Batman of the Future - The Joker is coming back

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Movie
German title Batman of the Future - The Joker is coming back
Original title Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2000
length 74 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Curt Geda
script Paul Dini ,
Bruce W. Timm
production Alan Burnett ,
Paul Dini
music Kristopher Carter
cut Joe Gall
synchronization

Batman Beyond - The Joker comes back ( Engl. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker ) is produced directly for the video and DVD market animated film made in 2000 , which on the animated series Batman Beyond is based.

action

A group of the "Jokerz" break into a laboratory of Wayne Industries and try to steal a number of high-tech devices, which Batman prevents. The gang flees back to their hiding place where their boss, a mysterious man with a purple suit, pale face and a malicious grin, is already waiting for them.

During the gala party, at which the eighty-year-old Bruce Wayne is to officially return to the board of his family business, the mysterious clown intervenes and introduces himself, much to Wayne's horror, as the real joker. Terry McGinnis can, however, as Batman, intervene and prevent one of the party guests from being seriously injured.

Later, in the Bat Cave, Terry tries to find out from old Wayne how it is possible that the Joker is back and not aged a day. Bruce replies that it is impossible, since the real Joker died years ago and he was a witness himself, but remains silent about further details. He goes even further and demands that Terry return the Batman suit, which ends in an argument and Terry leaves the house bitter.

Shortly after the young man leaves, the Joker bursts into the cave, apparently he knows about Bruce's previous double identity. He forces the old man into his chair and leans over him, laughing. At the same time, Terry, who wanted to spend an evening at the disco with his girlfriend Dana, is attacked by the Jokerz gang.

After successfully fending them off, he visits Bruce again and finds the entire Bat Cave destroyed and Wayne poisoned with Joker's serum. He supplies the old man with an antidote and calls on Commissioner Barbara Gordon, the former Batgirl, to help. At Terry's urging, she tells what happened back then and reveals the cruel circumstances under which they had to fight their last fight against the Joker. Back then he had kidnapped Tim Drake aka Robin, tortured him with chemicals and brainwashed him into telling him all about Batman's real identity.

The big showdown took place in the ruins of the now closed Arkham Asylum asylum. The Joker and Harley Quinn had made their home there and Robin “adopted as a son”. After the crime clown prince played video footage of the tortures to Batman, there was no stopping him. He was ready to murder his adversary, but was badly wounded by him. Robin was supposed to shoot him now, but instead killed the Joker. Harley Quinn also apparently died in the course of the skirmish with Barbara by falling into a deep abyss and never being seen again.

Those involved, especially Tim Drake, who has grown up and now works as a communications engineer, have lived with this secret under the traces of the past. When Batman visits him, he explains how much he has hated the memory of his heroic existence in the meantime.

In the meantime, the somewhat recovered Bruce has analyzed the Joker's plan. Apparently, the maniac is planning to use the stolen technical equipment to build a system with which one can control the orbiting military satellites armed with laser cannons. Terry now suspects Tim Drake, because his technical know-how and his bitterness could be enough to be behind this new Joker himself.

When he confronts him shortly afterwards, it turns out that Drake is really hiding behind the new Joker, but differently than McGinnis thought. Tim Drake doesn't just disguise himself, he literally mutates into a joker in front of Batman's eyes, because when he kidnapped him and carried out his experiments on him, he implanted a microchip in which his DNA sequences are stored and now gradually after initiate the conversion process.

After one last big fight, the new Batman can destroy the microchip on the Joker's neck, ultimately destroying the Harlequin of Hate and Tim Drake regaining control of his body.

In the end Bruce and Tim are reconciled, whose ways parted ways at the time in an argument, and the aged Harley Quinn, cursing and grumbling, brings her granddaughters, the female members of the Jokerz, the Dee Dee twins out of prison on bail.

Production and publication

The film was produced for Warner Bros. Animation under the direction of Curt Geda . The script was written by Paul Dini and Bruce W. Timm ; Alan Burnett and Paul Dini were responsible as producers . Makoto Shiraishi was the artistic director and Kristopher Carter was in charge of editing . Some scenes, especially the flashback from the death of the Joker, were reworked due to the high level of violence. The Joker is no longer shot by fourteen-year-old Robin, but dies of an electric shock through his own fault, which can only be heard off-screen.

The film premiered on December 12, 2000 in the US in the abridged version. This came to Great Britain on March 26, 2001. The three-minute longer, unedited version was shown in the USA on April 23, 2002. Warner also distributed the film internationally on video, so that it was released in 2001 in the post-processed version in German on DVD. There were also television broadcasts in Sweden and Canada.

synchronization

figure English voice German voice
Batman / Terry McGinnis Will Friedle Christian Stark
Batman / Bruce Wayne Kevin Conroy Eberhard Haar
Commissioner Barbara Gordon Angie Harmon Isabella Grothe
Batgirl / Barbara Gordon Tara Strong Christine Pappert
The Joker Mark Hamill Hans Sievers
Tim Drake Dean Stockwell Holger Mahlich
Robin / Tim Drake Matthew Valencia Tobias Schmidt
Dee Dee twins Melissa Joan Hart Celine Fontanges & Katharina von Keller
Dana Tan Lauren Tom Dagmar Dreke
Ghoul Michael Rosenbaum Martin Lohmann
Chucko Don Harvey
Bonk Henry Rollins Marco Kroeger
Harley Quinn Arleen Sorkin Micaëla Kreißler
Jordan Price Mark Hamill Lutz Schnell

reception

Entertainment Weekly writes that the film paints the image of the Joker as a mixture of "swing and melodrama" . The original version, published later, also shed more light on the darker side of the relationship between Joker and Batman. The bottom line is that the film “may be animated, but it is definitely not a cartoon .” Sun Newspapers think that The Joker is Coming Back could have been a great Batman real film.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nisha Gopalan: Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (The Original, Uncut Version) , Entertainment Weekly , May 10, 2002
  2. ↑ criticism by Gerry Shamray, Sun Newspapers of Cleveland , February 7, 2003
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