Mauro Heredia (maurodc) Probably "Son of Batman" isn't the best nor the most memorable animated flick of Batman, but that doesn't mean that it isn't important, you know? Because it's a story definitely worth to make a film adaptation, I mean...when I first knew about the existence of this movie, I tough to myself: "Wait! Batman has a son? WTF??? I have to check this out!"I haven't read the graphic novel this movie is based on (Batman and Son), but something tells me that almost all the hate towards this film is because it's not truly faithful to it. But, as I haven't read it, it's something irrelevant for me.But this doesn't mean that the movie has no fails. For example, a huge part of the movie is full of bloody battles, the cold attitude that Talia has even tough her father Ra's had just died (Batman fans will agree with me about the fact that Talia is truly faithful to her father and that if something happens to him, she wouldn't just throw it away).In spite of its fails, it is a highly underrated and worth to watch, because it portrays in a very decent way the paternal side of Batman that we have never seen before.

spikeprime This is the single worst Batman movie to date. I truly believe this is worse than Batman and Robin, because at least that film is funny.The plot makes no sense, the villain's motivations are frankly ridiculously stupid and nonsensical, the fights are uninspired, Damian Wayne is at his worst in terms of insufferable characterisation and insipid, mean-spirited dialogue, the voice acting ranges from fairly good to the worst I've heard in professional animation.Deathstroke is changed from an incredible and intelligent fighter into a pathetic, idiotic bumbler who gets knocked out with one punch from Batman. The supposedly unstoppable army of Man-Bats are actually less effective and far dumber than normal human beings, and stopped in one of the weakest anti-climaxes I've ever seen. The plot is so poorly handled that I honestly started to laugh out loud at what were supposed to be tense scenes. That's not even getting into the scene between Batman and Talia which seems to suggest the writers are rape apologists--yes, Bruce states he was drugged and raped by Talia, but that it was "not all bad" which is undoubtedly the most horribly awful thing I've heard in a DC movie.Bottom line, I only recommend this to people if you want a truly hilariously inept film to watch and laugh about with your friends, which is precisely what I did after trying to watch it on my own.

bbickley13-921-58664 It's interesting that this installment of the DC animated films is called Son of Batman and it stars a ten year old Robin, yet it's the most adult of these movies I ever seen.Adapting the origin of Damian Wayne from the comics, Deathstoke (who was not evolved with this in the comics)unleashes his plot to take over the league of assassins, killing Ra Al Ghul in the process, and putting his daughter Talia on the run, forcing her to unite her son, Damian with his biological dad, Batman.The character deign was pretty good. Batman's costume was pretty cool as well as Nightwing's who made an appearance. I really like the design of Killer Croc who makes an appearance in the movie as well.The story was pretty cool too. They did not let up just because Robin is only ten. The film is dark and Damian is as dark as he is in the comic books. They did not get that wrong. I feel there was a misstep in Batman, however, but Robin and his relationship with Nightwing was close to the comics.The animation was mediocre. It seemed that they were trying to make the whole thing gritty and more down to earth, realistic, which I'm not a fan of. It's animation, you can make it big and sir real. If they wanted to make it real than they should have made it live action (which would have made this movie a 10) The voice direction was pretty lame as well. I was into Jason 0'Mara as Batman for a second, but his silent but deadly Batman turned out not so good. He was just one of many voices that just did not seem to click together. I'm sure every animated movie has the voice acting done all separately mouths apart, but it's not suppose to sound that way and this movie does. I think it's another fault of the animation (possibly the music as well)Overall, the people over at Warner Bros animation have done it again with another excellent straight-to-DVD DC animated feature.

RevRonster Marvel dominates the live action stuff but, until DC catches up, they have the animated film department mastered…until they released "Son of Batman." I'm not one to complain about the changes made from adapting a book, graphic novel or comic (and this one had A LOT of changes), instead, the problem that hurt my enjoyment of this one had to due with the fact the story was just really weak and the dialogue was absolutely terrible.While the film follows the predictable lines of a man finding out he has a son and has to somehow connect with them despite the fact they have been alienated from each other for a significant amount of time, the movie fails to hit that requirement of the two finding common ground and they learn, laugh, love and grow together. Yes, "Son of Batman" ends with Batman and his son Damian being a good team and Damian even becomes Robin, the problem is that we don't really see them grow. Damian is a bratty little snob of a child up until he gets the exact thing he wants and is the one thing Batman keeps trying to teach him not to cling to and then *BAM* they are all good and their common ground is found and are now the best of besties. It was a very weak attempt at family drama and matters aren't helped by the fact the film has terrible dialogue to back it up.Some will write off these complaints as nothing because the film is "just a cartoon, man," but when you compare this film to the other, numerous quality films that DC has released based on their characters and their iconic stories, this film just feels like a letdown and something that was thrown together too quickly.What's up, brother? Feel like reading more of my rants, ramblings, geek references, bad jokes, and other movie reviews (like a more in-depth look at "Son of Batman" and other animated Batman movies that, thankfully, don't include his annoying son)? If you do, you can visit my blog at revronmovies.blogspot.com. If you don't and hate me now (because hating people is easy on the internet), I just want you to know that I still think you are a beautiful person and want to make you some chocolate chip cookies.