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Batman.Year.One.2011.NTSC.DVDR-MADE
yEAR..........: 2011
iMDB.uRL......: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1672723/
iMDB.rATiNG...: 7.2/10
rARcOUNT......: 95 x 50
sTREET.dATE...: October 18, 2011
tECHNiCAL.iNFORMATiON
sOURCE........: R1 DVD9
cOMPANY.......: Warner Home Video
rUNTiME.......: 64 Min
aUDiO.........: Dolby Digital 5.1 English & French
Dolby Digital 2.0 Thai, Spanish, & Portugues
ViDEO.........: UNTOUCHED
aSPECT.rATiO..: 16:9
SUBTiTLES.....: English, Spanish, French, Portugues, & Thai
eXTRAS........: Partial
pLOT.iNFORMATiON
DC Universe's original animated movie takes on one of the most acclaimed texts among Batman fans:
Frank Miller's Year One, which retold the Dark Knight's origins as a crime fighter from a decidedly
hard-boiled point of view. The feature follows Miller's story arc faithfully, with young Bruce Wayne
(voiced by Benjamin McKenzie of Southland) arriving in a vice-ridden Gotham with a decade's worth of
martial arts training and a head full of vengeance over his parents' murder. At the same time, new
police transfer Jim Gordon (Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad) settles into his job, where he discovers
that the police are often worse than the criminals. What follows is an inversion of the traditional
superhero story, with both men, ostensibly on the side of law and order, taking the business of
saving Gotham into their own hands, with Gordon untangling the web of corruption around the city
while Wayne, as Batman, adopts a more hands-on (read: violent pummeling) approach. The feature,
codirected by Lauren Montgomery and Sam Liu (who previously shared helming duties on Justice League:
Crisis on Two Earths), captures the visceral grit of Miller's take, but not the depth of character
and story, which made the source material so rich. Exposition is delivered through cumbersome
voice-over, while the plentiful action threatens to overwhelm the scant characterizations afforded
by Tab Murphy's script. Casting is another mixed bag, with Cranston delivering Gordon's frustration
and fury with skill, but McKenzie and Katee Sackhoff (as Sarah Essen, Gordon's lover and future
wife) not quite striking the same balance. Striking the right combination of Miller's literary
leanings in the original text with the visual elements required to keep an animated feature
interesting is a formidable challenge, and one that the makers of Batman: Year One got only
partially right.
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