Slowly, but surely, the scripts for movies are moving more and more towards game stories. Watching this film felt like I was going through a game console campaign in some DC game. This has both good and bad consequences. The good ones are that all the characters get a bit of the story and the action, instead of the classic Hollywood script which are centered only on the two protagonists. The bad ones are that... well... it feels like a game. There is no real attention to detail or to continuity. Things happen because you need to get to the last level - with the minimum of effort, obviously.
The end result was positive to me, though. The movie is filled with bloody scenes, with Harely Quinn and Joker insanity and with real violence, as well as having a real story, as weird as it becomes being a DC universe thing. It feels funny to me that if they would have made this into a live action film, they would have had to rate it R. In my mind this can only be good: instead of paying a zillion dollars to certain actors just because their faces are well known, pay the animators to create anything their artistic minds can come out with.
Bottom line: I am half considering downloading all these direct to video animation movies. They certainly feel more entertaining than most blockbusters in theaters.
The end result was positive to me, though. The movie is filled with bloody scenes, with Harely Quinn and Joker insanity and with real violence, as well as having a real story, as weird as it becomes being a DC universe thing. It feels funny to me that if they would have made this into a live action film, they would have had to rate it R. In my mind this can only be good: instead of paying a zillion dollars to certain actors just because their faces are well known, pay the animators to create anything their artistic minds can come out with.
Bottom line: I am half considering downloading all these direct to video animation movies. They certainly feel more entertaining than most blockbusters in theaters.