2000 · animation · action · sci-fi
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
Directed by Curt Geda1h 17m2000
The Joker is back with a vengeance, and Neo-Gotham's Dark Knight, Terry McGinnis, needs answers as he stands alone to face the old Gotham's most infamous Clown Prince of Crime.
Our read: Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive animation · action · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme animation / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- epic-stakes
Watching Batman Beyond tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
?
Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
More info & search links
How Batman Beyond feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want the darkest Batman animated film, legacy and trauma included.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if teen torture flashbacks and Joker cruelty will keep you awake.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, with why →
Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
Pick tonight's film →