The Dark Knight Returns: Part 1
This is an animated movie based on a story written in the mid 80s by Frank Miller (the creator of the Sin City series). It tells you what happens in a future Gotham city years after Batman's retirement. None of Batman's enemies is operating either but a new threat has risen: hordes of young criminals calling themselves The Mutants are taking over Gotham just using their brutal ferocity and relentlessness.
Bruce Wayne has aged and is no longer the man he used to be, but something inside him beckons him, a call he cannot deny. Gotham City needs to be saved and Batman is still the only man who can do the job. Once again he dons his costume and little by little he begins his campaign to defeat the Mutants even inspiring others such as Carrey Kelley, a young girl, who Batman saves from a Mutant attack. In return Carrey becomes the new Robin and helps Batman in his fight even saving him from getting killed by the Mutant leader. Batman defeats the Mutants by beating their leader in a mud fight, soon after defeating one of his old adversaries, Harvey Dent, the disfigured villain known as Two Face. This villain had been physically cured but his mind was still fractured, something that Batman realizes after Harvey threatens Gotham with a bomb.
The story came in a moment when DC comics, the company that publishes Batman, needed to be revitalized, just the same as Batman. The character had become too soft, even campy, and needed urgently to come back to his roots and be the hero that he was meant to be: obssesed, restless, but also cold; blunt yet heroic.
More than twenty years later, DC is releasing the animated version of DK in two parts. The first part was released in September 2012 and the second in 2013. The one that is available next year tells the events after the Mutant leader is defeated. Batman is now considered a threat by the U.S. governmnt and so none other than Superman is sent to stop Batman. Their confrontation and Batman`s final showdown with a revitalized Joker are the ace of this cake. That and the drawing style which mimics Frank Miller's and the voices which are exceptional make of this film another excellent Batman related item.
Bruce Wayne has aged and is no longer the man he used to be, but something inside him beckons him, a call he cannot deny. Gotham City needs to be saved and Batman is still the only man who can do the job. Once again he dons his costume and little by little he begins his campaign to defeat the Mutants even inspiring others such as Carrey Kelley, a young girl, who Batman saves from a Mutant attack. In return Carrey becomes the new Robin and helps Batman in his fight even saving him from getting killed by the Mutant leader. Batman defeats the Mutants by beating their leader in a mud fight, soon after defeating one of his old adversaries, Harvey Dent, the disfigured villain known as Two Face. This villain had been physically cured but his mind was still fractured, something that Batman realizes after Harvey threatens Gotham with a bomb.
The story came in a moment when DC comics, the company that publishes Batman, needed to be revitalized, just the same as Batman. The character had become too soft, even campy, and needed urgently to come back to his roots and be the hero that he was meant to be: obssesed, restless, but also cold; blunt yet heroic.
More than twenty years later, DC is releasing the animated version of DK in two parts. The first part was released in September 2012 and the second in 2013. The one that is available next year tells the events after the Mutant leader is defeated. Batman is now considered a threat by the U.S. governmnt and so none other than Superman is sent to stop Batman. Their confrontation and Batman`s final showdown with a revitalized Joker are the ace of this cake. That and the drawing style which mimics Frank Miller's and the voices which are exceptional make of this film another excellent Batman related item.
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