[Sentai]

Welcome. I decided, after being told to (), to consolidate all my Sentai Reviews! Into one thread. So this will be where they all are from now on.

Tonight we start with.. Under The Red Hood!

First, let's start with the comic. In the Comic Universe during the storyline "A Death in the Family" Jason Todd, the second teen to wear the mantle of Robin, died at the hands of Joker. Who beat him soundly with a crowbar, and then left him to die beside his Mother inside a locked warehouse in the Middle East. Now.. the ressurection gets a little muddled so follow me here. The Jason Todd that first appears is really Clayface. Who kidnaps Tim Drake, the next Robin, just to get inside Bat's head. The next Jason Todd is the real Jason, who was ressurected (And here comes the weird) when Superboy-Prime punches the walls of Paradise (IE: Heaven) and sends ripples through time. One of those ripples undoing Todd's death and bringing him back to life. I know.. Wtf Loeb. Wtf.

Now, how the movie handles the ressurection makes much more sense. Ra's Al Ghul (Which is pronounced Raish, not Ra's. Batman Begins still pisses me off with that...) feels he owes a debt to Batman. You see, in this universe, he sent the Joker after Batman as a distraction from his Mid East operations. But Joker, being Joker, took it to far and brutally murdered Jason. So Ra's kidnapped his body from customs, replacing with a latex fake.
And here's my first problem. He's fucking Batman. The world's greatest detective and analytical mind. Not to mention paranoid out his backside. You expect me to believe he couldn't tell the difference between Latex and a dead body? Or that he never checked it to start with?!
But it happened. So Ra's takes Jason to the Lazarus Pit, deciding the only way to pay his debt is to ressurect his ward. But Jason comes back wrong. The Pit screws with his mind and he runs screaming, and very naked, into the desert. At night. And somehow survives. Somehow Superboy punching time is making more sense.

Now in current time Batman is dealing with a new vigilante (And can I say: Jenson Ackles as Red Hood? Best decision DC ever made. Neil Patrick Harris as Nightwing was number two). One who's slaughtering Black Mask's underbosses, and slowly taking over his network. Not to become a crime boss. But because he feels the only to stop crime, is to tightly control it. Thinking there will always be crime and you can never stop it completely.

Now here's my second problem. Black Mask is a horrible person. He once kidnapped Catwoman's sister and her husband. Torturing and killing him in front of her, and then making her eat his body. So what do they do in the movie? Cartoon him up until he's just another cliche'd over the top character. I am not amused.

But Mask, not wanting to lose his hold on the crime in Gotham (Which he controls nearly all of), makes Ghul's mistake. He busts Joker out of Arkham to take down this new Red Hood. And guess what? Did you guess Joker betrayed him and threw him with gasoline into a subway car? Congradulations! Now this is after throwing everything the Gotham underworld has at Red Hood and failing.

Now during all of this, Batman is coming to terms with the fact Jason is alive. Even visiting Ra's in his stronghold to learn what happened. And of course, he and Jason confront Joker. And this isn't Mark Hammil Joker. It's an older looking Joker. Which I don't like. Every Joker should be Mark Hammil Joker, because Mark does the best Joker since Romero in the original.

Ignoring the fact they changed the origin story, and the fact they turned Black Mask into Wile E Coyote, I liked this movie. The story had issues in spots, and Joker was far to serious for my taste, but it was fun.

5/5

[Matrixbeast]

Brave and the Bold had a damn fine Joker.

Anyway, eeyup. Not much to comment on. Everything you liked about the movie I liked, and everything you disliked I didn't have any issue with to argue against.

So...Yeah. It's a pretty fun movie.
Though they do explain why Batman didn't check Jason's body before burial.
Batman is at his best when he's not perfect, just like everyone not named Superman.

[guncannon109]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Brave and the Bold had a damn fine Joker.

Anyway, eeyup. Not much to comment on. Everything you liked about the movie I liked, and everything you disliked I didn't have any issue with to argue against.

So...Yeah. It's a pretty fun movie.
Though they do explain why Batman didn't check Jason's body before burial.
Batman is at his best when he's not perfect, just like everyone not named Superman.

By the power of Madoka... I get you now Matrix...

[KRX]

Y'know, Superboy-Prime punching the multiverse is beginning to seem like a legitimate explanation. Why?

Matrixbeast and Sentai are agreeing on something at a level of 99%.

[Sentai]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Brave and the Bold had a damn fine Joker.

Anyway, eeyup. Not much to comment on. Everything you liked about the movie I liked, and everything you disliked I didn't have any issue with to argue against.

So...Yeah. It's a pretty fun movie.
Though they do explain why Batman didn't check Jason's body before burial.
Batman is at his best when he's not perfect, just like everyone not named Superman.

I must be the only person in the world who never saw that. Is it on Netflix? And yes, I know they explained it. But Bruce Wayne is paranoid to the point of near delusion. This is the man who makes back up plans for his back up plans of his back up plans. It seems wrong, somehow, that he wouldn't check the body. Just once.

Quote:

Originally Posted by KRX

Y'know, Superboy-Prime punching the multiverse is beginning to seem like a legitimate explanation. Why?

Matrixbeast and Sentai are agreeing on something at a level of 99%.

I know... I'm frightened to..

[Matrixbeast]

Well, they needed an explanation beyond Superbitch Prime...
Besides, him choosing not to examine Jason's corpse out of grief makes him a character, and not a walking utility belt.

And I don't think Brave and the Bold is up on Netflix.

[Sentai]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Well, they needed an explanation beyond Superbitch Prime...
Besides, him choosing not to examine Jason's corpse out of grief makes him a character, and not a walking utility belt.

And I don't think Brave and the Bold is up on Netflix.

It does. But it just bothered me

[Kiryu]

Under the Red Hood is probably the best animated movie's DC put out, in my opinion.

[Sentai]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kiryu

Under the Red Hood is probably the best animated movie's DC put out, in my opinion.

Justice League: Doom

And something has been bothering me. Namely you Jeff Loeb. You want to write Jason Todd, but he died before you arrived after the fans voted him into the grave, so you decide tor essurect him in the most idiotic way you can think of. "Superboy Punched Time *trollface*"?! ... Wtf man.

[Sentai]

Sentai Reviews! Super Hero Taisen!
(Because I hate myself just that much)

There's a reason they named this movie Super Hero Taisen. It's because SHT is just one letter away from being what this movie is, and you can fill in that letter yourself. I'm telling you right now only watch this movie if you find it on Youtube or something. Do not spend hours downloading the torrent, unless you really hate yourself and have so much freetime you have some to burn waiting for this pile of steaming biscuits.

I used to love Decade. I think everyone likes Decade the first time they watch it. Or atleast the first few episodes anyway. Then you look back, examine the plot, and realize.. there isn't a plot. And that's alot of what SHT is. No plot. This movie is just one hour and about forty five minutes of "How many Sentai and Riders can we have on screen at once?!".

And, aside from three or four exceptions, no actors return for this pile. Hardly any Riders, or Sentai de-henshin and show their faces. Which is an honest shame. One of the things I love about Gokaiger/Goseiger 199 Heroes (Which you should see, because it's a much better movie) was that so many past Sentai actors returned. In this? Not so much. It's basically just Tsukasa and Marvelous. With the Gokaigers and DiEnd moping for the length of the movie, and whining about how they don't know wtf is happening. Guess what Joe, none of us do either!

And thats what this movie should've been called. Gokaiger vs Decade, because thats what it was! There was no great Sentai v Rider war like we all wanted. Just Decade and Marvelous seeing who can be the biggest troll, and our heroes whining like someone took their dollie.

The worst part as got to be DiEnd. What in the Holy Hell were Toei thinking with the damn ending to this pile of steaming horseSHT they called a movie. See, I think they didn't have an ending because they didn't have a plot. So they figured F-This, said DiEnd did it, and went to that new Hostess Club down the street. The ending to Pile of SHT is such a slap in the face to anyone with an elementary school education that Toei should've held an Apology News Conference and offered reperations. DiEnd goes so against his character. But that isn't even the worst part. Oh no. It's when we learn that DaiShocker and Zangyacks grand plan, the plan for which they were going to take over all of reality.. was to combine their warships into a giant robot. That was it. That was the big pay-off for sitting through this Pile of SHT. You know? I understand why people like Akibaranger more than I understand why in the name of Gosei anyone would like this movie.

And only my current level of tiredness is keeping this review as nice as it is. So much hate for this movie. But, I also want to end this review on a positive note. And that comes, as always, in the form of Fourze. Fourze is the flower that grows out of this Pile of SHT. When he combines with Go-Busters, and makes what I call Buster-Oh Fourze States, I actually smiled. I wish to God they would somehow make this a toy. My hope is that if Buster-Oh becomes an SRC, they add an upgrade set that turns it into this. Fourze: He makes everything better.

I'd like to end this with begging you all. Do Not Watch This Movie. Save yourselves the trouble, the anger, and the sorrow of having wasted your precious time. Avoid This Movie like I Avoid Akibaranger. Save yourselves!