Review of Batman: The Killing Joke (2016) by Gentm2015 — 24 Jul 2016

Batman: The Killing joke is an animated superhero film directed by San Liu. It is a direct adaptation of the graphic novel with the same name that came out in 1988. It stars the voices of Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, Tara Strong and Ray Wise.

The comic book that the movie is based on is a classic and most anybody has heard of it. It is basically the origin of the Joker and involves a lot of graphic content. That's the main reason as to why this movie is rated R, the first animated film to be so.

I personally really liked it, the animation is not great unfortunately especially considering that DC has had better "animated" movies in the past. But the story is engaging and interesting all the way through.

There's a lot of controversy about Batgirl in this film, mainly because "she's objectified" and her only purpose is to serve as a motivation for Batman (and another "dirty" purpose for the Joker).

But that is absolutely stupid in my opinion, it is reminding me of the controversy over the X-Men Apocalypse poster where Jennifer Lawrence's character Mystique was being choked by Apocalypse. Fox had to apologize for THAT because feminism nowadays is out of hand.

But that nonsense behind, the action scenes are really good, the voice actors all do a phenomenal job and while it is a bit short, it is still a good animated entry for the DC Universe Animated Original Movies.