Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2019)

March 31, 2019 (US) • Animation, Science Fiction, Adventure, Crime, Comedy, Action • 87m

Overview

Batman, Batgirl, and Robin forge an alliance with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to fight against the Turtles' sworn enemy, The Shredder, who has apparently teamed up with Ra's Al Ghul and The League of Assassins.

Director

Jake Castorena

Writer

Marly Halpern-Graser

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Troy Baker

Keywords

cartoon based on comic aftercreditsstinger

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Troy Baker

Batman / Joker (voice)

Eric Bauza

Leonardo (voice)

Darren Criss

Raphael (voice)

Kyle Mooney

Michelangelo (voice)

Baron Vaughn

Donatello (voice)

Carlos Alazraqui

Bane (voice)

Cas Anvar

Ra's al Ghul (voice)

Rachel Bloom

Batgirl (voice)

John DiMaggio

Mr. Freeze (voice)

Keith Ferguson

Baxter Stockman / Two-Face (voice)

Brian George

Alfred (voice)

Ben Giroux

Robin (voice)

Tom Kenny

Penguin (voice)

Andrew Kishino

Shredder (voice)

Jim Meskimen

Commissioner Gordon / Scarecrow (voice)

Tara Strong

Harley Quinn / Poison Ivy (voice)

Crew

Kevin Eastman

Characters

Peter Laird

Characters

Bruce Timm

Characters

James Tynion IV

Comic Book

Bob Kane

Characters

Dennis O'Neil

Characters

Paul Dini

Characters

Neal Adams

Characters

Freddie Williams II

Comic Book

Doug Moench

Characters

Graham Nolan

Characters

Bill Finger

Characters

Chuck Dixon

Characters

Kevin Riepl

Original Music Composer

Mitchell Lestner

Sound Effects Editor

Jake Castorena

Director

Marly Halpern-Graser

Writer

Heather A. Maxwell

Producer

Benjamin Melniker

Executive Producer

Kimberly S. Moreau

Line Producer

Wes Gleason

Casting

Kyle Stafford

Editor

Sam Register

Executive Producer

Chris Viscardi

Executive Producer

Robert Ehrenreich

Editor

Michael Uslan

Executive Producer

Gene Vassilaros

Casting

Reviews

Gimly

⭐ 5/10

August 25, 2019

When I first heard a Batman/TMNT crossover was in the works, right out of the gate I thought it was pretty weird. There's the obvious reasons - it just actually is pretty weird - but also the _Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles_ setting is like a _Daredevil_ parallel, and Daredevil is a Marvel character, but Batman is DC. So can they just like... **Do** that? Can we get an Amalgam Comics animation up in this bitch? But I digress.

Within ten minutes, I was having kind of hard time trying to figure out what tone _Batman vs, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles_ was going for. The animation style was something pretty typical of kids shows, plus, you know, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but then in the first proper fight scene, Raphael drops the knee and straight up splits this dude's face in half, spraying blood everywhere. So I mean... Who is this for? Anyone's guess, really. In that same scene, we get a "We're aliens" joke which is immediately followed up with "Actually we're turtles" for the audience, and one of the turtles delivers the quote "Ninja Vanish Time" to Batman so that the World's Greatest Detective is able to put together that they are ninjas. So they obviously assume that their audience need that awkwardly delivered information.

But with the martial arts background, mask, cape and bladed gauntlets, Batman fighting The Shredder actually makes a lot of sense. And a Ra's/Shredder team-up is maybe a little on the nose, but still pretty interesting. So there's something to this bizarre crossover.

I won't go into every complaint, I had, but let me sweat for this one thing: You can't use "Venom" as a short hand for "Joker Toxin" when you mean "Joker Toxin" and it's a DC setting, where not only is "Venom" a completely different thing that is generally accepted to exist in DC movies, this particular movie even features Bane, a character who uses actual the actual DC item called Venom. There was a moment early on in the piece with a line spoken in a cafe during a breakup of a lesbian couple (kind of a surprise to see in an animated movie, but again, who is this for) that genuinely made me laugh out loud, so hey, you take the bad with the good.

52%

_-Gimly_

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