Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (SPOILERS)

[Ferret]

I've seen the uncut version twice, I didn't even know about the cut one untill now. Both were on early (nine in the morning), and didn't seem overly gorey....

I did like it though. It was sick, what the joker did to tim, but the ending rocked. I can't remember it well enough to pick out detail, but it was good.

 

[Alzrius]

I was recently speaking to my brother (a much bigger Batman fan than I), and was surprised to find that he didn't hold the movie in nearly as high regard as I did.

For him, it was more a problem with Batman Beyond as a whole. He thinks Batman is a cool superhero because of how realistic he seems. The idea of how there was a hyena-man in the movie, that the Joker had created some chip that allowed his consciousness to survive (not to mention alter Tim Drake's body), and the entire use of a laser-spitting satellite, to be so sci-fi that it ruined the element he liked most.

Personally, I liked the movie a lot, and found those elements not to detract from it in the slightest, but to each their own.

 

[Sorrow The Man Bear]

Definitely some of the best animated Batman. I was greatly dismayed when the series got canceled. I loved the interactions between Bruce and Terry, the passing the mantle and the ever present mentor and whatnot. And possibly my favourite part of the series was the cave. All the old stuff from the series (giant coin, the tyrannosaur robot, etc) and a slew of items from the comics (shots of the shadow of the Azreal costume in the back for one) and other things that could have happened inbetween Now and Then (I know there's a wall in the back that has a bunch of the signature gear from his Rogue's Gallery, ie. Freeze Gun, the Riddle's Cane, and so on).

Props must be given to Dr. Leslie Thompkins. I can't begin to imagine how hard it would be to reverse what the Joker did to Tim Drake.

Well, we found out during the Knightfall arc that Les Thomkins actually has a super-powered healing ability, Laying on Hands style. I mean, hell Bruce went back to being the Bat.

 

[Klaus]

During Knightfall Bruce was healed by another woman, of (iirc) Indian descent, not Dr. Thompkins.