[9.3/10] What a blast this one was! There is always a little jolt to any episode that features a villain team-up, and this one is the team-up to end all team-ups. Seeing the likes of Joker, Two-Face, Harley, Ivy, Killer Croc, The Ventriloquist, The Mad Hatter, The Scarecrow, The Riddler, and more interacting and collaborating to take down The Bat is an unmitigated treat. Just seeing Joker’s casual disregard for Croc or Harley welcoming Ivy once more is a hoot.
But this episode isn’t just fan service, nor is it just coasting on the coolness of the bad guy reunion. It’s a story with a point -- namely an exploration of whether or not Batman’s colorful rogues gallery is his own fault. There’s a really fun premise to the baddie not just trying to get back at Batman, but to put on a show, put him on trial, before they take him out and go back to their lives of crime. It’s just the sort of madness that, in a roundabout way, helps prove their point.
I also like that we have a new character who’s the focal point of that question. Janet Van Dorn really works as the fulcrum of the episode, someone who starts out believing that Batman is just as bad as the villains he fights (and maybe even the cause of them), but who comes to see that these villains made their own messes, and that Batman isn’t to blame. Giving her a legitimate character arc really helps give the episode a structure.
It’s cool to see her dressing down and pushing the buttons of so many villains. Her taking Mad Hatter to task for being a creep, tweaking Harley by pointing out Joker’s lack of loyalty, and prodding Ivy about everyone else’s casual disregard for the sanctity of plant life establishes her as sharp and effective. Her speech about seeing how all these bad guys forged their own paths, and that they’d all be up to something regardless of Batman (albeit with different gimmicks) works as a nice retort to the “Batman makes his own enemies” theme that floats around in the metatext and criticism of a lot of Batman stories.
But what follows is pretty damn good too! I love the fact that the villains basically admit that she’s right, but that if they’re so bad, they’re just going to waste her and Batman anyway. There’s a lot of cool visual moments in what ensues. The lighting and color when Van Dorn batarangs out the light just as the baddies are about to unmask our hero (a tense moment!) are superb. The little bits of red and orange lighting amid a black background look really cool. And the pendulous fight between Batman and Joker is suspenseful and climactic as well.
It also ends with a nice bit of detente. Not only does Commissioner Gordon and his crew get the criminals back in line (after some of the usual enjoyable Batman fisticfuffs). But Van Dorn and Batman see eye-to-eye, recognizing that The Bat is a force for good in Gotham, but that they’re both working toward a day when he’s no longer needed.
Overall, this one manages to balance the coolness of the villain team-up, dramatize the interesting theme of whether Batman is the cause of his own rogues gallery, and throw in some outstanding action and character work to boot. Quite a feat!
This movie was so bad, I didn't find even one aspect of the movie as good. Of course, there are a few moments that actually work as horror but all the other parts of the movie ruin your experience.
The movie stars so bad (soooooooo f***ing bad), especially the overused makeup, and then you realize it's a nightmare. But you don't know if it really happened two years ago or it just pure imagination (if you consider the original franchise you can guess it was Laurie's imagination but Rob Zombie changed a lot of information about the story throughout the whole story, so you still know nothing).
You know I can overlook Rob Zombie not taking what happened at the original franchise as facts, but I can't overlook when he just ignores what happened in the previous film in the new franchise (it happened also in the original franchise but at the original franchise every movie was directed by another director and not by the fucking same).
The previous movie in the new franchise was very good and interesting to new viewers and old viewers both because it didn't change anything about the story, it just added information and it didn't base on another movie+changes. Also, the amazing theme song that Jon Carpenter wrote so perfectly wasn't used in this movie.
Now let's talk about Michael, both in the original franchise and in the previous movie in the new franchise adult Michael Myers has never walked with out a mask intentionally, also in the previous movie from the new franchise Michael used homemade masks and there's no explanation why he uses (the one time he actually wears a mask) the old mask from the original franchise. Oh and also why the fuck did Rob Zombie make Michael look like a hobo?
I usually don't write comments but this movie was so bad and it annoyed me so much that I had to, by the way, it's the only movie so far that I rated 1/10.
