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Instead, the animation style is more traditional, without sacrificing quality. Stylistically, this film has stepped away from the more anime inspired look that much of the other DC Animated Movies have adopted.

Gotham by gaslight movie review movie#

This story isn’t “canon”, so characters who wouldn’t normally be on the chopping block could be taken out at anytime, which give the movie a nice edge. Compared to other Batman animated movies recently, the stakes may seem lower but they feel higher than ever. But the fact that The Ripper is just a man and he comes so close to killing Batman makes him much more frightening. We’ve seen Batman fight armies of alien invaders and beings with all kinds of super abilities and come out fine. Batman gets pretty fucked up a few times in this movie. This isn’t the same Batman that could kick the shit out of Superman. One of the things that made this version of Jack The Ripper work for me is that he was a physical match for Batman. The movie does a good job of conveying that THIS Jack The Ripper is a terrifying butcher as well. The real life Ripper Murders always struck me as particularly brutal and vicious. This is easily one of the more bloody and gorey DC Animated Movies made so far.

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This movie takes full advantage of it’s R-Rating. Unfortunately, a lot of the supporting cast isn’t as fleshed out as Batman and Selina Kyle which is definitely a big weakness in the film.

I wont spoil all the fun cameos, but you get to see characters from Hugo Strange to Solomon Grundy throughout the story. Of course, it fun to see Victorian-era versions of the wide array of characters from Batman’s world. At the very end she has a little damsel in distress moment I wasn’t crazy about, but other wise she’s an ass kicking badass who is more or less Batman’s equal. She’s taking matters into her own hands because she knows if the victims were rich, white men instead of poor women, the police would be doing a lot more. She’s basically Batman’s partner in solving the murders. Besides Batman, Selina Kyle has the most to do in this movie. Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter) does some great work as Selina Kyle, but I don’t think they ever call her Catwoman in the movie. He’s played Batman before in movies like Batman: Under The Red Hood (one of the best DC Animated Movies) and the excellent Young Justice animated series, returning for it’s third season later this year. A blimp crashing into a Gotham City building.īruce Greenwood plays Bruce Wayne/Batman in this film and besides Kevin Conroy, I think he’s my favorite Batman voice actor. The movie looks like it’s was pulled out of the pages of an Arthur Conan Doyle story, which adds to the movie’s cool, steampunk, murder mystery vibe. It doesn’t hurt that the whole story takes place in a world that looks very much like the city of fictions other great detective and one of the inspirations for Batman, Sherlock Holmes (there’s a small Sherlock Holmes reference that only true Sherlockians will get). Batman’s incredible detective abilities are rarely utilized enough outside of comics. Batman’s often referred to as “The World’s Greatest Detective” in the comics, so I loved seeing Batman in a real mystery where he has to use his skills as a detective as much as his skills as a fighter. It’s a great premise that’s a natural fit for the character. So, the filmmakers had to add to the story, which is fun if you’ve read the graphic novel because you’re getting something that’s both a strong adaptation and completely new tale at the same time. For example, What if baby Superman’s spaceship crashed in Soviet Russia instead of Kansas? Or What if Batman hunted Jack The Ripper in Victorian-Era Gotham City? The original graphic novel of the same name that the movie is based on, with art by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, was too short to be adapted to a feature length film. “Elseworlds” are basically one off stories where you take a familiar hero and and put them in a unique setting or story they normally wouldn’t be in. Batman by Gaslight adopts a storytelling device often seen in comics called ”Elseworlds”. Jack The Ripper? To quote the great Kevin Smith “Fuck you.

An R-Rated, animated Batman movie, that’s essentially, Batman Vs.