Audience reviews
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Dilsu
In short, if you want a good Batman movie - watch that latest one, whatever it was called
If you want a GREAT Batman movie - watch the 1966 one, it was hillariously jank and I loved every second of it
BUT. If you want a good Batman movie that leaves you and your friends baffling what on earth did y'all just watch
Boy howdy, this may just be the thing
The first half of the movie is so extremely unique visually, you'd think the director crystalized the essence of Swag, then proceeded to crush it up and snort it through a silly straw. But then Batman learns about the power of friendship and sucks out all that uniqueness. And I'm only exaggerating a little. But there's a megazord fight afterwards so it balances out.
I can't say much about the plot because there's barely any. Half the villain…
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To be honest this is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.The pacing sucks,the action is way too random and has a lot of gaps. Story was a clichee.I pretty much forced myself to watch the movie and focused more to not fall asleep.
The only things that are likable in this movies are the monkeys. JK JK The characters are ok, and the artstyle fits the concept well.
Sound effects were pretty bad and that one song during the final battle made me cringe.
I did not enjoy the movie and also do not reccomend it.Unless you are a hardcore DC fan .
Read at the sourceNEROJIRO
Prefacing this with the fact that I watched both the English (twice) and Japanese (once) versions of this movie before writing the review.
Batman Ninja is so shamelessly and unapologetically out of its mind. The people who worked on this clearly poured their heart into this movie even if it doesn't follow the conventional molds of what people expect from Batman and anime in general, and that's what makes it so good. They know it's cheesy and over the top, and they know it's a chaotic mess, yet they continue to ramp it up with more crazy shit that leaves you stunned. There are mechs and swordfighting and guns, and they completely changed Damian's original personality to a shonen protagonist type character because he's the token young male character. Batman even does Naruto hand signs at so…
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Ninja Batman is a cool idea with a nice visual style. I saw a short clip of it on the internet— so hey— I'll check it out.
It's a shame the movie is dreadful.
My biggest gripe with the movie, is the audio. Holy shit. It is BAD. It makes the movie UNWATCHABLE. It's not even the dub quality, (Which may be great to awful, depending on what you think about English VA's) it's the mixing.
Watching this movie, sounds like someone is actively dubbing over EVERYTHING. Anything that is not speech is rendered to a mere whisper. It makes every single moment in the movie feel weightless and empty. Action scenes feel like they are being played on mute. When someone talks there is a palpable awkwardness in the air. It doesn't help that the CGI looks janky at times. The exaggerated Japanese lip sync…
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This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen. How can you not like this masterpiece. I mean this has the most bullshit plot twists i've ever seen along with the complete and utter lack of any fucking logic. 10/10 would watch again.
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Read at the sourceSatire_Buffalo
Yo when i watched this it made me cry because of how bad it is
also at least if you are going to watch it 100% DONT WATCH THE DUB IT IS SO BAD!
I was not a big fan of the story, animation, sub/dub, I experienced 0 enjoyment and i cant see why anyone would like this garbage
this will be a waste of your time do not watch if you dont want to experience pain inside
this is just my opinion, its bad so please tell me why you think its good as I would like to know someones opinion to see if they have the same opinion
Read at the sourceLeopoldex
Superheroes are inherently silly. Every serious superhero is just twisting the idea
of an actual classic heroic figure.
Batman is literally a guy that dresses up like a bat to fight criminals, uses bat-themed weapons, driving a bat-themed car, motorcycle and flying a bat-themed plane. Does that seem realistic to you?
Batman is silly, so why can't there be a silly movie about Batman? If more people were to accept that idea, this movie wouldn't be this overhated. It's not your ordinary Batman film but it's not trying to be. Who the hell expected a serious story from the guy that created Kill la Kill and wrote Gurren Lagann? Anime was made to be fun, the same goes for comics, so why does everyone think both mediums should be realistic, deep and dark? There's nothing wrong with these kinds of…
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This movie is amazing, I loved it. I'm a huge fan of both the Batman characters and Japanese culture and this movie is a beautiful explosion of both. With lots of actual beautiful explosions. The art is fantastic, and the music is gorgeous. Now that I've got that out of the way I can say why other people might not love it as much.
The main idea is that the main characters in Batman get sent to feudal Japan. The characters that get focused on are Batman, Catwoman, Joker, Harley Quinn and Gorilla Grood. I'm certain that the only reason other characters are there is because the people who made this movie liked them.
The writers assume that you already know who the characters are. Now that I think of it, there is no mention whatsoever of any character's backstory. So if you don't know who…
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I've talked about some Marvel related anime before with Blade & X-men. It seemed about time I looked at something DC related. This film came out in April & June of this year with a screenplay by Nakashima Kazuki and relative newcomer studio, Kamikaze Douga, handling the animation. So, how well does it portray the Dark Knight? Will it surpass Mask of the Phantasm as the best Batman animated film?
Story:
We open with Bats headed for Arkham Asylum where the villainous Gorilla Grodd is conducting an experiment. Now, you may wonder why they would poach a villain from the Flash for this when Bats has such a stellar rogue's gallery of his own. I don't know, because no one cares about the Flash since they de-powered Wally West. The result of the experiment is Batman, Catwoman, the Arkham inmates…
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The art and the animations are great. It seems really odd at the beginning, but the amount of details is incredible. The characters look amazing and the whole film has that ancient Japan look to it.
The story is a bit trash, to be honest though, but what do you expect from the "Batman and all the others time-travel to feudal Japan to become ninjas" anime? Very light spoiler ahead! My main issue with the story was that Power Rangers stuff in the middle of the film. You know when you'll see it.
Still, everything else was very good. I think the creators did a really good job bringing Batman to anime. It's really hard to review this without spoilers, but I think you should definitely check out the Ninja Batman movie.
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Overview:
Good Ol' Kazuki Nakashima. This is the madman that wrote Gurren Lagann and Kill La Kill. Now he has returned to tackle the DC comics universe and have his own run on Batman. Have you ever wondered what it would be like if Batman were as gloriously stupid and over the top as TTGL? Your wish has been granted!
Plot:
Gorilla Grodd has invented a time machine and ends up sending the Batman Family and several of the Dark Knight's rogues' gallery back to feudal Japan. Why Nakashima went with Grodd when he is supposed to be a Flash villain, I honestly have no idea. Batman and Grodd are the last to tumble through the time portal, so when they arrive the others have already been there for 2 years. The Batman villains have each created their own fiefdoms and are fighting each other for…
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About as hot garbage as the DC movies in general lately, but for completely different reasons, because "Japan" - that means giant mechs and all the typical Japanese trope stuff.
Now that wouldn't be bad in and of itself. I'm even on board with the premise of going to feudal Japan with Batman. Good idea, could get crazy! But the way it was executed?! I can't write spoilers however, so I'll say this: the ending is so hilariously bad that I just can't help but laugh as I literally tear my hair out. It's so bad it's almost good, but then takes an additional load of crap onto itself and makes it terrible again.
Artstyle? Good. Music? Awesome. Characters? ehhh, the Joker kinda saved the day. Story? "Oh, no!"
Read at the sourceMontagueRy
I'll preface this by saying a) I watched the English version, which apparently has an entirely different script than the Japanese and b) I haven't seen much of other Batman Animated movies so I don't know if they are all supposed to be like this.
That being said:
TL;DR - This is worse than Suicide Squad.
Maybe this is supposed to be a fun, gimmicky popcorn flick with quirky anime-batman hybrid redesigns and moments, but this was just too much.
Story: absolutely nutty - problems arise and are solved at complete whims and deus ex. Here's an example (spoilers). The batman villian's combine their mecha castles to convert into a mega amalgamation a la Super Sentai. Damian Wayne as monkey robin summons an army of monkeys to fight it. They, too, combine into a mega monkey mecha, but it's not…
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A combination of a great superhero in a great medium, Batman Ninja made for an entertaining romp, giving something for both fans of the character and anime to enjoy.
The story is pretty straightforward, focusing mostly on the Batman vs Joker part. Everything is fast paced and seems to be fuelled by the Rule of Cool (as expected from the writer of Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill), making for some truly awesome stuff going on. Rarely does the story waste time or stretch things out, keeping me entertained from beginning to end.
Speaking of entertained, while some might be sceptical about the CGI, the blend between this and the drawn art is stunning. The action is well-directed and fluidly animated and since most of what’s happening is action, I feel blessed.
Now, as for the characters, t…
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It's like DC Gintama, accidentally or not.
I can't believe anyone green-lit this, it takes all the tropes of a JUMP anime and smashes it into one convenient unintentionally hilarious package.
The voice acting is overboard. The cuts are abrupt. The hairstyles are hilarious. Everyone makes alliances of convenience you wouldn't normally see in universe. The plot is so contrived, and doesn't really make a whole lot of sense- but that's nothing abnormal for an OVA DC movie. There are lots of explosions which pad the area you would normally expect to see any plot or character development. It seems to somehow have both a tenuous grasp of both the European and Japanese cannon.
It's so bad it's good.
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Batman Ninja is a popcorn movie that tries to do a lot of things with a lot of characters. While there are a plethora of ideas for characters, conflicts, and theming, none of them really get developed into anything more than mere story beats. What you're left with is several extremely entertaining set-pieces that are laughably absurd, but without any real meat to them.
If your goal is to spend 90 minutes in fun anime and cartoon clichés, mustache-twirling villains and all, you've come to the right place. If you are looking for something that's not as shallow as a puddle, you should look elsewhere.
Pitch your tent and light a bonfire, because we've got some serious camp here.
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I overall liked this movie. Characters and story are fun and interesting, art is beautiful and it refrences feudal Japan and Batman comics quite well and music is good fit for this series as well (for similar reasons as artstyle). But where this series looses points in my eyes are pretty much all action scenes.
During action scenes there was too much noise on the screen and thus it was hard to follow what was happening during action scenes. After pretty much every action scene I was like: "Yep.. some things happened during that scene. Although I don't know what excactly". Also what made those action scenes bad where nonsensicle reveals during them. Okay.. Now we have robots. Okay they had managed to build a submarine. Okay. Instead of reveals like that I would have liked to see more stra…
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Story: 1
Nothing atypical from the realms of DC when they are not actively implementing a propagandistic agenda (Endless resurrections, extraterrestrial invasions, the very conception of duela dent. Nothing too outlandish). In other words, a sentient gorilla sends all profitable DC characters back in time to Feudal Japan. Colonization ensues. All villainous characters transported back in time are now actively ruling sectioned states as feudal lords. Batman, meanwhile, has conveniently obtained back his batmobile, batfamily, and an entire "batclan" during this Feudal Farce. Nightwing dons Final Fantasy Cloud's hair for complimentary purposes while Red Hood's costume equivalent is a red basket which could cause the wearer to become prone to imbalance, blindness, and uneven tan lines (strange…
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Two months ago, Pop Team Team epic did their Batman vs. Joker crossover. One month ago, Dethklok animated music video series was continued with 'Batmetal Forever'. And today, Batman Ninja was released. Christopher Nolan was first bitch slapped in the face, then kicked in the nuts and now not even a 5-dimensional bookshelf can save him from the power of the new Batman Trilogy, and neither can it save you.
Story:
Batman is a manly man. This makes many people angry, so they decide to travel to Japan and kick his ass. Unfortunately for them, Batman is also a pretty bro person, so he calls his buddies Lobin, Alveleddo and Naito Wingu (Robin, Alfred and Nightwing if you weebs don't speak Japanese) and ask "yo, wanna kick some ass" and they be like "cool" and then they do. That's pretty much th…
Read at the sourceKaizerRev
Fantastic movie! This is my 1st review btw, SPOILER WARNING ALSO!
There were references and easter eggs from JoJos Bizarre Adventure, Gurren Laggan, Code Geass, Naruto, Black Lagoon, Cowboy Bebop, and even the 1988 Batman movie from what I gathered!
Story
Very well done, although I wanted more then just 1 movie, here's hoping for a sequel!
Art Animation was great, it reminded me of what Borderlands 3 may look like whenever it gets revealed.
Sound
Effects were on fleek
Characters
There's quite a bit to say about the characters, There's most of all your favorite heroes and villains all in 1 85 minute movie with some unique changes. Bane was hilarious in the brief scene he was in and 2 face was a total badass! And the Joker was a great villain as usual along with Grodd who was surpri…
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