 All right guys, Milio's back after two year hiatus, so we've finally teamed up once again. Yeah. And we're talking about a movie that I actually really don't like. Ooh, that's a hot mug, guys. We're talking about Batman Ninja. If you guys also want to watch kind of a live stream of us watching this and kind of just talking about it, Milio will have a video on his channel talking about it. We did the same thing for the Digimon video and it was really, really funny. He did a great job editing it, so it's going to be a good one for this one too. Also, this is by the way the guy who I was helping push for his charity stream when you passed your goal, which is really awesome. So for those of you who did join on his channel, thank you. Absolutely, thank you. We'll be doing another charity stream next year and thank you guys for everyone who's hopped over. Say hi. No, that was really awesome. But now what's not awesome is this movie. This movie's kind of terrible. I wanted to like it. And that's like the kind of general consensus I've gotten from some people who are anime fans who have watched this film. There's definitely an artistic style that is enjoyable to watch. You like the textures, the kind of the melding of 2D and 3D animation. Absolutely, the backgrounds and the color theory that's involved in it. And the changing style too. Yeah, the style, the line art changes dramatically at different parts in the film and that part, super cool. And there's a lot of kind of homage to different styles from different shows. And they definitely have a budget, so you can see that there's a lot of good quality mostly throughout the film. There are dips here and there, obviously, with any sort of production like this. But for the most part, it's very, very consistent because everything else isn't. The narrative is completely all over the place. The characters are just there, more so as placeholders, to say that it's a Batman movie. The nature of what the film's supposed to be is completely inconsistent because it starts off in Field of Japan and within maybe about 10 minutes, it throws that out the window and it starts going into weird mechazoid power rangers realm. And you would think that's fun. When the whole film is building certain things up and then moving on to something else at a dramatic pace, it feels like a different film almost every 10 minutes and it never has anything that really drives you into the next bit. So it's nothing connecting. This really will have worked kind of, it makes me think of the anime that Halo did. Oh yeah. Legends, it was all different stories. That's what this should have been. There's a few, particularly the two stories that I would say is maybe the very beginning without the whole stupid robot castle thing that Joker has. When he first arrived in Japan, that had been cool. The one where Joker is visited by Red Hood and he apparently lost his memory when in reality he actually hypnotized himself to forget who he was but then made a plant that would remind him of who he was so he could fool people. Yes. Without that whole connotation on the end, the idea of Harley Quinn and Joker trying to like who've forgotten who they are and they're trying to make amends but they're still being punished for what they did, that was cool. Also because the animation was very unique. Yeah, that part was definitely stood out. Yeah, it was cool. It was very different. But then literally right as it ends, right as Batman's like, yeah, they're okay, they immediately go bad and what was the point of that? And that's a lot of this movie is what's the point of this? What's the point of that? Nothing is consistent. There's just things and things and things and things. Things are constantly happening and one thing that I did notice and to definitely pinpoint what you were mentioning there is every time there was an expectation for something, it just flipped it on its head just to do that. Felt like, oh, okay, like something's- Not even from work, narratively. Joker, Harley, they seem to have changed or something up with them, even if they're using that as a plot device to then later trick you and be like, oh, okay, it was part of their ploy. They really didn't develop that any further than, you know, about what was that section, like three minutes, four minutes and then, oh, twist, okay, all right. It's constantly throwing twists at you and when it does that, it just makes you like, okay, yeah, there's gonna be another twist. The whole idea of feudal Japan is tossed out the window so early on because it literally turns into giant robots fighting each other and then Batman gets a giant monkey slash bat human anamorph robot thing. Which the monkey collective- The monkey collective was cool. Yeah, that was cool. Like, there's these tiny little things that are like, oh, that's interesting. Oh, that's cool. But this film is so weird and so non-consistent that you can't even really enjoy it for its bad because there's a lot of pauses. Even though this movie is only an hour and 25 minutes, it feels like three hours. Yeah, it's so it's dull in a lot of parts, too, considering how ridiculous it is. It has like a fast and furious effect if I were to make like, especially the latter films, it's so ridiculous that you just become nullified to it. Yeah, just numb. It's because it just constantly just keeps your head spinning with everything that's going on. Like, okay, sure, I'll take it. The only emotional connection you have is with two little tiny cute monkeys. I would agree. Yeah, those things, they're there just because they're cute little monkeys. Right. You don't even feel the relationship between Robin and the monkey. You're like, I could give a shit about Robin. Yeah, I lose them. Give me this monkey. I feel that they literally gave all creative control to the writers and the directors and the animation team, which cool. That's nice to see, especially like no interference when DC isn't interfering in a film of theirs. That's a rare occasion. I feel that maybe that wasn't the best choice because it just, it's just bananas. It required a little more connective tissue to really bring it into like, it didn't feel like a feature. It felt like bits. Yeah, it's like putting different pieces of a jigsaw puzzle from different puzzles together into one. And it's crazy to think too that the cast is so stacked, at least for the English dub. I've seen both versions, to be honest. I don't care for either one, but at least with the English one, I'm not, like, I'm not having to put any more effort into the film than it's already requesting of me. Yeah. And I thought there were some cool voices, like it's cool to see. Yeah, Harley committed, Tara Strong. Tara Strong. The guy who plays Batman at CEO Auditore. He's not too bad. The gentleman, Tom Hame, Tom Hame. Tom Kenny. Tom Kenny is Penguin. Yeah. There's Tom Handel or whoever his name is, who voices Tom Hale, Tony Hale. He voices Joker. He's clearly having fun. Yeah. And it feels like they did what they could with it, you know? It feels like they, they, they read the lines, they put in, you know. And they're doing purposely bad dubs, maybe? And they're not, not in the voice work, but more so the dialogue. Like those old Godzilla movies, you watch the dubs in some of the English dialogue is just stupid. Yeah. And some of that is the same this one. Like, what would Catwoman say when she was going to fight Harley? I was like, yeah, how about some girl on girl action? Girl on girl action. All right, we're just spelling it out. Mm-hmm. I can say I've watched it, but that's it. That's the extent of what I would say I enjoy about the film is that I've watched it. It looks cool, but I couldn't ever bring myself to watch it again to watch it again with you two years later. That was a test. Still a chore. Oh yeah, when we were in the first 20 minutes, I'm like, yeah, nope. I was not wrong the first time when I watched this. Honestly, I agree. Like at first, yeah, about 20 minutes in I was like, okay, is when it started to really lose me for what it was visually, kind of disappointing, because it's like it could have been something of substance and something that was really cool and unique and a unique take on Batman. But I mean, visually it was story wise. It was a little doesn't sink. It's just very, very disappointing. That's why for my rating, I would give this film a two out of seven. You got some nice visuals, the voice acting's not bad, but that's it. Like no redeemable, like in terms of rewatchability in this film for me. If you were to do my silly system, what would you give it? I guess I would. I'd probably air just a little bit more because I feel like I would have a little bit of fun with it while intoxicated or showing another friend and just appreciating the art because I'm super into that, all the different kinds of styles with it. But at the same time, it would be a little bit of a chore. It would be like watching, I don't know if you've done a review of it, but like the Death Note movie, because I love the original substance, the original- Like the source material? Yeah, source material, sorry. Oh, you were talking about the Netflix one? The Netflix one. I've watched it a few times and I hate to watch it. It's a good time on the rare occasion. So what number would you give it? Oh, a three out of seven. Okay, that's what I figured. It's certainly not great, but yeah. Well, anyways guys, thank you for watching this review. I hope you enjoyed the video. Like I said, Emilio will have a stream, a quick edit reaction video of us watching the film. There's like cut out a lot of the parts of us just like this. We suffered so that you didn't have to. Also, make sure to check out his channel. I'll have a link for his channel at the end of this video as well in the description below. We'll along with link for that video as well. Sweet, thank you. So, thank you guys for watching. I hope you enjoyed it and all. We'll see you guys next time. Yeah, thanks for having me on here. No problem, man. Later.