Batman vs. Robin (2015)

Wonderful character development!

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

This film follows "Son of Batman." If you haven't seen that film, you will gather the gist of it in this one. Damian, as Robin opts to venture out on his own to the dismay of Batman. Damian gets mixed up with a powerful group of vigilantes, like Batman known as Owls. The only real difference is that Owls like to kill their prey while Batman does not. Damian must choose between being the assassin he was trained to be or becoming Batman's son.The cartoon was 79 minutes long. There was a lot of fighting as expected. I still miss the "Pows" but concede its time has past. This film included a lot of Batman flashbacks and questions vigilante justice as being no better than the criminals, but not too hard.If you didn't like the first one, don't bother.

Love animation and have really enjoyed to loved many superhero films, animated and live-action. Of the DC animated films, there are some good ones out there as well as some disappointments and ones that fall in between. 'Batman vs. Robin' is neither among the best or worst of the DC animated films. To me it's somewhere around high middle. Despite the somewhat misleading misnomer that is the film's title, the versus being more of the conflict between father and son over what Robin's path should be rather than some kind of action showdown, 'Batman vs. Robin' is vastly improved over 'Son of Batman' (good idea, weakly executed).It is not perfect by all means. It has the same faults that quite a number of the DC animated films have, that it needed to be about 10 minutes longer in order for the many characters and the many things going on in the story to be effective. What 'Batman vs. Robin' has over a lot of them is that the story is always compelling and surprisingly dark, darker than usual, and the characters aren't one dimensional, with for example a far more conflicted Damian than portrayed in the other films he's featured in. Talon and the Dollmaker are two of the series' better villains for instance. Sure, 'Batman vs. Robin' is a little rushed in places, complicated occasionally and Talon's real motivation is anti-climactically handled. On the other hand, the father and son relationship is handled much better here. It's not neglected, while not taking over too much of the story that it neglects the conflict, and has the heart, emotion and tension that 'Son of Batman' did not have so it was easier to invest in it. Batman is more interesting here while Damian is nowhere near as annoying and is more a realistic depiction of a conflicted teenager.The animation is very good, often great. There are some very nice detailed backgrounds, the characters are designed well and the colours are dynamic and atmospheric. The music is both haunting and rousing, a good fit for the film's mood. Writing is far from simplistic or childish, quite the opposite, while the story has a few issues but is compelling with some exciting and thrilling action. Saying that the villains are among the best of the DC animated superhero films is saying a good deal, DC have had a very hit and miss track record with their villains (an example of a hit being Joker in 'Assault on Arkham' and a miss being Deathstroke in 'Son of Batman'). The Court of Owls provides very believable, sometimes creepy conflict.Voice acting is very well done. Not just Jason O'Mara, Stuart Allan and Sean Maher but particularly Weird Al Yankovic and Jeremy Sisto.In conclusion, doesn't blow the mind but not bad at all. 7/10 Bethany Cox

Batman vs Robin is a really good film and it more than overshadows its previous installment with great action, one of the best modern story- lines of Batman and the voice casting of the Son of Batman. OK it may bothers me that they try to put in Damian Wayne in the story but whatever is well done and I am glad that it wasn't like Batgirl in the Killing Joke and be thankful for that because it would weird and creepy.As for the villains, the Court of Owls, are excellently ingrained to the mythology of Gotham and compare to them the Illuminati look ridiculous and childish.Yea what you are in war with the Catholic Church since the Middle Ages ? Are a threat for the greatest detective in the history of comics ? No, I didn't think so. As for secret societies go this has already become one of my favorites.As for the title Bruce and Damian animosity is build up and when it burst is really nice. Though it took long enough. What I do like to Damian is that he has already the skills to become Batman but he lacks the experience and control of his father. As for Nightwing ,despite his secondary role, he makes a great contrast with the new Robin for he like an older brother in the family. Any way this by far the best Batman films of the New 52 and I recommended to every Bat-fan out there. As for the final movie in the series I will write about it soon enough.

While Damian Wayne struggles to cope with Batman's no-killing rule, he soon starts to believe that his destiny lies within a secret society known as, The Court of Owls. Even tho the title Batman v.s Robin is kinda wrong since Bruce fights his son for just a while the real villain is The Court of Owls this film has a lot of action but also blood Batman gets stabbed more times than i can count he even gets inside a Batman Robotic suit and things go insane. Unlike the next sequel that came out this is actually a pretty nice sequel but also movie with a lot of action, suspense but also a very nice ending because after his father gets brutally stabbed and gets his ass whipped then Damian releases he was wrong? Seriously you think?