THE MOST BIZARRE BATMAN MOVIE EVER MADE 

Lovecraft wrote a short story called "Cool Air" about a man who died, but kept himself animated and conscious afterward using subzero temperatures. When his refrigeration equipment broke, he melted into a puddle of liquefied flesh. The Mr. Freeze parallel works well.

Remember, this was written by Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy. Of course it was going to get weird

This ending for the else world kinda made me feel bad for the gang. Bruce will forever be a Bat Creature, Dick and Sanjay killed off. Everyone was lost to save others. Noble, yet sad to see.

Batman vs Lovecraftian monsters is honestly a pretty slick idea.

I honestly didn’t make the Grendin/Mr. Freeze connection at first. I see it now, but I’m also not 100% sure they meant for him to be “Mr. Freeze” at all in this movie

Imagine the Joker being in this movie. BUT, He's a regular guy with a dark sense of humor.

I highly recommend reading the book. It's absolutely awesome. Love the Lovecraftian twist and its written by Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy

This movie is one of the best spins/takes on the Batman formula. Dear god it was great. Only wish the Batfamily was more fleshed out before... well. Love how it takes the Batman story down the Call of Cthulhu formula and nails every single part of it.

Always glad to see The Demon -- and even happier to see Jack Kirby credited for his creation

I watched this movie recently. I liked the reimagining of the Batman universe in horror/occult terms. It's basically Batman goes Hellboy/John Constantine.

The CAMEO outro hits so much different now 😢

I don’t know why they used the Gotham By Gaslight suit when the Doom That Came To Gotham comic has its own suit. It’s quite the cool suit too.

So watching this movie inspired me to hunt down the original comic, and wow are they different in some important ways. There are some things the comic does better and some things the movie does better. Though most obvious change is that Bruce's wards are just straight up Dick, Jason, and Tim; while the movie changes Jason to Sanjay and Drops Tim for Kai Li, but everything plays out exactly the same with them. This just feels like change for change's sake. In the Comic, Talia actually has feelings for Bruce, its not just some random fan service acknowledgement. Ollie is kinda a wet fart in the comic, he's mostly just their and gets instra-killed by Ivy. The Movie does SO much more with him and does him better overall. Killer Croc is actually important and not just a goon, he has mythos and lore and is tied to the founding fathers of Gotham. Also another change, that makes more sense in the comic, is that the librarian is one of the founding fathers replacing Cobblepot (which makes his showing up in this movie totally random) AND the man in flames which makes more sense seeing as how he died. Two-Face in both is just kinda there. Exactly the same in everyway. I thought maybe we'd have more info on why he's tied up in all this, why he's 'the door'; but nope. Overall, it feels like the lore and story is better in the comic, but the characters are mostly better in the movie.

Just FYI, NOpe, the penguin, and Two-Face didn't do much in the comic either if memory serves.

As a Batman and Dieselpunk fan, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie

So i love else worlds, if you understand "this is gonna be a crazy what if" and you love that stuff your gonna have a good time. If your very much "NOT MY BATMAN!" and need batman to be very much one way, just keep on moving.

Was waiting to see if you would make a video on this! Can’t wait!!

I really liked the movie despite the new settings and the difference in the main story, I only wish they would have expand on the bat family more before killing them off. And the Green Arrow was a great character, it was the saddest part for to see him gone.

Ive always seen this story as a Lovecraftian story that has Batman, over a Batman story with Lovecraft stuff. It has that bleakness that comes from everyones favorite horror writer, that demands you ignore everything about what the man believed and felt. Because oof Lovecraft was not a great human.

to my understanding, the whole point of all the great old ones is that they are so far beyond our ability to defeat them that they barely even notice we are trying. It is like asking an ant to turn off a sun, he is just one little guy, he cant do that. Now sure its Raj that is the one getting defeated not Ch'thulu but still being able to contain essence of something that survied great crunch of previous/alternative universe (according to some itnerpretations anyways) sounds like massive nerfing of the entity.

Wait until they adapt A Serious House on a Serious Hill.

2:21 I think this Mr. Fries is a imalganation of Grundy and Fries

I feel like kai li cain is supposed to be a mix of cassandra can and carrie kelly becuase of the one seen when oliver accidentally calls he kelly instead of kai li but idk maybe its just me

@9:39 that text message was WAY more distracting than it should’ve been lol. Like I checked my own phone.

You had me at Batman fights Cthulhu

I'm actually curious if you're going to cover justice league gods and monsters at some point cuz that story is one of my favorite else world stories

Let me clarify some things. This is one of the best DC movies. Let me tell you. The title is no exaggeration. I think it's even the darkest movie but that isn't the only reason why it's good. 0:30 yes it is the weirdest and darkest. Surprised clayface isn't in this. I'd argue Ras al ghul had less screen time than Talia. Sanjay Tawde...... Jayson Todd. Naw but he was the funniest character even if he was nothing like Jason, he was the most likable. The Batman in this movie is more human though. Feels like a little more stoic and normal Batman version of Earth One Batman. This is one of the best DC movies. It's no SuperSons or Under the Red Hood but it's pretty good. The tone and stakes feel real and genuine, moreover The Batman 2022

I fucking LOVE this batsuit and the gaslight batsuit very bloodborne

As someone who read the comic it’s basically a 1:1 adaption warts and all .

Yeah I felt the same way as you after watching this movie. Weird, different, but still enjoyable. One correction: the big lovecraftian monster at the end is NOT Cthulhu. They said it was Iog Sotha.

Huh. I thought I was just imagining that cl Clark and Lois cameo at the end.

Agree totally about Oliver Queen in this. I think he stole the show.

Is it available for streaming?

I watched this the other night for the first time and thought it was solid. Really cool adaptations of villains.

In the comic, there was no Sanjay and Cassandra. They were actually Jason Todd and Tim Drake, with Jason being frozen by Freeze and Tim taking over Bruce's company. Dick still dies as well, he's just ripped apart by Killer Croc.

See, I’ve always thought that Marvel had the Cinematic universe on lock. I think WB should’ve focused on more high budget self contained stories instead of trying to copy Marvel

Please don’t watch this movie while you’re high cause all the animation and colors blend together 😂

I feel like this movie would be so much better as a 5 to 6 episode limited series

David is an underrated voice actor for batman and seing his live action work i think he could play the charicter great in that field aswell.

I actually watched this weeks ago and I thought it was pretty fucking cool.

I just found out this came out. I am about 20 min in and I remembered that u had a video on it. So i paused it to watch this and see if i should finish it

I think Jay had the same lack of filter that Jason has. He said what cane to mind.

Mr. Freeze from The Batman (animated series) was also very different from Mr. Freeze in BTAS. This version sounds the most different, though.

This sounds amazing and I've never heard of it.

Where does the clip at 13:35 comes from? Is that a Gotham By Gaslight mod/game?

Imagine if Kevin could've voiced this, he was the best

Now we're talking 🔥🔥🔥 thanks

4:41 Surprisingly, no, they play the exact same roles. The only difference between The Penguin and Two face from comic to movie was fewer lines

Vee! Do you still sell Veetard T-shirts? If yes, where can I buy one?? Thank you!

Since it's based on a comic I don't really mind it being pretty faithful to how it depicts that stories version's of the characters. I don't mind if stories set in drastically different time periods or settings make drastically different versions of it's original cast with some details calling back to them.

This Movie is Basically the Hellboy Creator making his Bizarre Version of Batman and as Much as I Love Things that are so Crazy it might Work,this Movie isn’t One of Them, I Know it’s a Elseworld Story but it’s So Strangely Weird and Confusing I hat I felt Disappointed.

On a technicality the Lovercraftian God is Iog-Sotha/Yog-Sotha who is the progenitor of Cthulu, and takes inspiration from "The lurker at the Threshold" and "The Doom that Came to Sarnath"(espcially for the title). I pretty sure that this elseworlds version of Cthulu is Ra's al Ghul or atleast his vessel.

This movie made me hella emotional

Green arrow was definitely the best character in the movie

I think this should have just been an Etrigan solo film. Would have been better I think.

this movie while isn't my favorite batman movie is a interesting batman movie especially seeing him fighting Cthulhu was very interesting at least in my opinion.

This was such a bizarre yet really good movie to check out. I forget which Animated Batman movie it was but so far from what I have seen, this is still the second most bizarre one. The most bizarre thing I think I have see was when Barbara Gordon was a young adult and had sex with an older Batman.

Talia is the one who moves the plot. She was not useless/pointless

Sounds interesting I'll look into the comics

It would be nice to have a Batman meets Hellboy movie, but I guess this is just as good.

This worlds green arrow was insanely cool

Aye another Etrigan fan- bless 🙌🏿

Batman wearing a trench coat will always be goated and it doesn't even have to be only for period pieces. It works as perfectly as his cape because he's a detective with deep noir roots, its also why i dug the cape in The Batman it resembles a trench coat it and has an art deco pattern to it

bro just reading the comic would have taken less than an hour of your time.

finally a batman movie where the ending is not a happy one

What movie is the scene at 1 min 12 seconds in the video from?

Nah, the Penguin and Harvey didn't do much more in the comic

Batman embraced his fursona in this movie. He becomes a literal furry.

Barbara got the batman stand

David really is an underrated Batman actor. He’s much more comfortable in the role and I’d love to see him as a regular

This one was definitely great imo

Harvey Dent was the key he mentioned that multiple times in the movie

I try tell my friends ,Bob Iger anit trustworthy

I picked it up, I enjoyed it but I felt like it dragged in a couple places but I still enjoyed it

I would really like to see a Victorian era Superman story. And a Lovecraftion Superman story.

I love Batman and the Cthulhu mythos, however I found this movie so ok. I mean i didn’t hate it, but the mythos are better when used in the context of mystery and not simple strange evil and distorted monster that need to be punched. It can be only my taste, but I think if focused more on a crime drama with a mythos theme, instead of just simple fights it would be a better movie. Especially because just like the CoC rpg most monsters you can’t even face cause they’re way superior than any human, even thou Batman could face some of them with some difficult

Harvey Dent despite barely having any impact had me on the verge of tears at the ending

😂did anyone else check there phone thinking that message when V’s phone vibrated at 9:30 into the video.

I always thought Arkham Asylum was an extension of Miskatonic University, in Arkham Massachusetts...

Two face is my fav batman villain by far

Jay is also a stand in for Tim due to Tim also being in comic

Damn it. Now we need a top ten or something video of unused DC character.

"Mwahahaha. I am going to suck your blood. I am Batman." Vee, I literally subscribed because of your Batman content (although I do enjoy other content I have seen in your channel). Now having said that, I really liked this movie and I wouldn't mind a sequel. Maybe with Kai Li becoming Batgirl, or a bat themed vigilante (like Bruce was before becoming a literal batman) and literal Batman returning. I loved that monster. Totally recomend this movie.

I loved Gotham by Gaslight. And the idea that Batman travels the world being introduced in the sequel of this movie is one I thought was cool. However, I think they went to over the top with the mystical stuff.

She was actually more based of Tim Drake than Cassandra Cain.

I love this movie so much

This movie was gorgeous.

I will b watching this tonight!

This was pretty much bloodborne: the movie with batman. I love it!

Definitely was the weirdest BatMovie I’ve seen

I reckon I know what happened: Some idiot was reading a batman comic or book (or maybe was just reading about Batman), they saw the words 'Arkham Asylum ' and they thought "Huh. So Batman is a Lovecraft character."

The previews look weird, glad I wasn't hallucinating! 😒

the eyeless monster reminds me of Venturestein from The Venture Bros

Top five all time animated Batman movie

Batman can use Magic is actually his Secret

i could hear your phone go off during the video

if you look at it, this ending actually takes a lot from the ending of Arkham Knight, Bruce Wayne dies so that Batman can live, but in a different way that fits this story a bit more, he becomes a protector to Gotham, a darker protector than before

"do you want to know why that is" Me: is it because he's batman? I may have watched too much HISHE.

I would like a movie with gentleman ghost and the shade

I had a hard time with this one. It was cool but it bugs me when they use characters in name only. Or in this case, in gimmick only. Why couldn't the heroes and villains just have been who they are? I just think it would have had a much stronger impact if it had been Jason Todd, Cassie cain, Victor freeze, ect. But hey those are just my 2 cents.