Batman: Under the Red Hood

[The Serge]

Has anyone seen this? It's the latest release for the DC Animated Universe and, for my money, it's the best release to date. Some great representations of many major Batman characters and a very good distillation of Judd Winicks Under the Red Hood story line.

 

[frankthedm]

It was good.

 

[megamania]

It was very good. Certainly as good as Crisis of Two earths, New Frontier and First Flight.

Curious about the Darkseid story that comes out this fall.

 

[garrowolf]

I thought that it was very good.

I didn't like New Frontier

I am also curious about the Superman/Batman Apocalypse movie.

 

[megamania]

I relieze Marvel is concentrating on the live action / CGI movies but I do wish they did more with the animation like DC.

So many stories that would be worthy.

Spider-man's "Last Hunt" , the Juggernaut story even.

New Avengers origin

Thor- Beta Ray Bill


Any other stories?

 

[Ahzad]

I liked it quite a bit even though I'm not a big Batman fan. That being said though I loved the Jonah Hex short on it. I've found myself enjoying the shorts more than the features on these dvds.

 

[CrimsonReaver]

Going in, I was bitterly hostile toward the fact that they didn't use Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill (and I would have liked David Warner to reprise his role as Ra's al Ghul, but wouldn't have been as annoyed with someone else taking it on). However, in this instance, it didn't prevent me from enjoying the movie and I thought it was really good. Probably the best of the bunch so far, in my opinion, followed by First Flight and Crisis on Two Earths. I absolutely loathed New Frontier.

I echo the sentiment that Marvel should really be putting forth the same effort to release high-quality animated features, preferably with their major names but even with those lesser known/underappreciated characters they may never make live-action movies with.

 

[Initiate]

I really enjoyed Under the Red Hood. I thought it was going to be terrible, as many animated shows I've seen in recent years have been. I was pleasantly surprised by how well done it was.

 

[Jack7]

It was extremely well done.

Though I liked the books better because of the ID mystery on the perp.

Personally I think that theme is the best one ever presented by a Batman book. And I've never understood that about the Batman. Of course, to be honest, I also never understood why the Hood didn't just present a corpse to Batman instead of going through all of the melodrama of trying to get him to do it. Batman is obviously as insane in his own way as Joker is for not long ago doing it. So that was a dead end street before the kid ever turned down it.

The kid should have known that and fixed it himself.

It would have been simple, effective, fast, and solved the problem.

 

[megamania]

I just found out that Marvel is releasing Astonishing X-Men (first story arc) in animated form this September.