Review of Batman: The Killing Joke (2016) by Hmf_47 — 24 Jul 2016

The Killing Joke has always been a problematic story despite its iconic status. But Warner Bros somehow managed to raise its levels of disgust to 11. In case you thought Barbara Gordon getting fridged wasn't gross enough, now she is Batman's paramour (a moronic fetish Bruce Timm has for some reason). That's an even bigger betrayal of the Batman mythos than the Caped Crusader using guns and murdering by the dozen in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

Not only that, it's also a mediocre movie on its own. The animation looks like a cheap motion comic, Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill (who are usually excellent) blatantly phone in their performances, and it's just plain dull.

It's the equivalent of Limp Bizkit, i.e., it tries way too hard to be tough and shocking, but comes off as pathetic and desperate instead.