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Originally Posted by roshiq

Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)

The late 80s original graphic novel was one of the most fan favorite & talked about Batman-Joker stories to the comic book lovers. It was dark, disturbing & brilliantly written that wonderfully explores Joker's philosophy of being an evil & unpredictable bad guy character where all the way down he viciously tries to prove his point - 'one bad day is enough to turn a regular good man into a very bad one'. So it was an exciting news for the fans like me when WB & DC animation announced that they were going to adapt it with most popular & beloved voice actors like Kevin Conroy & Mark Hamill reprising their respective iconic voice roles of Bruce Wayne/Batman and the Joker. Over the years, WB has produced some great DC Animated films along with few weak entries but I think most of the fans were granted for sure that THE KILLING JOKE is going to be one of the best animated films ever made (along with Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, Batman: Under the Red Hood or The Dark Knight Returns). But guess what...it actually turned out one of the worst DC adaptations that they have done so far! If I even overlook or forget about the unnecessary & lame prologue of Batgirl that consumes the first 30 minutes of this film, it still remains a lifeless, dull & disjoint animated feature. The problem was everywhere! First of all, the animation work; it terribly fails to connect with the thought-provoking & emotional dramatic contents of the story & most notably Joker's some of the greatest lines in comic book history, even at times Batman kinda walks or moves like a Robot! The film also heavily lacks proper background scores & sound in most of the scenes that I think also contributed to make it felt like a dull animated feature. It just jumps from this scene to that scene and than it ends. I know it's unbelievable but surprisingly Kevin Conroy's voice work also sounded like he wasn't somehow ready or wanted to play his part this time!

You can find a motion comic video in youtube about this same Killing Joke story and believe me...those guys even done it in a far better & convincing way; sad to say this but it seems WB should have taken some notes from them about how to adapt this challenging tale into an animation.

I read a review of it that made it to out to be very disappointing. I do not read comics except graphic novels/collections of comics in a single volume so I can't really say much about it. The article is here if you feel like giving an opinion:

http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-killing-j...its-1784176711