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Batman Ninja
Ninja Batman
Japan / USA 2018
produced by
Leo Chu, Eric Garcia, Tetsuro Satomi (animation producer), Benjamin Melniker (executive), Michael E. Uslan (executive) for Kamikaze Douga/DC Comics, Warner Brothers
directed by Junpei Mizusaki
screenplay by Kazuki Nakashima, based on the DC Comics comicbook characters created by Bob Kane, Bill Finger, Marv Wolfman, George Pérez, Paul Dini, Bruce Timm, Chuck Dixon, Doug Moench, Graham Nolan, music by Yugo Kanno
anime
Batman, Joker, Harley Quinn, Robin, Gorilla Grodd, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Deathstroke, Nightwing, Penguin, Two-Face, Bane
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Gorilla Grodd wanted to be villain supreme in Gotham City so he points
his earthquake machine onto Arkham Asylum to get rid of all the other
super villains - but thanks to Batman's interference, everybody gets
transported back to feudal Japan. For some reason, Batman arrives two
years after everybody else, and somehow his car and even his butler Alfred
are already there waiting for him. Meanwhile, the Joker, Harley Quinn
always by his side, has become the most powerful villain here, and of
course Batman wastes no time attacking his castle, but the castle's robot
arms (!) destroy his car, his plane and even his bike, and Batman only
just escapes - to find his allies Robin, Red Robin, Red Hood, Nightwing
and Catwoman, plus a gang of ninjas who wear batmasks, wanting to fight
the Joker with him. And even Gorilla Grodd, who's miffed that the Joker
has become all that powerful, wants to help. So Batman and associates
launch an attack against the Joker, which is successful even, but then
Gorilla Grodd, with the help of Two-Face, turns on Batman, and it all ends
in a giant explosion. Batman awakes only a couple of days later, and in
the meantime, Gorilla Grodd has taken over the Joker's castle and plans to
go against the other villains, as in Poison Ivy, Deathstroke, Two-Face and
the Penguin, who of course all also reside in castles - and of course, all
these castles are really giant robots in disguise (!) which eventually go
against one another. Re-enter the Joker, who was thought to have lost his
mind in above explosion, but who's actually as bad as ever, and now he
violently reclaims his castle from Gorilla Grodd, somehow defeats all the
other villains and takes all their giant robots to build an enormous robot
for which Batman and friends are no match - but Robin has a flute that can
summon monkeys, who gather to form a giant monkey out of their body, and
when that monkey's not strong enough, enter myriads of bats who gather
around the giant monkey to make it into a giant Batman, and ... Well,
ultimately Batman defeats the Joker of course and everybody's returned to
the 21st century. So ok, from reading this you might already
have guessed, this makes little sense, and at times the film almost feels
like a parody in throwing more and more madness at the audience while
making the plot more and more far-fetched to a point where disbelief is
suspended beyond breaking point. At the same time though, Batman Ninja
is a visual feast, handily combining traditional Japanese art with modern
animation and putting the characters of the Batman
family into very unfamiliar settings in a very stylish way. Actually, the
on-screen madness aside, the film has a very artsy feel to it, and the
great pictures really help accept the whackiness of the plot - and the
whackiness of the whole thing is at least some fun even in a delightful
"what the fuck am I just seeing"-way. It's certainly not
something anybody should take seriously, but if you don't you'll probably
enjoy this more than you expect.
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