amiranda-39274
i discovered this awesome movie at an early age, i had already been watching The Batman TV show which is really awesome too, this movie takes place during the first 2 seasons, but this movie does not feel like just a long episode, it feels like it has the potential to be a great live action batman film! since you picked this movie, i assume you already know that Dracula is in this film, and this isn't some super villain pretending to be Dracula, it is actually the prince of darkness,of vampire lore, Bela Lugosi/Leslie nelson/Gary oldman Dracula! He is accidentally awoken by penguin who starts bleeding over his corpse, yes the minute you see that first drop of blood and Dracula eyes open, you know right away that this isn't any ordinary child friendly cartoon. Despite being in Gotham, they actually provide a believable reason why Dracula corpse is in Gotham, and his motivations seem simple enough...try to turn all of Gotham's population and very soon the world into an UN-dead army.And if a deadly joy buzzer wielding, insane Jamaican version of the joker isn't scary enough, Dracula actually turns him into a vampire. This leads to one of the most horrifying scenes ever, and one of most blood curdingly batman lines ever. Batman: a banks being robbed Alfred: I'm sure the police can handle it this time, Batman: its a blood bank. The vampire joker( that is so cool but terrifying to say!)is seen at the blood bank binge eating all blood in sight, and its not showing him from behind, its showing him dunking tons of blood into his mouth! ( its awesome!)and when batman starts fighting him, they accidentally cause it to start raining blood!!! Batman captures vampire joker, and bring him back to his cave ( nothing bad can happen there) and starts trying to find a cure for vampirism, meanwhile more and more people are being turned into vampires. Amazing enough batman does find the cure, they do make it look scientific and believable, and if there's anyone who could make a cure for vampirism, no doubt about, it would be the dark knight. Batman then goes to confront Dracula and his army of the UN-dead, the following confrontation has got to be the most bad ass moment ever! Batman single handily takes on a horde of vampires, injecting them each with the antidote, and kicking some major butt all the way. Finally the final confrontation begins between the dark knight vs the dark prince, their fight goes all the way back to the bat cave, batman gets beaten up, probably with a ton of broken bones, and is chased around by Dracula, while he rants, and then it turns out hes been luring Dracula to a good old fashioned view of the sun, this and a great one liner from batman leads to a very fitting and baddass death scene for Dracula. The characters are well written as they are in the show, this Bruce Wayne is way more happy and fun loving, but you know its just a mask, because batman is the real persona, and this is awesome depiction of him. This has got to be the best Dracula I've ever seen, despite having the cliché Transylvanian accent and clothing, i very much prefer it, it lets me know this is the same iconic Dracula from the movies. this plot has good dialogue, great atmosphere, the minute the sun goes down, you no longer feel hopeful that batman is prowling the streets, you feel actual terror for the evil lurking in the dark, the dread builds throughout the movie, batman is clearly outmatched, out-muscled, and outnumbered, ( i started wishing him to go ask for superman and the justice leagues help!) and there are definitely some nightmare inducing moments, but through the movie you come to realize how truly heroic and awesome batman really is, and it does leave you with a good feeling by the end. overall this is a great movie to watch on Halloween no matter what age you are ( i recommend you at least be 13 or older), also its a great batman movie in general,one of the best! i think some people just cant get past the name, but i assure you once you start watching this, you will be trapped in its cowl and its fangs.
TheLittleSongbird
And this is not anything to do with not liking Batman. I happen to love Batman, right from the 60s series(camp but compulsively colourful fun) to the animated DC movies with Batman:The Animated Series being the real jewel in the crown. This said, I happen to not be a fan of the The Batman show. It is not a terrible show, it has its good moments, but I do prefer more darkness and Gothic pathos when it comes to Batman and there are elements that take some getting used to. I happen to think The Batman vs. Dracula is much better. It is not perfect, Joker's character design like the show does take a lot of getting used to, in all honesty I never really warmed to it, and Peter Stormare while voicing Dracula with just the right smooth menace has an accent that is very inconsistent. However, the animation is really great, much smoother than the show's and has much more atmosphere. There is also a haunting music score, smart intelligent writing that has a much mature tone than the show and some exciting action sequences, though there perhaps could have been more. The story is very dark and compelling, with some both intense and moving moments and perfectly paced. I would have liked to have seen the Vampyric lore element further explored but that wasn't enough to harm the story. The characters are great, Batman is much darker and more brooding, Penguin as always is great fun, he was a bright spot of the show always, and Joker is more menacing and twisted than ever before. Dracula in design may be more Ras Al'Ghul than Dracula, but is still a more than worthy adversary to Batman. The voice acting is very good too, Rino Romano sounds more comfortable and brooding, Tara Strong is a likable Vicki Vale. Tom Kenny voices Penguin with great enthusiasm without ever overdoing it while Kevin Michael Richardson's voice for Joker is in keeping with the character's more twisted personality here, it didn't work in the show for me because that psyche wasn't really explored. All in all, a very good movie and much better than The Batman show. 8/10 Bethany Cox
Boba_Fett1138
This is an enjoyable enough movie to watch and to kill some time with but its not on par with most of the other animated Batman movies.I was slightly disappointed by the animations. Normally they try for a full length movie to give it a bit more flair and drawn out details. This movie just simply looked liked an extended "Batman" TV-series episode. I also didn't really liked Dracula's look. He was way too monstrous looking. How can you take this guy for a respectable gentleman that goes by the name of Alucard (weak, dumb, overused), in his human form?The fight sequences between Dracula and Batman are pretty nice to watch, since Dracula has far superior powers as Batman. It shows how vulnerable Batman is and that makes his character very humane and realistic, unlike many other 'super-heroes'. The choreography and action animation in those sequences are also really fine. Yes, the acting is really the best thing about this movie.I really hated the musical score and I missed the Batman theme in it as well. Wasn't Shirley Walker available?The story isn't that much interesting. I mean Dracula's tomb lying right underneath Gotham City and all...Some real lazy writing in this movie. It's a pretty cool concept and all, Batman versus Dracula (voiced by Peter Stormare) and couple of vampire minions and the Joker and the Penguin (though you can wonder what the purpose of those two in the movie is) but I just feel that the execution could had been a better one. The story now instead sort of feels like a modern update of the whole Dracula story. It's a story thats handled much better in the "Blade" movies, to which this movie obviously shows some resemblance as well. Pehaps a bit too many and obvious ones for my taste. No, there isn't really much originality in this movie.Watchable, but certainly not an highly recommendable one.6/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/
