Batman: The Killing Joke

“The madness begins.”

6.6

2016

1h 17m

AnimationActionCrimeDrama

Director: Sam Liu

Overview

As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his own fall into madness.

Trailer

Official Trailer Official

Cast

Batman (voice)

Kevin Conroy

Batman (voice)

The Joker (voice)

Mark Hamill

The Joker (voice)

Barbara Gordon / Batgirl (voice)

Tara Strong

Barbara Gordon / Batgirl (voice)

Commissioner Gordon (voice)

Ray Wise

Commissioner Gordon (voice)

Francesco (voice)

John DiMaggio

Francesco (voice)

Detective Bullock (voice)

Robin Atkin Downes

Detective Bullock (voice)

Alfred (voice)

Brian George

Alfred (voice)

Reese (voice)

JP Karliak

Reese (voice)

Murray (voice)

Andrew Kishino

Murray (voice)

Mitch (voice)

Nolan North

Mitch (voice)

Paris (voice)

Maury Sterling

Paris (voice)

Carny Owner (voice)

Fred Tatasciore

Carny Owner (voice)

Reviews

Austin Singleton

Not even the voice acting could save this movie. Check out my full review here. http://www.hweird1reviews.com/allreviews/the-killing-joke-movie-review

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Gimly

Shares the few weaknesses of the short comic it is based on, but adds a bunch of its own new weaknesses to try and get it up to a theatrical runtime and justify its cinema release. I think part of the reason the reception for _The Killing Joke_ has been so overwhelmingly negative is that the expectations were so high going in. But that wasn't without cause. It sees the long awaited return of both Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill to their famed DC roles, and the comic it's based on is widely regarded as one of the better stories ever published by the company. And of these lofty expectations, _The Killing Joke_ falls short. Hamill is great, and Kevin Conroy usually is as well. There are a couple of occasions that the latter slipped though. I don't know if he's rusty or just didn't care, but his voice performance is not 100%. The story essentially meets that of its source material, but rather than expand the existing story, they chose to awkwardly force an entirely different one in beforehand, to the point that this is essentially two episodes of two different shows, rather than a single cohesive movie. _The Killing Joke_ is a little gross and is not the return to form for DC Animation that we all had hoped it would be, but the final sequence is fantastic and I don't know that the movie overall deserves quite as much vitriol as it has had. _Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._

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Peter89Spencer

The first 30 minutes was wasted with Barbara being so annoying! I just didn't see why that whole bit was thrown in when the movie itself is meant to center on the Joker. Even with Mark Hamill's final bow out as the iconic villain couldn't save the film. Still, at least that joke at the end was a little amusing! Other than that, they could've done better with the story.

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