Review of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013) by Brent D — 28 Sep 2013

First off, I think Michael Emerson may be my new favorite joker voice, at least as far as evil and creepiness go (though Hamill still wins for insanity levels and Ledger combines all three). he manages to instill his Joker with unthought-of levels of fear and crazy which make him both hard to look at and hard to turn away from.

With that out of the way, this second half of the TDKRe story feels just slightly removed from the first. The post-nuke scenes feel a little sappy, and the sudden dropping of non-orphan/non-poor Carrie's parents from the world is just pathetic, not to mention the apparent ease with which she gets over (life-shattering semi-spoilery event removed).

That said, the uses of Superman and Oliver Queen/Green Arrow in the final act are sublime, and the ending is very satisfying, leaving us with a great movie that apart from one plot hole could stand as one of the best Batman films of all time.