BATMAN: YEAR ONE - Discussion ***

Watched this animated adaptation of Frank Miller's 1987 graphic novel and have to say this is the best Batman story right after The Dark Knight. It is what "Batman Begins" should have been. Some might object to this since it's story is told through the eyes of Comissioner Gordon just when he first moved to Gotham City and around the time Bruce Wayne had returned and decided to start his crusade against crime. The movie is very adult oriented (keep the children in another room watching Spongebob, please). It pulls no punches in tackling such themes as child prostitution, infidelity, police corruption and of course violence, but all done tastefully, mind you. Its realistic portrayal of how corrupt the police force was in Gotham before Gordon came aboard and brought some level of honesty and the price he had to pay for it, is enough to make this a great story. My main complain was that Bruce Wayne/ Batman wasn't as well developed as Gordon and they choose the wrong actor to do the voice of Bruce/Batman. I wasn't crazy about having the origins of Catwoman here either, but it was different. The action is great and the animation is okay, but it tries to reproduce the graphic novel look, which was nice. Recommended. 8.5/10

 

Panch will you be checking out the Dark Knight XXX: A Leged WIll Rise porn parody?

 

WTF? is that for real?

 

Is Robin, The Boy Wonder in this?
I think Nolan dropped the ball by leaving him out: he's integral to the mystery and oft-discussed covered-up 'sexuality' of the Batman-myth.

 

No Robin here. It is the first year of Bruce Wayne/Batman & Gordon in Gotham. Robin might have been in elementary school at that moment, I guess.