Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham

2023

Action / Animation / Fantasy / Horror

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 47% · 14 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 47% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 7452 7.5K

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Plot summary

Explorer Bruce Wayne accidentally unleashes an ancient evil, and returns to Gotham after being away for two decades. There, Batman battles Lovecraftian supernatural forces and encounters allies and enemies such as Green Arrow, Ra's al Ghul, Mr. Freeze, Killer Croc, Two-Face and James Gordon.

Director

Sam Liu Photo
Sam Liu

Top cast

David Dastmalchian Photo
David Dastmalchian as Grendon
Darin De Paul Photo
Darin De Paul as Thomas Wayne
John DiMaggio Photo
John DiMaggio as James Gordon
David Giuntoli Photo
David Giuntoli as Batman
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1 hr 30 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MattTB87 7 / 10

Best "elseworlds" adaption to date.

In Brief: Solid 7/10 - Well rounded experience following the major plot points of the graphic novel with above average VA work and lovely anime-esque animation.Caught an advance screening of this over a month ago and have been waiting to review it ever since. David Giuntoli lends his voice to Bruce/Batman in this outing and honestly it decent justice to the legacy of batman voice acting, sounding pretty much exactly how you'd expect - closer to the Arkham games than to more recent adaptions. The same can also be said for Harvey and Alfred, who are particular high points, but sadly this doesn't extend to the supporting cast, with the younger voice actors coming across a little rigid at times.Animation wise, it leans into an anime style for the action oriented series and falls back to traditional western styles for backgrounds and story moments, providing a well rounded experience that looks excellent for the vast majority of the movie.Why have you given it a 7 instead of X?Without spoilers, there's some younger characters (Sanjay, Kai) who lose a lot of their agency between the source material and the adaption and are relegated to "let's drive the plot forward" instead of having motivations or proper backstory but y'no, it might just be the best elseworlds adaption to date!Give it a watch, if you liked Red Son, Gotham by Gaslight and felt utterly betrayed by the Injustice adaption, then this will likely be for you!
Reviewed by Milk_Tray_Guy 6 / 10

It's okay

Animated adaptation of Mike Mignola's comic from 2000. In the 1920s, Bruce Wayne returns home after travelling the world for 20 years following the murder of his parents. He soon becomes aware of mysterious events stretching back to the founding of Gotham, and a connected present-day plot to unleash an ancient evil. He also starts to find that those events shine a different light on some aspects of his past.The movie opens with Bruce and others in the Antarctic. A journey across gorgeous snowscapes - which begins behind the opening titles - is really striking, eventually leading to the stark contrast of abandoned remains of an expedition and several frozen corpses (which look like they've been photo-referenced from perhaps the Franklin Expedition). Bruce catches sight of what may be a survivor, and we're off into HP Lovecraft territory...Apparently there's some race/gender-swapping of supporting characters; I've never read the original so this didn't tick me off; the characters presented are still relevant to Batman's mythology (and there's some cool name-play). Voice acting is fine; David Giuntoli as Batman, John DiMaggio as Jim Gordon, Jason Marsden as Dick Grayson, Jeffrey Combs as Kirk Langstrom (I won't list more for fear of spoilers) all do well. Standout for me is Brian George (Raj's dad from The Big Bang Theory) as Alfred, sounding uncannily like Efrem Zimbalist Jr in BTAS!The plot is fine up to the introduction of a certain pair of characters, when it starts to go downhill; this may be Elseworlds but I still want it to feel like Batman - this could have been a John Constantine story (nothing against JC, btw). And the climax feels a bit generic. Frustrating after such a promising start.People seem either bowled over by this or find it pretty meh. Sad to say I'm nearer the latter. 6/10.
Reviewed by robertjamessaylor 10 / 10

Excellent Film! Don't Listen to Bad Reviews!

The film is great, the poor reviews made me laugh after watching it."They introduced too many characters too fast" these characters have been established in the DC universe for decades, if you don't know who they are then you don't belong here."Why are all the characters different than normal?" This one was funny, it's ELSEWORLDS as in not normal as in not canon."I couldn't figure out what was going on the whole time" It's HP Lovecraft dude, enough said."They don't go into the characters and add more depth" READ THE BOOKS THEN they only get 90 minutes to tell a story.The film was clever, interesting, violent, mystical and funIf you're a "Batman fan" as in you don't actually read the books you're not going to like itIf you don't know anything about Lovecraft then you are not going to like itIf you are an actual horror fan and an actual DC person then this movie is a must seeNO POSERS!
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