Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is a two-part, direct-to-video superhero animation film, an adaptation of the 1986 comic book The Dark Knight Returns Frank Miller. It was directed by Jay Oliva, who works as a storyboard artist at Man of Steel , Under Red Hood First Year and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice . Several other Batman veterans are also involved in the film. Part 1 was released September 25, 2012, and Part 2 was released January 29, 2013. The deluxe edition combines the two films was released on October 8, 2013. This is the 15th movie in the DC Universe Animated Original Movie series.
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Plot
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After his protagonist's death © Jason Todd, billionaire industrialist Bruce Wayne was forced to retire from his Batman persona. Ten years later, Gotham City is flooded with crime and terrorized by gangs known as Mutants. 55-year-old Wayne maintains a friendship with 70-year-old Police Commissioner James Gordon (who knows Wayne is Batman), while Joker (Batman's arch rivals) has been a catatonic at Arkham Asylum since Wayne retired. Arkham prisoner and former Harvey Dent district attorney underwent plastic surgery to repair her damaged face. Though he was declared sane, he soon hid after being released. Losing Dent, news about crime epidemics all over the city and memories of his parents' death made Wayne into Batman once again. He fought serious crime, rescuing Carrie Kelley, 13 years old, but now struggling with age-limited physical limitations.
The public reaction to his return is divided. Psychologist Dent Bartholomew Wolper blamed Batman for creating his own robbery gallery. Dent reappears, threatening to blow up a building unless he is paid a ransom. Batman defeats Dent's henchmen, knowing that the bomb will explode even if a ransom is paid; he realizes that Dent intends to commit suicide. Batman disables one bomb, and the other blows up harmlessly. He defeats Dent, who reveals that he thinks the reconstruction operation is failing, as he considers his half-damaged body as defective. Kelley dresses as Robin and searches for Batman, who attacks the mutant collection with a tank-like Batmobile (paralyzes most of them). The Mutant leader challenges Batman to a duel. He accepts to prove to himself that he can win. The Mutant leader (who was in his prime) almost killed Batman, but Kelley turned his attention long enough for Batman to subdue him. Leaders and many gang members were arrested. Injured, Batman returns to Batcave with Kelley, and allows him to become his protà © à © gà ©  © e despite his protest from his butler, Alfred Pennyworth.
Batman has Kelley disguising himself as a Mutant, and he lured the gang into a sewer on the West River. At the Gotham City Police Department, Mutant leaders killed the mayor during the negotiations. Commissioner Gordon deliberately frees the leader, providing a way out of the building, which leads to a sewer. Before the Mutants were overgrown, Batman fought the leader in a mud pit; mud slows down the leader, eliminates his physical gain, and Batman defeats him. Seeing their leader's defeat, Mutants divided into smaller gangs; one being the "Sons of Batman", a violent vigilante. Batman's victory became public and the townspeople were inspired to fight crime. Gordon retired after meeting his anti-Batman successor, Ellen Yindel. In Arkham, a televised report on Batman takes the Joker out of its catholic state.
Part 2
Pretending to be sorry for his past, Joker convinces Wolper to take him on a talk show to tell his story, and make plans for him to escape with an old henchman, who gave her a lipstick that controls the mind. Meanwhile, Superman, who works as a government operator as an exchange to be allowed to secretly help people, was asked by President Ronald Reagan to end Batman's vigilante activities. Framing this event is the growing hostility between the US and the Soviet Union over the possession of the island of Corto Maltese. As Batman's continued presence embarrasses national authority, Yindel becomes commissioner and arrest command of Batman, and Superman warns Batman that the government will not tolerate him any longer.
Joker made his talk show appearance on David Endochrine show when Batman fought with GCPD on the roof of the studio; while they fight, Joker kills Wolper, gas everyone in the studio to death and run away. She found Selina Kyle and used one of her bodyguards and lipstick to control congressional representatives, who called for a nuclear strike in the Soviets before falling to her death. The Batman investigation led him to Selina, whom he found bound and dressed like a Wonder Woman. Kelley saw cotton candy on the floor, and Batman concluded that Joker was at the exhibition grounds. There, Kelley accidentally kills the Joker's arms while Batman chases the Joker, who indiscriminately shoot down dozens of people. As Batman's corner Joker is injured and partly blinded, he claims to feel responsible for every assassination the Joker has committed and intends to stop it permanently. In the ensuing battle, Joker stabs Batman repeatedly, and Batman breaks the Joker's neck in front of the witness.
The content he created Batman lost control and that he would be branded as a killer, Joker finished twisting his neck, killing himself. The GCPD arrives and Batman, bleeding profusely, fights his way to Kelley and escapes. After Superman fended off a Soviet nuclear missile, he was hit with an explosion and badly wounded; detonation creates an electromagnetic pulse that removes all electrical equipment in the United States and causes nuclear winter. When the city descends into chaos, Batman, Kelley and Gordon raise Sons of Batman and Gotham citizens to restore order, and Yindel accepts that Batman has become too powerful to descend. While the rest of the powerless Americans are flooded with evil, Gotham becomes the safest city in America, embarrassing the presidential government and encouraging them to send Superman and troops to finally stop Batman. Batman and Superman agree to meet at Crime Alley.
Superman can not help but feel sorry for ignoring Batman for years, and humbly asking him not to go through the fight. Wearing a strong exoframe and supported by Kelley and former superhero Oliver Queen (Green Arrow), Batman fights Superman, using various tactics to make the fight though. When Superman gets the benefit, the Queen strikes him with an arrow made with a synthetic Kryptonite, greatly weakening it. Batman defeats Superman, and claims that he deliberately makes Kryptonite weak, and tells Superman to never forget that Batman beat him, and can kill him if he wants it. Superman then realizes Batman's heartbeat is irregular and fast with x-ray eyesight, and tries to warn him. Batman ignores Superman and keeps on beating him, citing his reasons for getting mad at him. However, Batman apparently died of a heart attack, while Wayne Manor was self-destructive, and Alfred died of a stroke. Superman holds Batman's body, ordering the soldiers to retreat.
After that event, the world learns that Bruce is Batman; all his secrets were destroyed with his manor and his finances gone. When Superman abandoned Wayne's funeral, he gave Kelley a blink of an eye after hearing the faint heartbeat coming from Bruce's coffin. In the underground caves, Bruce is revealed to have survived his heart attack and falsified his death to make preparations to continue his mission more secretly, allied with Kelley, Queen, and his followers.
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Cast
- Introduced in Section 1 Peter Weller as Bruce Wayne/Batman
- Introduced in Section 2 Mark Valley as Clark Kent/Superman
Music
Christopher Drake, a veteran DC Animated Universe composer, prints two parts of the film. The deluxe two deluxe soundtrack was released on October 8, 2013, to coincide with the deluxe version of the film.
Track list
All music composed by Christopher Drake.
Reception
Rotten Tomatoes gives Part 1 a 100% score based on reviews of 5 criticisms and Part 2 score of 94% based on reviews from 3 critics.
IGN's Nikhil Umraskar's reviewers gave Part 1 a score of 7.5 out of 10, praising the sound show and animation. Esposito noted that the broadcasters segment did not translate well to the screen and did not have the thematic blows they had in comics, making them foreign at best. He also criticized Batman's inner monologue and the poor quality of extra DVDs. Esposito went on to give Part 2 a score of 8.6 out of 10, praising Michael Emerson's portrayal of the Joker, as well as an extra increase in Blu-ray. Gil Kellerman of Collider.com praised Part 1 as a whole, praising Weller's portrayal of Batman but also downgrading additional DVDs. Spencer Perry at SuperHeroHype regards Part 1 as "one of the best Batman movies ever made", scoring it nine out of ten. Noel Murray from The A.V. Club gives Part 1 a B value, saying that "there are ways in which the Dark Knight Returns animation gets Miller's vision better than comic pages." Kofi Outlaw of ScreenRant gave Part Three of five stars, criticized the outdated Cold War subplot as "the main annoyance of focused narration", as well as toning down the Joker character.
Part 1 received a Golden Reel Awards nomination for Best Sound Editing in Live Animation to Video.
References
External links
- Batman: Dark Knight Back, Part 1 on IMDb
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 on IMDb
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