5.8
Batman, along with many of his allies and adversaries, finds himself transported to feudal Japan by Gorilla Grodd's time displacement machine.
Koichi Yamadera
Batman / Bruce Wayne (voice)
Wataru Takagi
The Joker (voice)
Rie Kugimiya
Harley Quinn / Harleen Quinzel (voice)
Ai Kakuma
Catwoman / Selina Kyle (voice)
Hochu Otsuka
Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
Daisuke Ono
Nightwing / Dick Grayson (voice)
Akira Ishida
Red Hood / Jason Todd (voice)
Kengo Kawanishi
Red Robin / Tim Drake (voice)
Yuki Kaji
Robin / Damian Wayne (voice)
Junichi Suwabe
Deathstroke / Slade Wilson (voice)
Cho
The Penguin / Oswald Cobblepot (voice)
Takehito Koyasu
Gorilla Grodd (voice)
Toshiyuki Morikawa
Two-Face / Harvey Dent (voice)
Atsuko Tanaka
Poison Ivy / Pamela Isley (voice)
Kenta Miyake
Bane (voice)
Anna Mugiho
Monkichi (voice)
Juri Nagatsuma
Monmi (voice)
Director
Jumpei Mizusaki
Characters
Bob Kane
Characters
Bruce Timm
Characters
Marv Wolfman
Characters
Bill Finger
Characters
Paul Dini
Characters
Doug Moench
Characters
George Pérez
Characters
Chuck Dixon
Characters
Graham Nolan
Writer
Kazuki Nakashima
October 4, 2018
2
Okay, so I'm about to totally rail on _Batman Ninja_, but before I do that, I wanted to open it up with the following disclaimer: I thought multiple times throughout watching this "I wonder if this could be the sort of thing that's fun if you watched it in a group setting?". Personally, I watched it by myself, on a bad day, bedridden, feeling very, very unwell. And that's the experience I'm reviewing.
Movies don't have to be grounded to be good. They don't have to be be standardised to be good. They don't even have to make sense to be good. Sometimes a movie is just silly fun and everything else is moot. But most of the time, the better a movie is (ie. The more you as the individual viewer are appreciating your experience) the more nonsense you are willing to forgive. It's easier to suspend disbelief, even a great big fat disbelief, if everything else in the movie is working. If not everything is working, but you're only called upon to accept a small amount of ridiculousness, then that will generally fly. But in some movies... In some movies, there is absolutely nothing that is working, and yet those same movies will ask you for the biggest, fattest suspension of disbelief of them all. _Batman Ninja_, is one of **those** movies.
I could probably pick any one aspect I disliked about _Batman Ninja_ and write a full length review based on that single issue, but I generally try to keep these things pretty short, so rather than get into the plot, the deviation from source, the character choices, the dubbing, the animation style, the sexism, the science, the lapses in logic, the design choices, the dialogue, the nonsense, the inconsistencies within its own defined setting, the fact I was so bored at one point I literally fell asleep, or any number of the problems I've either blocked out or to list would require spoilers, I'll skip over all of that and simply say: This is the worst Batman movie I've ever seen.
_Final rating:★ - Of no value. Avoid at all costs._