ThereвЂ™s even time for a scene in which Bruce Wayne poses as a missionary with a bat symbol shaved into his head вЂ“ because of course thereвЂ™s a f*****g bat symbol shaved into his head.Д«atman Ninja smashes the established characters against the setting to split a creative atom, from which spills all kinds of cool ideas the Batmobile rocketing through the narrow streets of Japanese villages, say, or a ship-to-ship battle incorporating a minigun, or a rooftop swordfight.

ItвЂ™s fascinating to see how the Bat-family and rogueвЂ™s gallery have incorporated the setting into their usual costumes and disguises, from the JokerвЂ™s trademark green hair tied up a top-knot to a reimagining of Bane as a masked sumo wrestler.

You could, if you were so inclined, watch Batman Ninja on mute, so impressive and enjoyable are the character designs of Afro SamuraiвЂ™s Takashi Okazaki. Now that I think about it, itвЂ™s basically everything I might ever want from a film with the title Batman Ninja.Д«esides, precisely nobody is watching this for the plot, or character development, or any of that hoity-toity horseshit. ItвЂ™s really any old Batman tale with a Nipponese aesthetic and the EastвЂ™s usual predilection for absurdity. Not that thereвЂ™s much explaining to be done. And the little wrinkle that allows Batman to arrive late, as all good playboy billionaires must, provides a decent-enough excuse for characters to explain things to him (and, thus, the audience) without the exposition seeming out of place. ItвЂ™s all breezily covered in the first few minutes, leaving the remainder of the running time to busy itself with characteristically over-the-top action.

ThatвЂ™s about it for setup, and thank heavens for that. Thanks to the frankly lackluster engineering capability possessed by great apes, which I canвЂ™t believe nobody mentioned during the thingвЂ™s construction, Batman et al wind up in feudal Japan вЂ“ Bats himself touching down two whole years after everyone else, giving them plenty of time to Japanify their outfits and for his most well-known adversaries вЂ“ Penguin (Tom Kenny), Two-Face (Eric Bauza), Poison Ivy (Tara Strong), Deathstroke (Fred Tatasciore) and the Joker (Tony Hale) вЂ“ to have conquered various territories and styled themselves as feudal lords. The plot sees Batman and a fair number of his mates and enemies being temporally displaced by a time machine built by Gorilla Grodd (Fred Tatasciore).

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