It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Don't Believe the Hype

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

... review please, let me ask you something respectfully!: What do I have to do to get to watch more of these remarkable cartoons?!?! Shall I donate? You need a lucky mug in the studio? Write a permission? Whatever needs to be done consider it done! Because I just love these fantastic stories! The music, the art direction, the characters, the cast, everything was just great! And for a certain level I enjoyed it more than the movies! Don't get me wrong! I love the movies as well! The Burton ones, the Nolan ones are fantastic! (Let's just not talk about the Schumacher ones already!) These titles belong to these directors. It is their vision. This one is very creative as well, but this one is the real BATMAN! The movie is not flawless though. Of course sometimes they do simple things, and there is no problem, I mean it is a cartoon, so they can get away with it! But one thing is for sure: Warner Bros. has realised that there are two groups of Batman fans out there, and one of these groups is all grown ups now! This cartoon is for them! I definitely wouldn't watch it with my child - there is blood. A lot of blood. - but for us it is like reading a comic book! They both come to life before our eyes. I was waiting for this one and I was very happy to see it eventually! So if anybody would read this from the fantastic team of creators of this great tale: Please make more! You got one definitive fan! And I'm sure that I'm not alone! :D

This movie is very very good. From starting to end this movie was just great. All the characters in the movie were looking awesome. Story was also great. Everything just bound me to watch the movie till the end. This is in my top 10 best animated movies list of DC.

This is, far and away, the best animated Batman film...but is it also the best Batman film PERIOD? It's bittersweet, funny, emotional, thematically rich, and morally complex; and that final scene in the abandoned apartment is intensely dramatic perfection. Such a bold way to end a superhero film...no explosions, little action, just incredible dialogue and wonderful characters.

The score is haunting, and right on tone with the film. The voice actors do wonderful jobs of sounding just familiar enough, compared to the animated series voices we know so well, while staying true to the fact that is a different continuity than the DCAU we are familiar with. All of them are top notch and true to their characters, so great job (as always) Andrea Romano on casting the right people. The animation is similar to the animated series, but again has it's own take and twist on this otherwise familiar landscape. The fight choreography in this one is UNPARALLELED, more true to life than anything I have seen before in the animated films or series, and watching Batman and Nightwing fight side by side with such ease is thrilling, to say the least. The story is so moving, with one of the saddest endings really that I have ever seen in a Batman film, and the actors do such a great job of imbuing Judd Winick's words in the comics with power and life here. The only reason I am giving this 9 instead of a 10 is because the movie needed to be longer and more emphasis placed on who Jason Todd is near the beginning of the movie so that you get the impact you are supposed to early on. People unfamiliar with his character have been (when I showed them this movie)confused by it, and have asked me, "Why did Batman just call him Jason? I thought his name was Dick Grayson." I'm not sure who made the decision to open on the action sequence as they did; as fun as it to jump right into the action like that, taking 10 extra minutes at the beginning to give some setup would have made more sense. People familiar with the animated series expect to see Tim Drake as Robin II, and people familiar with the comics already know the outcome of this story, even if they have not read the Red Hood books, so all the dramatic surprises are basically ruined. Without the setup at the beginning to tell you who Jason Todd is and how he came into the job, it can confuse the uninitiated. Otherwise, it's a fantastic film.