Batman: Hush Film Review Which WILL Contain SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ladies and gents this weekend is San Diego Comic-con and at the event DC held the world premier of their latest film Batman: Hush. Now i'm not in America and I tickets to the event would cost to much so I got the digital copy of the film and as is tradition i'm writing my review of the film the day of it's digital release that doesn't mean it'll be posted everywhere on the same day tho and so here is my review of the film version of Batman: Hush.

The plot of the movie is a mysterious criminal known as Hush is determined to destroy both the crime fighting career and personal life of Batman which has already been complicated by a relationship with Catwoman. In terms of what I thought of the story it was very well told and well written but the makers of the movie make a key mistake which i'll get into later on this review since it's a spoiler.

Sadly this film is set in the DC Animated Movie Universe or DCAMU which sadly means we don't get Kevin Conroy as Batman or Mark Hamill as the joker. Instead starring in the film is Jason O'Mara as Bruce Wayne / Batman , Jennifer Morrison as Selina Kyle / Catwoman , Jerry O'Connell as Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman , Rebecca Romijn as Lois Lane , Maury Sterling as Thomas Elliot , Rainn Wilson as Lex Luthor , both Peyton Lists as Barbara Gordon / Batgirl and Pamela Isley / Poison Ivy and Geoffrey Arend as Edward Nigma / The Riddler.

I can't help but wonder how much more awesome this movie would have been if they had Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill reprising their roles as Batman and Joker. Don't get me wrong Jason is fine as Batman as is Jason Spisak as The Joker but they don't hold a candle to Kevin and Mark. The rest of the cast do a solid job voicing their respective characters but for this story solid is nowhere near good enough.

Now I cannot find who did the animation for this film which is rather odd because I usually can find it on the day of the digital release. I have to say that the animation in the film is in my opinion pretty freaking solid but given that DC always has good animation in their films that's really nothing new but I do feel that some scenes could have been animated better but that might be due to the lack to time they have to make these films.

I can very easily see alot of people being confused by the cast list so allow me to clear things up their are two actress with the exact same name Peyton List. The older list has played Ivy before on the show Gotham and has also done Mad Men and the younger List is mostly known for her work on the Disney Channel and I believe that this is her first time doing voice acting for a feature film since she has voice acted before in a crossover episode with Ultimate Spider-Man and her show Jessie.

SPOILERS START HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now unlike alot of comic adaptations that I review I have actually read the original book however i've not read it in years. So I had to do a quick read through of the Wikipedia page for the comic book and from what I read the film does stick to the plot of the book quite closely except in this film there's no Huntress of Killer Croc with Croc's role here filled by Bane for some unknown reason and there's no Ra's al Ghul either.

Now in the cast list I did actually make a small edit and that's because I didn't want to give away who Hush is. However since we are are in the spoiler section I can reveal that Hush is The Riddler in this film which to me is weird because just based of what I read The Riddler wasn't Hush but was the mastermind behind the whole thing with Hush being Thomas Elliot and I have no idea why they made that change at all for the film.

The mistake that I mentioned earlier on in the review is that for a large portion of the film's running time we're ahead of Batman in terms of what he knows. Which isn't how you create a good mystery which is what a good Batman film should do we should be learning things as Batman does and not be several steps ahead of him yet tho for some reason this film thinks we need to be ahead of the character which only makes the character in my opinion pretty dumb.

It was great to see Batman take on pretty much all of his famous foes since it's something that's very rarely done in film. I do wish tho that even tho it was cool to see it happen that they had cut down on some of the fights or removed the ones that weren't relevant to the plot of the movie we didn't need to see Batman almost kill the joker you could have cut that scene of early and it would have served the same purpose in my opinion.

Now if you know what happens in the current Batman comics and have seen this film then you'll know why I put this image here. Since for some reason instead of focusing on the actual mystery of who Hush is and giving us clues the film makers instead choose to put more focus on the relationship between Batman and Catwoman where like in the comic book they become a couple and while that's not a bad idea in theory I feel that it could have been handled much better like for example why not have them share the odd look or to because it really does come out nowhere at least in this film it does.

Now I was going to end the spoilers part of the review with the Batman and Catwoman relationship but I realised that the above picture might be considered a spoiler. So that means we have to talk about some of the fan service we get in this film because we get a scene that will send fourteen year old minds ablaze with Catwoman and Poison Ivy kissing and it's pretty awesome I mean it adds nothing to the story and is forgotten about but still it's awesome to see it.

SPOILERS END HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is some action in this movie as you'd expect from a Batman movie and as you'd expect alot of it is just seeing who can hit who the hardest. Which by now is something that i've come to expect from these movies but I do like the fact that we do get to see Batman use more of his gadgets during those scenes since it does keep them from being boring and repetitive and boring but like I said when talking about some certain scenes they go on for a little to long in my opinion.

Overall this was a decent watch and it was a good adaptation of the original story but missed casting opportunity's aside it does feel rather long which is a shame because the film is only just over an hour and twenty minuets long and so the film gets a 7.5 out of 10 from me and if you've been following Comic-Con news then you'll know why i've put the cover for Superman: Red Son as a picture let's just say 2020 is going to be a hell of a year for DC animated movies.