Lego DC Batman: Family Matters Review

Lego fans the company has produced alot of films based on DC Comics characters and well there latest film has leaked out now out. I'll be the first to admit that i totally forgot that this film was even coming out since i'm more focused on Batman:Hush which i'm going to say now i'm not one hundred percent sure if i'm going to be able to review it when it first comes out but we'll see anyways here is my review of Lego DC Batman: Family Matters.

The plot of the movie is a new villain called Red Hood has started to terrorise Gotham and it's up to the whole Batfamily to stop him and work out who he is. I'm just going to come out say it if you've read the comics or seen Under The Red Hood then you'll know right away who Red Hood is but this film isn't made with you in mind it's made with little kids in mind and so you can't be to harsh on them. 

In terms of what I thought of the story it was perfectly simple enough for a kids film but at the same time the core theme of Batman trying to open up was something that was already explored in The Lego Batman Movie so there was no need to have it in here since it's already the main focus of a much better Lego Batman movie and in all honesty it just feels lazy on the film makers part since there just copying others work.

Starring in the film is Troy Baker as Batman , Alyson Stoner as Batgirl , Scott Menville as Damian / Robin , Jason Spisak as Red Hood , Steve Blum as Scarecrow , Zach Callison as Billy Batson / Captain Marvel , Cam Clarke as Brother Eye & Bat Computer , Will Friedle as Nightwing , Ralph Garman as Wizard , Jake Green as Fred , Josh Keaton as Board Member , Tom Kenny as Gordon & Penguin , Christian Lanz as Harvey Dent / Two-Face , Nolan North as Alfred & Killer Croc , Andre Sogliuzzo as Riddler , Tara Strong as Batwoman and Fred Tatasciore as Solomon Grundy.

The acting in the film is honestly alot better then what it has any right to be if anything I think people would have forgiven these actors if they chose to foam it in in these movies. What does annoy in some ways but it makes since in others is the fact that Scott Menville is using the same voice he uses for Dick Greyson and all it does is make me want to watch Teen Titans or Teen Titans Go! To the Movies but it also makes sense since that's the voice that little kids will be used to hearing.

As per usual I couldn't find who did the animation for this film the closest I could find is The Lego Group but that's a long shot. The animation in the film is pretty good at least for a kids straight to DVD movie  but I honestly prefer the stop motion look of the big screen Lego movies as opposed to the fully CGI look of these straight to DVD movies but like I said the animation in the film isn't that bad it's just my personal taste.

There is one story thread which i'm shocked that they did because it's something that I never thought that any film would do. I can't really mention what it is because it's a spoiler and i'm trying to respect the film makers by not giving away plot lines but i'll say that when you see this movie hopefully you'll be as shocked as I was when it came up in the film and it's something that I now want more Batman films to deal with.

This film is stuffed to the prim with main villains there are at least three in this movie and that in my opinion is two to many. I've already mentioned Red Hood but there's also Two-Face and Brother I and there not really needed the film would have been much better if there was just one villain having three of them just makes the film feel bloated and you have to spend alot time explaining who each of them are and that takes time away from expanding on the plot.

As well as having to many villains there also to many plots going on at once every character apart from Batwoman has a subplot. You don't need alot of plots for a kids Batman movie especially when the main plot is strong enough and could easily support the whole film. So when you have all of these plots going on at the same time it means that none of them have time to fully develop and be as good as they could be because there fighting for time with several other storylines.

Now if i'm right this is the first Lego film to feature Batwoman and I have to say they did a pretty solid job with her. They don't go into the fact that she's a lesbian which in this case is really understandable but they show us enough so that we get the message that she's a woman not to be messed with and that is honestly all we need to really know about her at this point since she's getting a TV series that's due out on The CW in October.

Since this is a Lego movie there's alot of jokes in this but shockingly there's not as many as I was expecting. Given the jokes that we did get however tho that's a good thing because alot of the jokes in this film just aren't that funny there's one or two jokes that might get a smirk out of people but that's really it the rest are the kind of jokes that you would expect them to make and there just as unfunny as you'd think they are.

This is a superhero film and so that means that there are action scenes and in my opinion the action scenes in the movie aren't that bad there also not that good either. What makes me say that is the fact that you can tell that the team is trying to be creative by putting the heroes in unique and fun situations but it feels like either Lego or Warner Bros or maybe even DC was holding them back by forcing them to do certain things be it making a joke or or by cutting the scene of to early.

Overall there is fun to be had with this film like there is with all of the Lego films but I can't honestly find myself recommending this film since it does use the same theme as The Lego Batman Movie and that's just pure lazy to me maybe little kids will like it but for this batfan it gets a 5.5 out of 10 from me.