What a beautiful movie!

Sorry, this movie sucks

Did you people see the same film I saw?

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

I am not too big on the DC/Marvel Universes nor am I really fond of the 'super-hero' genre although I do dabble from time to time if I'm in the mood...I found Gotham Knight to be rather a refreshing take on Batman and it kept my attention despite everything I mentioned above. It's a 6 story anthology collection, with each one varying in animation style and overall approach (although) loosely intertwined. I fully found them all to be engaging with the exception of the 3rd installment which I found to be the weakest link of the 6. I really appreciated the varying animation styles and the overall dark(ish) tone which I always find a positive, especially in dealing with these (DC/Marvel) universes which are generally too sugar-coated for my taste. So all in all I could imagine perhaps some hardcore fans not enjoying it too much (I'm not sure), but I fully enjoyed it and found it it a rather refreshing and interesting approach to a genre that has really beaten a dead horse.

Hit or miss, mostly miss. Because they decided to do a movie that's basically just a bunch of 11 minute episodes, there's no connection. Sure they all might tie together at the end, but the animation and quality differs from short to short. One might be really good, like "Deadshot", and another might be mediocre, like "Field Test". In order for movies like this to work, there has to be balance. Remember when Warner Brothers would release those Looney Tunes movies that were just a bunch of episodes crammed into one? That's what this movie is. The animation varies from bad rotoscoping, to hyper-realistic, and neither particularly look good. The stories vary from very good, to mediocre versions of episodes from the animated series. Quality over quantity, that's the lesson that can be learned from this.

I was pleasantly surprised by this little collection. Usually these kinds of films feel like their sole reason for existence is to earn the studio some money. Usually there's about one good short film in the bunch while the rest are thoughtless and not worth your time. Not so much in this case. This film has six short stories, all loosely tied together by the overall plot and the passage of time between The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises. None of these stories feel alike, though of course they vary in quality, both in terms of how they're put together and their story-telling merits. Thing is, none of them are bad. Sure some of them, like the first one, Have I Got a Story for You, are only average, but all of them are at least visually pleasing to look at and give their own takes on the character of Batman.And while some the stories are only average, a few of them are actually really good. Some for reasons of visual eye candy, like Crossfire and Deadshot, and some for reasons of good story, like Working Through Pain. Of course all of them are relatively short, so the stories are all pretty simple, which is why the visually great stories ended up being my favourites. Sometimes it's just nice to sit back and watch excellent action scenes take place. Deadshot especially excelled in this regard.And that's pretty much this movie. A certain fondness for Batman is absolutely required because, as I stated, plot-wise this movie doesn't really stand up to the likes of Nolan's Batman films. But if you're a fan of the character this movie is a fun hour and fifteen minutes to be had. It's creative, loves what it's doing and delivers you exactly what it promised.

After obtaining this DVD with the Arkham City game, I was optimistically looking forward to watching this series of short cartoons depicting batman between the events of the two most recent films. I was surprised to find the series was actually an anime, not something stated on the cover of the disk. The animation was so cheap and overstyalised in the first episode it actually made me laugh, but I accepted it in the hope it was a quirk of that one director. Though the presentation improved tepidly through the episodes, I was still shocked at the lack of effort in the animation which they try and masquerade as style. I accept the idea of each artists interpretation of the characters but it doesn't mean I have to like that batman is presenting alternately as a hench potato man and a skinny 20 year old Japanese boy. I have been a fan of certain anime franchises in the past but more and more I find myself switching off from the overstyalised nonsense which isn't necessarily superior to western animation. I felt like anime had no place in batman, a very western character. Good for a fan of anime and overstyalised characters, bad for a fan of what we see and know as batman.