Review of Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010) by Clyde S — 27 Dec 2010
After rewatching this film I now take back what I said about Justice League: The New Frontier being DC's finest animated film and proclaim Under The Red Hood to be DC's best.
Once again Andrea Romano assembled a top notch voice cast for this movie. Bruce Greenwood is the voice of Batman and is my favorite batman. He nails the role of the character perfectly. Neil Patrick Harris voices Dick Grayson/Nightwing and actually is quite good. Jensen Ackles voices Jason Todd/Red Hood and while the others in the film are also great, he really does the best besides Vincent Martella who voices teen Jason Todd in the flashbacks. In fact I even like John Dimaggio as the Joker better than Mark Hamill. I would love to see an animated featuring all these actors and have it set during Jason's years as Robin because he's my favorite Robin.Plus Jason Todd has the coolest costume as Robin.Jason Isaacs gives a fantastic performance as Ra's Al Ghul despite that he's hardly in the movie at all.
Judd Winick who wrote Under The Hood put together an amazing screenplay that never feels too long or too short just perfect. He is able to take two stories and put together perfectly into a 75 minute movie and does so perfectly.The animation is fantastic and the CGI vehicles aren't as bad as I previously thought they were. Christopher Drake gives an amazing score to complement the film.
This is the definitive Batman film because it succeeds where all the Live-Action ones have failed and that is remaining true to the character and the comics, something The Dark Knight failed at.
Overall the finest film to come from DC yet and the best Batman film yet.Highly recommended but definitely not kids since this movie has a very complex plot and is very violent. Still parents can't seem to figure it out that Batman isn't a kids characters and never will be. In fact one day a man was going to rent his son this movie from Redbox and I almost told that it is so not appropriate for kid to watch.
This review of Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010) was written by Clyde S on 27 Dec 2010.
Batman: Under the Red Hood has generally received very positive reviews.
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