Batman fans yesterday I brought you a review of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 so it only seems right that today I finish this story of by bringing you a review of the second part so here is my review of Batman: the Dark Knight Returns Part 2 enjoy it batfans.
So then what is the plot of this movie I pretend your saying right now well Batman has finally returned but so has an old foe and he's out for vengeance the only way he knows how. I know i'm being really vague in the plot summery but that's because honestly there really isn't that much of a story outside of what I described but I will give the film this it does have pretty solid pacing.
Returning from the first film is Robocop as Batman , One of the hot chicks from Modern Family as Robin , Michael Emerson as The Joker , Maria Canals-Barrera as Commissioner Ellen Yindel , David Selby as Jim Gordon and Michael Jackson as Alfred Pennyworth. Honestly it's hard for me to say which of the returning cast did the best job since all of them are really good in this movie altho it's pretty strange hearing Peter Weller playing Batman and fact after when I went to watch this movie all I could hear in my head was Robocop.
They are joined by Mark Valley as Superman , Robin Atkin Downes as Oliver Queen , Tress MacNeille as Selina Kyle , Jim Meskimen as President Ronald Reagan and Conan O'Brien as David Endochrine. What's Interesting about this film is voice acting legend Tara Strong provides additional voices for this film so if you hear a character that sounds like Bubbles now you know why.
Out of the new cast I'd have to say that my favorite was Mark Valley as the big blue boy scout just because he portrays a more wiser version of the character and I think that's a more interesting take on a classic character.
Thankfully I didn't need that many Shovels this time because I already knew that returning to do the animation for this film was Moi Animation and I have to say that the animation in this film was slightly better then the previous I sat slightly because you still get the odd looking drawing but they make up for it with the well animated fight scenes which for me is when you should always get the best animation.
Honestly there's not that much that really bugged me about this film which is strange for me just because there's usually a few things that really annoy me in films but i've pretty much mentioned the only real issues I personally had with the film so if your expecting me to crack jokes about how bad the film this I really can't because it's a good film.
I will say that if you want to see a better version of Batman V Superman then this is fr sure the film because this film handles there conflict so much better if I remember right in the theatrical cut of BVS there conflict is pretty much summed up in one sentence but here we are given multiple scenes so when they finally do come to blows we fully understand why they are fighting instead of "let's fight because it would be funny".
Now I've received comments pretty much saying why I should have read the original graphic novel first the reason why I chose to take a look at the movie versions first is because A) despite The dark Knight Returns only being three issues since they can have as many pages as they need per issue it means you could have alot of filler and B) I'm honestly lazy in the time it would have taken my to get through all the issues I could have watched both parts of this movie.
If Batman doing the cover pose in the movie was deemed as fan service then this movie has a scene which is fan service if your an American and I think the above image pretty much says it all it's such a pro America image that it really doesn't fit in with the rest of the film if the scene was Superman dressed in a suit talking to Bruce and Eagle happened to fly over heard it would work but just look at it how is this image not pro America.
I touched on this briefly in this review but the fight scenes in this film are really freaking good and unlike freaking BVS there was no "Martha" moment either in those scenes and this is where the film being a UK rated 15 really worked because in the final fight with Superman you feel every single punch and you get to see both heroes bleed.
Overall this is was a pretty good conclusion to the first film but if I were to choose i'd say that the first film was better and as you can tell by the above image i'm really looking forward to the Hush animated movie that's coming out I give this film a 7.5 out of 10.