Batman Ninja (2018)

I'm not someone who reviews films online, but this was so pitifully done that it deserves some criticism.

Given that anime is a visually-focused story telling medium, it can be expected that dialogue will rarely be taken seriously. Unlike western animation, scripts are usually only developed after the animation is complete. For this reason, WB allowed for the English language version to develop independently from the Japanese, expecting that doing so would ensure that the film was authentically Batman while allowing the animation team in Japan to focus on making an authentically anime creation of their own. However, the result is the most mindless Batman script ever created in an animated film. The animation has its moments, but is completely overshadowed by the dumbest and least observant Batman ever created. For the world's greatest detective to ask who a group of samurai wearing Joker masks are working for is just lazy storytelling. This Batman has none of the characteristics that make him an attractive character and the voice acting feals forced and overdone.

I never trust these types of crossover endeavors because they rarely allow for either medium's strengths to fully materialize. Reading that this was to be scripted independently in English made me curious to see if there would be some more substance to the story to go along with the flashy animation, but it's a hard pass. There's some chance that the Japanese version might make a little more sense, but I don't see how this poorly constructed story allows for much improvement. A hard pass.

Fmovies: I love Batman. I love anime. I love cheesy anime conversations. But I hate an emptied character and script despite a huge potential.

Batman is NEVER about his gadgets. Look at the Arkham Knight game, Red Hood thinks Batman is all about his gadgets and nothing without them, but Batman proves him wrong with his gigantic intellect and training. Granted, he relies on his gadgets on his day-to-day operations. However he never despairs when he loses any of them. On the contrary, he willingly sacrifice his gadgets and tools like they are nothing, because he is the weapon.

If anyone says "its's an interpretation of Batman" an interpretation is about nuances, settings, surroundings; not the main subject. If you take what makes Batman out of Batman, it's not an interpretation, it's Dark Knight Rises...

Decent artwork though...

Listen to the other reviewers. It was bad, very very bad. Anime was crazy and most of the time it was like a telltale series cut scene anime that was nonsensical. The story was all over the place messy and not easy to follow because it kept changing one second to the next drastically. I struggled to keep watching it I constantly checked how much time was left I had to struggle through. Worst Batman anime to date even worse than the killing joke, which was terrible. Dull predictable story. I wanted to like this but in the end I just couldn't.

Batman Ninja fmovies. I refuse to believe the 10/10 reviews are real...

I dont know who is green lighting these projects lately at dc animation but they should be fired. This movie would be entertaining to a young child who knows very little about batman and is super into weird animes.

It drops the ball on what could be an interesting concept of a fuedal era batman and ends up with an over the top mess of cliches it struggles to stick with throughout. Story line sucks and feels lazy, animation is "meh" and inconsistent without purpose.

Though I wasn't impressed with Gotham By Gaslight (2018) I respected what they were trying to do and it was an interesting attempt at an alternative Batman tale.

With Batman Ninja I expected more of the same, little did I realise I was about to watch the worst animated superhero movie I've ever seen.

Japanese made and set in fuedal Japan we see Batman, some allies and a host of villians ripped through time and into one of the biggest embarassments I've seen in years.

With alternating animation styles (None of which I like), a laughable story which contradicts itself multiple times and more than a little influence from Power Rangers this is beyond words.

I'd say it was a Batman comedy like the Adam West throwbacks or Lego Batman if it didn't take itself so seriously. I mean I am truly lost for words just how bad this is, it starts off poor and gradually just gets more and more ridiculous until I found my jaw actually dropping at the level of stupidity.

Batman Ninja is even worse than the title suggests, I want to rant about this atrocity but if I begin this will be a insanely long review.

I'm not sure who this is aimed at but I'd be surprised if even the most hardcore of DC fans will enjoy this.

The Good:

It's original I'll give it that

The Bad:

Not fond of the animation style

Weak voice acting

Story really is quite bad

Whole thing is ridiculous and can't be taken even remotely seriously

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

During feudal Japan the primary language was English

Artwork, great. Voice acting, ok... But story??? I don't know WHO is giving 9's & 10's for this, but if you like this Batman story hey, more power to you.

I was done with this after the first 20 minutes. I watched it all just cause I couldn't believe the writing.

Good grief...

The 4 of the 10 is for the artwork. It is nice.