Batman Ninja (2018)
Heroes and villains clash in feudal Japan, featuring epic battles and time-travel twists. Perfect for fans of DC and anime.
Genres: Animation, Action, Science Fiction
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Batman Ninja(2018)
Overview
Batman, along with many of his allies and adversaries, finds himself transported to feudal Japan by Gorilla Grodd's time displacement machine.
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Koichi Yamadera
Batman / Bruce Wayne (voice)
Wataru Takagi
The Joker (voice)
Rie Kugimiya
Harley Quinn / Harleen Quinzel (voi...
Ai Kakuma
Catwoman / Selina Kyle (voice)
Hochu Otsuka
Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
Daisuke Ono
Nightwing / Dick Grayson (voice)
Akira Ishida
Red Hood / Jason Todd (voice)
Kengo Kawanishi
Red Robin / Tim Drake (voice)
Yuki Kaji
Robin / Damian Wayne (voice)
Junichi Suwabe
Deathstroke / Slade Wilson (voice)
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The Penguin / Oswald Cobblepot (voi...
Takehito Koyasu
Gorilla Grodd (voice)
Toshiyuki Morikawa
Two-Face / Harvey Dent (voice)
Atsuko Tanaka
Poison Ivy / Pamela Isley (voice)
Kenta Miyake
Bane (voice)
Anna Mugiho
Monkichi (voice)
Juri Nagatsuma
Monmi (voice)
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This was ridiculous and fun. If you can let go and just watch them throw every possible anime trope into a silly Batman cartoon movie, then give it a whirl. You'#39;ll have fun. If you'#39;re looking for a serious Batman cartoon why have you picked up one titled **BATMAN NINJA**? Why so serious?
[spoiler] _What am I going to do with you, Batman? You'#39;ve destroyed a perfectly good giant robot castle._ - Joker, in Sengoku period Japan. [/spoiler] I think the quote sums this thing up well enough. I like Japan in general, I love anime, I can appreciate the creators for who they are, I can even appreciate certain elements like the style and the animation. I'#39;m also aware that cartoons often '#34;displace'#34; Batman, in time and/or in space. Having said all that... ooooooh boy, is this a mess. It feels like there were too many ideas and nobody was willing to let any of them go. If you'#39;re not bothered by so many staples of Japanese history / popular media all appearing in one movie, brought to you by some of your favourite DC characters (probably including more people from the Batman universe than any one movie should) - go ahead, you'#39;ll have a blast. If anachronistic mishmash in general disturbs you, you best stay away from this one.
I feel extremely sorry for those of you who expected a classical Batman movie in Japan. You got it all wrong. This is JAPANESE ANIMATION - WITH -'gt; BATMAN (and Ninja) An entirely different concept. Appreciate it for what it is and not for what you expected it to be, because you'#39;re 100% wrong.
This is the worst animated Batman movie I'#39;ve ever seen.
It'#39;s a complete mess. It'#39;s like the creators went thru an anime catalog. I almost can imagine the planning meeting. [spoiler] + Hey look! there are ninjas in this one. - Let'#39;s put it in the movie. [/spoiler] [spoiler] + I found some giant robots! - Those too. [/spoiler] [spoiler] + Uhm a monkey sidekick ? - Great! [/spoiler] [spoiler] + What about a giant golden monkey made of other monkeys being controlled by a couple of monkeys playing the trumpet? - Are you insane!? A trumpet? Let'#39;s make it a flute. + ( WTF? I guess he really likes monkeys ) [/spoiler] [spoiler] + I guess the more we put in it the more anime-ish it will be. Right? - Right! Just don'#39;t forget to sign our checks. [/spoiler]
This must be the most ridiculous Batman movie ever created, and I had so much fun watching it. The plot is a huge mess, full of silly anime clichès (they had to include mechas because JAPAN, right?) that don'#39;t make any sense whatsoever; but the animation is kinda nice, even if after some time it feels like you are watching a very long videogame cutscene. It'#39;s really a missed opportunity and that'#39;s too bad, '#39;cause the designs and the concept behind the movie was actually very cool, and unfortunately I felt as if they wasted some good characters [spoiler](like, there are these three ninja guys that really stand out from the other basic ninjas of the '#34;Batclan'#34; or how is it called, but the movie never really use them and two of them don'#39;t even have any line of dialogue, so what was the point in making them?!)[/spoiler]. So I really hope all of this was just a big advertisement for a soon to be Batman fighting game...
What a shitty movie, I'#39;ve wasted my 1.5hrs. Our hero and his villains get transported to ancient Japan, and suddenly they all form giant robots like Power Rangers and Transformers. I feel so disappointed, I thought after the whole foods of Justice League and overall failure of DCEU, I really really wanted Batman Ninja to succeed. I hope one day DC gets it right and it succeeds like anything.
Very enjoyable take on Batman, with some excellent animation design. Sure, it gets a bit bonkers towards the end, but it'#39;s not meant to be taken too seriously.
What did I just watch??!
Pretty cool art and animation ruined by idiotic story and dialogue. So very, very stupid.
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It's Batman Manga. It's Batman Japanese style and that really doesn't work. Some of the character redesigns are good, the Joker and Two-face look great, but the rest are meh and only really work because of the setting, but are otherwise a little less than inspired. I mean, Nightwing they phoned in, his redesign looks like, well, Nightwing present era. Red Robin also has the bare minimum of effort to change from present era Gotham to ancient Japan. But I guess... Voltron was the reason why it really flopped with me and when the monkeys hit it was just too out there, too manga, too anime, and not batman enough for me. And the thing is, for a character, Batman would lend himself to Japanese comics a lot easier than a lot of other characters, so to watch it fail like this was painful.
**TOTAL CRAP** TLDR The story itself has a lot of potentials. The outcome is in short total crap. Dialogues are childish and silly. I was wondering if I saw a Power Rangers movie. Seems to me a cultural obsession of Japanese people with Robots. Instead of a focus of deep characters, too many figures made it more confusing. There was slightly nothing about Japanese culture in the movie. Somehow it seems that the whole film was produced by 8 year olds. It has to just be a Ninja movie. If you go that road just add zombies, aliens and Godzilla to it. Total trash in short. Good animations don't make up for a silly and childish fantasy.
Okay, so I'm about to totally rail on _Batman Ninja_, but before I do that, I wanted to open it up with the following disclaimer: I thought multiple times throughout watching this "I wonder if this could be the sort of thing that's fun if you watched it in a group setting?". Personally, I watched it by myself, on a bad day, bedridden, feeling very, very unwell. And that's the experience I'm reviewing. Movies don't have to be grounded to be good. They don't have to be be standardised to be good. They don't even have to make sense to be good. Sometimes a movie is just silly fun and everything else is moot. But most of the time, the better a movie is (ie. The more you as the individual viewer are appreciating your experience) the more nonsense you are willing to forgive. It's easier to suspend disbelief, even a great big fat disbelief, if everything else in the movie is working. If not everything is working, but you're only called upon to accept a small amount of ridiculousness, then that will generally fly. But in some movies... In some movies, there is absolutely nothing that is working, and yet those same movies will ask you for the biggest, fattest suspension of disbelief of them all. _Batman Ninja_, is one of **those** movies. I could probably pick any one aspect I disliked about _Batman Ninja_ and write a full length review based on that single issue, but I generally try to keep these things pretty short, so rather than get into the plot, the deviation from source, the character choices, the dubbing, the animation style, the sexism, the science, the lapses in logic, the design choices, the dialogue, the nonsense, the inconsistencies within its own defined setting, the fact I was so bored at one point I literally fell asleep, or any number of the problems I've either blocked out or to list would require spoilers, I'll skip over all of that and simply say: This is the worst Batman movie I've ever seen. _Final rating:★ - Of no value. Avoid at all costs._
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