I remember as a kid when the movies for BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES would come out. That show though, was before my time. I watched STATIC SHOCK and JUSTICE LEAGE instead (even though I had a couple toys when I was younger). In those series, Batman is so much colder than he is here. Whenever I watched them I was always like “I can’t se Bruce Wayne being a good dude.” Here he is much much softer. What I liked about this is that we get to see a Batman origin story that is fresh and doesn’t show the damn murder alley scene. I thought the Joker being involved with the story was a waste. They didn’t need to lean on it — although Mark Hamill’s Joker is always a delight — as the Phantasm could have easily been the sole villain. Another great thing to marvel at is the gothic art deco style of the Gotham City. It reminds me when I would go into New York City as a little kid back in the 90s.
