and it led me to trusting and

believing in people like Grodd, because I had lost so much when

I first arrived here, that was just like, I don't have any of

my technology. So I have to rely on just unconventional means.

And that unconventional mean led to like a big breach of trust.

Because now all of his villains have one. And then this is when

like, the poignant music kind of starts, but it does not get

played loud. This is something that I kind of irked me a lot.

Because as Batman has given the species just like, but you know

what I got? I got my skills. I got family. And I got the bat

clan of Heda. Who's got me and I was just like, you just met them

how they don't actually got to you even know what they got.

And this is nothing. This is what you call having nothing.

You have a lot of resources.

If I was eon, who was the I think the leader of

the bat clan. Gonna be like, Yo, bro, like, like, literally, I

could just take my whole entire squad leave. We thought you were

the We thought you were the one but clearly you don't believe in

us. We don't believe in you anymore. But um, Batman's having

this whole conversation we have revealed that he's actually

having it with Nightwing is actually not for the viewer

whatsoever. It's just for Nightwing and then more the

Robins pop up and he's just like, we're going to use it.

It's a really weird sense of dialogue because he's like,

we're gonna use their resources and bring it alongside our

resources. We're gonna take it over. And as best on the very

imperialistic of you Batman but and he's like, we're going to

bring their Legend of me into a reality and then it turns into a

completely the following see? Yeah,

I mean also like, aren't you guys already ninjas? I mean,

I get it clean. Like you're, like well adapted techniques of

ninjas. Um, you, you consistently do though? It's

unclear what techniques you're talking about, but you want to

adapt. Because they haven't really done anything like that

impressive that you could Yeah. Like

at this point, you're just trying to, it almost

felt like he was trying to justify cultural appropriation,

which is like, Oh, you've been doing it for so long. And this

is like, No, I haven't done that never, never had ninja skills.

And just like you use smoke bombs, you use hand to hand

combat, you use the shadows to your benefit. I'm missing the

part where you're not ninja.

Yeah, like, Come on, guys. I don't think that line

came out like you wanted it to. But as you say, at this point,

we go into a different movie. The animation style changes into

a basically pencil animation style here. I liked it for the

first 20 seconds. I'm all for a very stylized animation change

to say something very specific, for example, everything

everywhere all at once. Yeah, there's a scene where they're

bouncing the multiverse, and at one point, their fight turns

from hyper realistic to it's on a piece of paper. Kill Bill has

a scene where it goes from live action to anime very

effectively, to depict a specific scene. Here, we have a

pencil drawn animation scene for a scene in which Red Hood finds

Harley and joker who were presumed dead in the

countryside. And they both have amnesia. But Red Hood doesn't

believe them, threatens to break Harley's arm and kill the Joker.

Right there on the spot. All while this is in this pencil

drawn animation. So if the idea here was that it switched

switched to pencil to represent the Joker's and Harley's mental

state after losing their memories. The scene should have

been from their perspective and not read hoods. Yeah. Um, but if

this is a very red hood driven scene, and again, as I always

say, with movies, I love when you give the viewer leeway to

fill in the gaps and and string some motivations together. Yes,

you can assume most people watching Batman ninja know the

story of Red Hood. That's fine. But you needed in this scene,

one line where Jason says, Hey, remember that time you almost

killed me? Well, I'm returning the favor. Just one line. I'm

not asking for a whole retelling of Red Hood. But I thought it

was a real missed opportunity for someone who might be less

familiar with the red hood to or you know someone new to the

universe. To see this they're gonna think Oh, Redhead is just

angry. He's just going over. No, he has a very, very legitimate

reason. Yeah, even wants to kill the Joker right now. But they

don't bring it up. And it's interrupted by Batman anyway.

Yeah, I agree. Like, not if watching it without any

context of that history, that scene is very cringe because

it's a very sudden, tonal shift even because it's like, you

know, you assume that if you again, if you know nothing about

Red Hood, you're assuming that this is somebody who was trained

by Batman. So he's one of the Robins obviously, he's going to

act kind of like them. But then it's just like, he's literally

just entering the scenes of cause arm. And it's a lot

because it's like the even show a scene in which he has, he is

somehow fashioned a gun through bamboo. I am not going to have

I'm not going to ask the questions about that. Um, but he

shoots Joker, not like towards him. He does like intentionally

miss that it does catch a little bit of the hairs. So then you

start seeing Batman's intervention through the

reflection of Joker's like iris or something and it's like, it's

visually cool to see as you see it like kind of like appear. So

then we jump into the next scene where it's just like this last

memory version of Joker is explaining to Batman everything

about who he is and how you came here. He knows that he lost his

memory. He knows that his wife that he's calling it has lost

his memory as well. And it just wanted a peaceful life. They've

been noticing that like for what's been going well for them

is working out in the field here, they feel like they are

giving whatever negative energy they had in their life into the

ground to bring up something new. And all they just really

want us to just grow these plants that they have. And

Batman's like, alright, I get it, you don't seem like the

person I've been trying to fight against this entire time. It

seems like there's some sense of rehabilitation. I'm sorry for

what my colleague did, we'll just go on ahead and leave y'all

be and obviously read has just like, I don't understand how you

even think about leaving them behind. After everything, which

I agree once again, we needed at least a line to make that

connection here. So explain to somebody because I'm assuming

that this is not just made for a person who wants to watch a

Batman movie, and has all that context of who Red Hood is, and

all those other robbers in his story. But I'm assuming that is

the trying to bridge make create the bridge to our enemy watchers

out there in the world. Because when you see this is like this

is a, this is an enemy. This is basically what it is. In fact, I

even call this an ISA Kai where it's just like the characters

are taken from their own plane of existence into another time

or place. This is classic enemy storytelling. So when you are

trying to tell the story to people who don't know the

history of it, you're missing out on some big things. So as

they leave, you're relieving a lot of people wondering what is

what are we just watching this like crazy, different animation

style, crate art characters have like, gone completely cringy in

their own ways. And now we see that Joker and Harley, they're

celebrating over the fact that something is growing in their

garden. And as they're rejoicing, you see that Joker is

hugging Harley, he takes his hand and as he wipes his nose,

you see the red makeup style that was originally on his face,

as reappeared. And it's seems like they're reverting back.

Maybe as either they have been playing this trick so well that

they got Batman convinced that they had rehabilitated or

something else as spores come up. also forgot to mention there

was like a whole other animation different scene, where it's like

Batman is learning how to the he experiences a montage a little

bit. And it's almost done in like a as if you're playing the

video game. And you're just going through the you know, you

can't have animated montage sequences is just like the two

characters standing side by side. And you're hearing them

talking and you're seeing in the background, the thing that

they're supposed to be doing. So that was the another animation

shift. That was that was kind of different for this, like I saw

what they were trying to do. I think it was just too many

shifts in a short period of time. In this one particular

middle part that leads into what's supposed to be the

beginning of the conclusion of this upcoming battle. Yeah, cuz

if it's fun, like we spent a lot of time on this, we

have to point out here, that scene was pointless. Yeah, the

scene was without the context of Red Hood and his backstory in

the scene. His confrontation with them makes no sense. So on

that purely on that level alone, it the scene is pointless. But

the implication at the end that they are insane. It could do

something. It could have made a point, but there's a one month

time skip, so it's pointless. What if they were insane or not?

It doesn't matter because a month goes by where they haven't

done anything because nobody mentions the Joker about in a

month. So it's like if you wanted to do the scene, if you

ended it maybe like two seconds earlier, before they start

laughing. Then at least we could have the question in the air of

does Joker have his memory or not. But they don't do that they

just keep Yeah. And I mean again, bringing up Harley Quinn

again. Harley Quinn did this better, where Joker was found at

a random bar spoilers for Harlequin season two. But he's

found at a random bar after he falling into an acid that revert

versus his Joker tendencies. And the episode and when she finds

him, she's ready to kill him. But he genuinely has no

recollection. However, there are some aspects of his personality

that are still coming out. And overall, he's not the Joker

anymore. So she has to make the decision of whether to leave him

alone or not. But here just there's no ambiguity. He is

still the Joker at the end of the scene, or at least some

trace of him. So this is a big scene before the climax,

basically inserted to explain why Joker is not. The whole

purpose of the scene to is also explained why Joker is not

involved with the other villains but there's a month time skip so

it doesn't

also you could easily just left that the fact

that like he died they just say like they're under the

impression that he and Harley Quinn had died during that

explosion on the boat. You just leave it as that. Yeah then like

surprise surprise

that's all you have to do because you're skipping ahead a

month. I can't undo I can unders state how much does one month

times give makes everything pointless? Anyway, in that one

month, God rebuild rebuilt Arkham castle. He has a Moving

Castle as long with every other war lord. They have a fully

operate operated mechanized castle. Each one of them can

become its own giant mecha who are the contractors?

The same ones that built the Batcave in Gotham. I'm

assuming this is their ancestors clearly

so Batman Of course he was waiting for this he was

waiting for the moment where all the crime lords clash at once

because apparently he knew that would happen and He reveals that

he to take on this thread has become Sengoku Batman, which

should be cool but there's no difference it's just Batman with

the sword I

guess. Yeah, really? Is just that yeah, that's funny

too, because he just looks more like a samurai that he does like

yes, it should have been Batman samurai Yes, so here

Grodd has his army they all have gorilla masks. He's ready to

attack but his number two to face turns on him which I did

find funny because I kept hearing in my mind again Harley

Quinn sorry all the Harley Quinn references today. But I just

came here to face of course I betrayed you. My name is to face

but it turns out grind he had planned for this.

Oh yeah, it was just basically let me just grab him

with my arm of Arkham castle and throw at the other castle. Oh my

gosh, to phase out it coming it is it is wild. Um, and as this

is happening, we do see that the the bat family team here, they

do fly into action because what they do is they have as they're

riding on their horses, they set up something like kind of like

bat wings, not the plane not the hero actual bat wings on their

backs. To take off into flight as the horses were bring them up

very similar to a kite. So once they let loose of the strings

that were attached into the horses and now gives them the

ability to glide through all this damage of all the villains

fighting against each other in their in their mechs. And they

try to see maybe if they can try and take down some in any way

shape or form. However, Gorilla Grodd has it pretty much all

handled. And what he ends up doing is revealing that he has

another ace up his sleeve. Because when he as all of them

are on the ground, all the mechs are on the ground and all their

villains are operating them are kind of like groggy. He turns on

his machine, which leads to everyone getting mind control to

get revealing that his big plan was one to never return to

Gotham, which is the reason why the cat woman had joined up with

him. It was to actually stay here use the mind control

villains to merge their castles which she said that he had

implanted the idea of creating these net castles into their

mind previously. That's a lot and combining all of it to

create a monstrous mech that will then create forever rule of

monkeys throughout time um first off I just want to say monkeys

and gorillas are not technically the same just want to make sure

we all know that I don't think that Gods I think as smart as

grinders, he should have probably known that two big

differences a tail. So, as they are trying to figure out what to

do because the villains are being forced to merge together

Grodd is ready to play his his will looks like a I forget what

the name is. It's kind of like a go I think is the game. The

pieces differ. So he's ready to place the final tile in order to

complete the transformation. But surprise surprise, Joker comes

through He throws in a joker Flowerbomb the same flower that

he's been growing, and it knocks out everyone, where now Joker

and Harley Quinn are flying in on a hot air balloon with his

face on it. And they take over the mat. They kick Grodd and

Catwoman out. And now Batman and his family have to save Grodd

and cat Moon fall into their depths. And they do. Batman is

able to grab Grodd Jason grabs Catwoman Katelyn was upset that

grace will say first, but she was like, Oh, I'll be fine with

that. As Joker lays the final tile to unite the five into the

very much like in Power Rangers and every kind of method

animated we've ever had. combines the five to create the

holy heavenly monster mech being of lowered choker.

Yeah, all that happened. So you know, it might as well

also happen. baby who is uncharacteristically happy in

this movie on characters. Optimistic He's way too excited

about everything. This seems like something Tim Drake should

have done. But nevermind that Damien and his best Pokeyman

monka chi are able to assemble an army of monkeys who for into

a giant sentient monkey like robot tight and Batman

immediately forgive Selena because that has to happen for

the rest of the movie to happen. And as as she does, the monkeys

become this big. And they become this big Titan. They're hit with

flame throwers. And they can shield it the monkey tank and

shield it but like a lot of monkeys die being literal monkey

shields. So it's randomly revealed that Joker and Harley

planted the flowers, and they restored their memory, which,

thanks, we got it. And now Now it's time for everyone to go on

individual battles to fight the villains. And

I mean, I think you might have missed the biggest

part of all though, please,

my mind was winter mush.

While the monkeys are creating unnecessary

sacrifices of themselves. The rest of the bat clan of Hida

arrive after taking on the rest of God's forces. And along with

them our group of bats. These bats come together to form the

bat signal in the sky and they float down around the giant

monkey wrap around it and when they all fuse together Yes, I

set it right fuse together. They turn into Batman that God as

they call it in the movie is basically the Japanese take a

Japanese illustration of Batman in 3d form is black and white.

Everybody is excited now that the bat God is here. They now

Joker's mech with the bat God here. They send one final punch

at each other. Back Godwin's, which in his punch is able to

release the team as they as they all go on to their individual

fights with Batman vs Joker Catwoman versus Harley Quinn

because I quote this she said that she needed to take awesome

girl on girl action PG 13 Then we got a Nightwing vs penguin

which I feel like is a slaughter like a redhead versus

Deathstroke we got Red Robin or Tim Drake vs to face and finally

we got Damian Robin versus poison ivy.

Look everybody wins. All right, let me just say this.

Irrespective fights, if this was the only reason that all the

Robins were brought here. What a wasted opportunity. That was a

wasted opportunity. Yeah, this they should have been in the

mech together the five of them piloting a mech together and

then the joke would have worked. But it didn't do that. So now

only one one on one remains Batman vs. Joker, and this may

be the longest Batman vs. Joker fight I have ever seen. It goes

on way too

long. Is that odd? Least 20 minutes I

feel Yeah. And at one point in Batman gets stabbed,

but it's revealed that isn't real. It's an illusion Joker

just stay Have an illusion any Batman just keeps using illusion

again due to something he could have used conceivably at any

point in the fight but just waited to do it for dramatic

reasons. I hate this because the implication that Batman you need

extra skills to defeat the Joker and a straight fist fight is

crazy. It's crazy. That's the easiest part of Batman's joke

it's the fight is always the easy part. It's just getting to

the fight that is hard. So the fact that he has to bring out

extra tricks to just beat the Joker ridiculous ridiculous at

one point he is at this long long battle is given the

opportunity to drop Joker into the flames and he does it just

saves them afterwards so it gets the satisfaction of doing

what a little you love it

but there there is the battle is done. Alfred you still

with us?

I'm sorry yes now that they have taken down all

the villains it's time to return home. The activates the Quake

engine say goodbye to the back clan, the PETA I don't know if

this means now that they they're the prophecy being fulfilled.

Does this mean that they now just disband? Do they continue

on with the faith but I feel like when you're apart that this

very much felt like a cult and the fact that like the prophecy

happened, I don't think there's a way to go back and do whatever

you you just did before, like the scenes like they've been

doing this for years. Like it's weird. Um, so they use the

engine. And as they it opens up. The That's it. That's just the

credits. It's revealed, I guess in the post credit not in the

postgres scene, but in through the credit sequence, I guess

it's revealed that they just basically brought back

everything including the damaged robots and next and buildings

right in front of Commissioner Gordon and believe Bullock as

well. So that's basically how our movie wraps up. There are

two post credit scenes that kind of intertwine. The first one is

kind of a call back to the beginning of the film, where

Batman is, was supposed to be Bruce was supposed to be heading

to an event that the mayor was having. So he tries to alpha is

there now to meet him in a actual tuxedo for him to change

into. And it reveals that like, Hey, I actually have a nice car

for you a nice vehicle for you to use. And it's a horse driven

Batmobile. Har Har, yeah. And cat woman also sell some

antiques because it's revealed that during her time of Grodd,

Rod did something where he took a banana peel and throw it into

a vase or vase of some sort. And because technically it is and

then teak or antiquity, I think the term antiquity applies here.

She's able to sell it and they show that even still has the

banana peel in there.

Okay,

great. I'm

glad you we spent time doing that. So normally, for

animated movies, there isn't too many details behind the scenes

of the production. And this is not an exception. But there is

one factoid I found about behind the scenes about why things

might have gone a little off the rails for Batman ninja. But

before we get there, is there any comic relevance of Batman

Ninja is this? Is this a comic? Was this inspired by anything?

Not a thing at all inspired this film. This is an

original screenplay. The closest I could find is the history of

bat manga.

Okay,

this is a book that was put together back in 2008

officially as a paperback or, and the hardcover with a book

designed by Chip kid, but it collects the stories this book

is called bat Manga The Secret History of Batman in Japan. It

collects stories 53 chapters of Batman in Japan because at the

time of Adam West his era as Batman, there was a huge jump in

bat mania in Japan, leading to the Giro Quwata to craft 53

chapters of this manga with Adam West's Batman operating in

Japan. And the stories were just basically called Batman or

Batman written out in Japanese letters. Iran from April 1966 to

67th of May. And I only stopped because Batman craze had died in

Japan.

Something else cool came up. Yeah.

Um, so yeah, for a while, for what seems to be

almost like four years nothing was happening with it. It was

translated at one point and put into a giant nice graphic novel

or manga. And then later in 2008, as I mentioned, it finally

got that release into a paperback edition. And then soon

after it was to all three also, all 53 chapters were collected

into three volumes that you can pick up to date in Japan. And

this was actually written out in Japanese so we only got the

English translations of these in July of 2014 when they were

released weekly on Comixology hashtag not sponsored but I

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versions of any of these comics like I've caught up on so much

comics because of it really again not sponsored um, but they

released the English version of their so right now you can find

it in Japanese English and probably in this this Chinese

monologue but definitely in the more so in the earlier two. But

none of it actually has ever told a story about Joker

building a Mac and using hypnotism in order to trick

Batman or redhead being so aggro in the sense of

I'm shocked. Um, okay, so no common basis. So here's the

thing. Um, Batman ninja was originally crafted in Japan.

And, you know, the dialogue, everything was in Japanese when

it was brought to America for the dub, the writers, the CO

writers of the American Film who are responsible for the

translation, according to them, and they received a six page

script, detailing the beats of everything that happened in the

story in Japanese. And they said it made no sense. So they just

made their own story to make Batman ninja makes sense. So the

English version uses the same scenes as the Japanese version.

But the script is completely different. Um, I tried to

research what the differences might be because I did not have

the time to rewatch that. Subbed but no one's bothered to really

do it. So I can't tell you what this movie actually is. But this

movie is a completely different movie in Japan.

I guess I have to reveal a secret now. I found it

and watched it.

So what So what is it? What is it in Japan?

Can I just say the dialogue is significantly

better? The scenes are the same. There isn't much difference that

I really was able to find. Except just like, yes, some

dialogue notes are very different in terms of like,

Batman speech. When he's on that cliff, the biggest difference

that I saw, they actually had music score to a Oh, so that's

what I was thinking. That's what I was mentioning about like the

difference of like when you heard the music come up, and

they just got rid of it. And I saw the main The biggest

difference in it is that the English version tried to focus

on the speeches that they had. But the Japanese version really

tied it well with their music. That's really just it. I guess

also Alfred was a little bit more useful. Like he didn't have

like he had the same amount of scenes, but he actually

explained how he made black tea by fermenting green tea and I

was like, that's a pretty interesting thing. And

apparently he also has a hookup to Western foods. So that's how

he was able to keep Selena fed. And I don't know why Selena felt

like she couldn't eat anything in Japan scenes racist. So that

really does. But yeah, honestly, that's really those are really

the big differences. Just Alfred having a better understanding of

how to, I'm assuming smuggling Western food. And the music was

really the only big differences that I saw. But overall, more or

less, the dialogue was pretty much the same. Like I would say

don't invest too much and trying to find if you want to watch it

is very hard to actually pick up in America. I realized because I

was very upset about this. I rented the copy of it and

because it was like it came in it was saying it came in two

versions English and Japanese on Amazon. And then when I played

it the only audio they had available were English. English

dialogue boost high English dialogue boots medium

Why is media even an option?

They really were just like now we know what the

music and it was like the music really helped to make a

difference in this film. But beat for beat it's pretty much

the same. But I can see where it's just like it did they were

missing some parts of the script. They definitely had to

just make something out of nothing and yeah, um, this is

not my fight to say watch sub overdub. In this case actually

watch sub if you enjoy score music in your in your movies.

Yeah,

yeah, I think that's fair to say. Because yeah, I'd like

to see the original intent of this. And I feel like you get a

little bit closer with that. That's up. Yeah. But so there

Yeah, there you have it Batman ninja after all this time? Um, I

know this is gonna be a hard decision. But is this a cape? Or

is it it? Or is it is a ninja cape or just a cap that needs to

cover what the hell was going on with Davies

okay, this was actually a little tough for me.

But not because we haven't given a cape to a movie yet in this

universe. But visually, I will give this movie a cape. Dialogue

is straight up cat. English dialogue is straight up cap

nothing in it really makes sense. The execution of some

aspects of it's just really kind of like off in some cases. Like

it really did upset me that we didn't get actual scenes of just

like Batman being trained by these ninjas from the bat clan.

When it was like they kind of made it like a big deal that

they needed to work alongside them. And then instead, we just

got like a 20 minute sequence of Jason Todd abusing choker or the

quick pacing, but also just seemed very well because like

from the beginning, it did not stop. We were 35 minutes in and

that felt like at least a season of DBZ. It just didn't stop it

was just like Batman just kept fighting like this. In 35

minutes, we saw Batman vs Grodd Batman vs Joker in the forest.

That made meeting with Selena Batman vs. Arkham castle, and

finding his colleagues to save him. Batman meet teaming up with

Grodd grads betrayal. And this is again, this is 85 minutes, we

have more than an hour left in this film. And so much was

already covered that it just feels like too much got thrown

into the beginning. So we lost track of what was what could

have been middle parts like that could have easily been the

middle part with the whole grog twist and everything. And then

just immediately jumped to him having the having a speech on

the hill, maybe show a little bit of training. Maybe you could

do the one month later to explain that it took some time

for them to build out the castles and whatnot. But it just

felt like too much got shoved into this film. I would also say

to that like it's I did not like the Joker reveal of him. You

know, like I hypnotize myself to hide my true intent from you.

When we've kind of talked about you could easily just said that

Joker, they were under the impression that Joker was

killed. That man had to recover from that time, realize how much

he lost how many things were being sacrificed because that

would have been great if you just said Joker was killed off.

And we're back to our original villain who started this whole

entire film. And that could have been it. That really could have

been it. Other than that, I would say the fight scene some

fight scenes are good. Were kind of fun to watch like even though

the Batman Joker fight went on really long. I think there were

some visually cool scenes like when I think the smoke cloud

kind of passed by. There was a scene in which they were both

fighting against with swords and you saw the hits of the sword

shining through the shining through the smoke. And also when

I think the Joker got hit pretty hard. He kind of rose back up

and almost seemed as if he had transformed into a more evil

version of Joker. Like I get the attempt that they were trying to

do try to tie them with these like Japanese anime aesthetics,

but some stuff just seems too clunky and I wonder if maybe we

just China too. changed the way that the art style was like I

liked it. But I feel like for fight scenes like that it's a

little hard to do. And I kind of wished we kind of jumped into

more of what we saw really actually in the very beginning

of the film, I think it was and also Salinas part, where it's a

2d animation. Very much like what we see a little bit from

like juicy Kyson, or like Attack on Titan. Just give just give us

some flat animation, but very detailed. Let whoever is

animating that just cook with the fight scene, and it'll be

AI. But that's for me, cat for the for dialogue, and it's a

very weird middle ground. Cape visuals are great, but dialogue

needs some help. But ultimately, I will give it a cape. It's a

very small cape, though. Yeah. You kind of convinced us I see

why people enjoyed it. But to me, it still needs its moments

to fine tune. What about UK per cat?

I really went in here wanting to give it a que por the

unique ness of the script. Or maybe the Japanese version might

have something but two caps. So version, one for Batman's head

one for Robin said this movie. The pacing in this movie is so

bizarre. What they choose to spend time on is so bizarre.

There is quite frankly no reason why we didn't see the opening

battle of this media. Why don't we get to see him? Like Batman

run into Arkham Asylum. And all the villains are in cells. And

then when he turns on the machine, um, they are all

transported. Why did he need to do this in Arkham? Knight is not

a Batman villain, guys. I gotta keep saying it. Batman has a lot

of villains, but one of them is not Grodd why Arkham

specifically, it would have been cool to say there was a

geographic location a reason? Why did they go to Japan? Back

in Gotham is located in New Jersey most of the time. How did

they get to Japan even? I don't understand the beginning of the

movie, which makes it really hard to understand the rest.

Yeah, again, we I won't go back to the Red Hood thing. We've

beaten that with a crowbar to death. But

this movie has way too many characters as well. We didn't

need all of the Robins. We certainly didn't need the four

villains who spend most of the movie doing nothing until we get

to the end and then they're immediately mind controlled. So

it could be could have been anybody. Um, yes. So there's

just so many there's so many things that to that are

bizarrely spaced out in this movie. I really don't even know

what the the intent was. What I can say here is that if you're

really curious and you want something different from a

Batman story, I'd rather you go watch Mary little Batman I'd

rather you go aware of the Batman because I can understand

the intent of those things as much as I might not agree fully

with every alternate Batman story I can see what they're

going for you know a Gotham by Gaslight you know, kind of so my

Yeah, my art thing alteration is pretty similar to Gotham by

Gaslight. Just set it in this era. Just set it here. Right?

Just it's a Bruce in the past. He has Robin apprentices. He has

an outfit he has a cat woman, Joker is the big emperor. Mongol

taking over everything. Right. And, you know, he leads this

revolution based on a prophecy, you know, of Batman, because

also the prophecy with Max. It's really hard to do both at the

same time. And you didn't, it didn't work here because, you

know, it's funny. Power Rangers does this all the time where

they have prophecies, and also giant mechas. But it's

established Power Rangers has been going on for so long. And

they've been so many versions I can accept. I can accept the

blending of those two things. Because there was magic in the

past here. We never get an origin of the prophecy. We'd

never get anything from it. And so my alteration set it in this

time period, fully committed to it. If you're scared of fully

committing to it if you want tak and mechas, and everything like

that, because actually, I think it'd be even, I would be willing

more willing to accept if it was magic that turned them into

mykos. Yeah. Um, then technology brought from the past

retrofitted to Japanese homes. But yeah, if you really wanted a

twist, you could have it that in, like, at the halfway point,

they all realize that they're from present times and their

memories were just addled through the time traveler

process. And now, the last half of them all trying to get back

home, you could do that. I know. It's war world. But better.

Better. Yeah. That's the key part. But better. Yeah,

I just don't think we got much from them going back in the

past, and having that whole prologue. It just didn't. None

of that really worked. And I think there are great

opportunities as just one example, if it was time period,

you could have Red Hood, show up. And Batman could be like,

who are you? And he's like, I was beaten by the Joker

severely. So severely, I never show my face because his face is

never shown. Right. Yeah.

And that was something that also add some

issues with for the film to some of the character designs. Like,

again, I think, for Red Hood. I don't know what it is exactly.

But I'm assuming that it does have a connection to historical

Japan where, but it's that giant almost looks like a paper

lantern. It's just on his head. Yeah. And I thought that was

weird. I really would have because then at one point, he

does lift up his mask. And he shows to he has on another mask

underneath it. I was like, Why didn't we just give him like

maybe an oni mask or something like happen? Dress up more like

a ninja, give him the Oni mask. That way, he still it still

looks a lot like Red Hood. Because I don't know if it's

because they were trying to find a way to differentiate him from

from Red Robin, which at that point, just choose the Robins.

It's either Red Hood or Red Robin, don't maybe don't include

Damian because that hairstyle should not have just give us

something like that. And it did feel like it was a little extra

compared to it felt like they were just disrespecting the

Robins that they'd known to have aggro issues. It's like why do

that if you could just easily especially if they're supposed

to be ninjas. Now after being with the Klan for two years, I

would assume that the point would be for them to be

inconspicuous like that is very conspicuous. And that's the rest

of walking down the streets.

Yeah. Does it make sense if somebody Robbins it really

doesn't really doesn't. They're just far too many Robins in this

film. And they don't get enough to do except for Damian. And I'm

Yeah, again. I've beaten the Red Hood thing to death. Just the

normal way. So

yeah. We have an allotment of crowbars and

there's

one more um, but yeah, I think treating it treating the

law would have been cool. Like one more thing I'll throw out

there and then I'll leave it alone. Again if it's time

period, each Robin if you want all of them what the potential

list could have had. Imagine if Tim Drake comes in and says you

know Batman has adopted all these Robins that have been

displaced or or harmed personally by each each one of

the crime lords so you know Nightwing comes in and says

well, Penguin paid to have my parents killed we were traveling

performers. And Batman's like I took him in after his parents

were killed by traveling performers on penguins order to

face and Tim have a thing linked them up. Obviously Ratan Joker

had beef and instead of poison ivy whose powers aren't really

used well here Talia Italia and their and Talia be all the

baggage that comes with Damien.

Damien the even still worked with them on on the

well Deathstroke is more so with Nightwing Yeah,

barely using this movie anyways. Yeah, like honestly, I

feel like he was just thrown to show that like he

pays for it because like there was this one scene in which he's

just hugging up on the woman and it's just like all right, like

that's weird. I don't know what's happening in your in your

in your mid Castle But sir, we have to fight a battle right

now. Um, but yeah, it's just it definitely feels as if none of

that like you're saying like none the robins are really kind

Have I connected with their villains The only people who

seem to have connected with their villains because they

built out throughout the film, a reason for them to connect was

Harley Quinn and Catwoman because that multiple times they

fought against each other, each going, where each one had won

one battle before the last time and then like this last battle

was supposed to be it like, who's going to take it all? Do

that whole scene again take out the line about Girl on Girl

action. That felt like it was just pandering to try and say

that like hey, both of them are attractive. So this is what the

viewer wants to watch. It was like meanwhile, these are the

two Baddest, like fighters in like as of late within the DC

universe. It could just be that like the two of them had just

been going at it this entire time and they're like we really

need to sell this because at some point one had pissed off

the other enough that they had they were upset that they lost

the last battle. Yeah, um, but yeah, so as Batman and just

we've been we people have asked and question us to review. I

guess the official ruling is though that it is mostly kept.

So we're never going to talk about this again. Unless it's

just to ridicule it's especially then I'm never going to forgive

them from dropping that girl on girl action line that is just

really that was really weird and was really cringe more almost as

cringy as the redhead.

Yeah, we're collecting cringe lines. And that includes,

I still don't know if it's worse than women have been doing a lot

of saving around here. We should call this the ex women and

that's still that's still there. But on our sliding tear,

Dragonball Evolution is still in hell. But honestly, it's the

best of the worst that we've seen this month.

This is the official ruling. Um, I think right now

for me is actually a weird tie for different reasons between

this and Suicide Squad. And that's fair. I'm only saying

that because Batman Ninja is wonderful to look at. You can

literally play it in the background with no volume. And

people will think you have artwork on your walls. Like it's

visually Great. I'll give it that and I know that a lot of

people tend to gear towards defining a great movie as its

visuals but for me that's just not what it is. I need to hear

what's going on. And honestly, I would prefer not to hear what's

going on. Um, but ya know, I think it ties up with suicide

squad for number one spot of cake for cat films that we have

covered this month. So what about you? Were you thinking

I you know, this is an actual movie. It was an attempt

that didn't succeed fully. So for that, I feel like I will put

it at the top above Suicide Squad that was hacked to pieces

above Dark Phoenix that is just boring cuz I can say I wasn't

bored. I can say that much for Batman ninja and it moves

quickly enough. So top of the trash. So it's at the top of the

trash pile. Dragon Ball Sillas roasting owl. Yes. I just want

to just want to assure everyone that's where it belongs. Don't

never leave their home for infinite losers.

Oh, and speaking of X Men Dark Phoenix, don't worry

answer. We don't have to cover any more of the excellent. The

last. But someone did reach out and did mention the dialogue

that actually are kind of language that does get better

with spoken language loudly while in pain is patois. And I

can 100% agree with that. All

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