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Batman: The Killing Joke

Warner Bros. Animation

DC Entertainment

United States of America

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Kevin Conroy

Mark Hamill

Tara Strong

Ray Wise

John DiMaggio

Robin Atkin Downes

Brian George

JP Karliak

Andrew Kishino

Nolan North

Maury Sterling

Fred Tatasciore

Bruce Timm

Anna Vocino

Kari Wahlgren

Rick D. Wasserman

Jon Suzuki

Isamitsu Kashima

Brian Master

Alan Burnett

Kelly Ann Foley

Kazuyoshi Takeuchi

Matt Singer

Matthew Mahoney

Darren Griffiths

Amy McKenna

Mark A. Keatts

Kohei Kenmotsu

Michael Garcia

Ed Adams

Greg Emerson

Liz Carroll

Michael Uslan

Michael McCuistion

Seigo Kitazawa

Patrick J. Foley

Daphne Fei

Bobbie Page

Brian Azzarello

Benjamin Melniker

Sam Register

Kristopher Carter

Lolita Ritmanis

Shinji Saito

Yuji Nakao

Sam Liu

Bill Finger

Robert Hargreaves

Bob Kane

Christopher D. Lozinski

Wes Gleason

Brian Bolland

Austin Singleton

Not even the voice acting could save this movie. Check out my full review here.

http://www.hweird1reviews.com/allreviews/the-killing-joke-movie-review

Gimly

Shares the few weaknesses of the short comic it is based on, but adds a bunch of its own new weaknesses to try and get it up to a theatrical runtime and justify its cinema release.

I think part of the reason the reception for _The Killing Joke_ has been so overwhelmingly negative is that the expectations were so high going in. But that wasn't without cause. It sees the long awaited return of both Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill to their famed DC roles, and the comic it's based on is widely regarded as one of the better stories ever published by the company. And of these lofty expectations, _The Killing Joke_ falls short.

Hamill is great, and Kevin Conroy usually is as well. There are a couple of occasions that the latter slipped though. I don't know if he's rusty or just didn't care, but his voice performance is not 100%. The story essentially meets that of its source material, but rather than expand the existing story, they chose to awkwardly force an entirely different one in beforehand, to the point that this is essentially two episodes of two different shows, rather than a single cohesive movie.

_The Killing Joke_ is a little gross and is not the return to form for DC Animation that we all had hoped it would be, but the final sequence is fantastic and I don't know that the movie overall deserves quite as much vitriol as it has had.

_Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._

The first 30 minutes was wasted with Barbara being so annoying! I just didn't see why that whole bit was thrown in when the movie itself is meant to center on the Joker.

Even with Mark Hamill's final bow out as the iconic villain couldn't save the film. Still, at least that joke at the end was a little amusing!

Other than that, they could've done better with the story.

OK, so I'll admit I was expecting something closer to the graphic novel, and I was pretty disappointed that it only really loosely followed something that was epicly brilliant as the comic.

However, I'm not a stickler for total accuracy.

And, really it is better than most of the other Batman movies, it does manage to tell a good story and reveal some of the Joker's ever-changing and never consistent backstory, even if it does gloss over a lot of it.

In the end, especially in this current era it's a reminder of how great comic books used to be and how great they could be again if they only started telling actual stories once more.

_The Killing Joke_ deserved a better adaptation. Not even that. Just re-edit this to cut out the first half and you have a perfect adaptation. This is one of my favorite Batman stories ever. Unfortunately, the first part is spent irrelevantly on Barbara, and has largely nothing to do with the rest of the movie. However, after about a half hour of filler, the ACTUAL adaptation of _The Killing Joke_ is awesome. Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill deliver another classic performance of Batman and Joker. Half of this movie I despise and half of this I love.

5/10

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