Directed by Junpei Mizusaki and with character designs by Takashi Okazaki, Batman Ninja starts with the Bat Family and all of the rogues being taken by Gorilla Grodd’s (Fred Tatasciore) Quake Engine and placed into the past, somewhere in a Japan where modern technology still exists. Batman (Roger Craig Smith) may have the Eian (Matthew Yang King) of the Bat Clan of Hida on his side, but everyone else has become a feudal lord in the two years that have passed since he was lost in time.

This places Catwoman (Grey Griffin), Nightwing (Adam Croasdell), Red Hood (Yuri Lowenthal), Robin (Yuri Lowenthal), Red Robin (Will Friedle) and Alfred (Adam Croasdell) on the side of good, along with Batman, against the Joker (Tony Hale), Harley Quinn (Tara Strong), Bane (Kenta Miyake), Two-Face (Eric Bauze), Deathstroke (Fred Tatasciore), Poison Ivy (Tara Strong) and the Penguin (Tom Kenney).

American writers Leo Chu and Eric Garcia rewrote the film from the original Japanese script that was written by Kazuki Nakashima, ultimately making two very different versions of the same film with different voice casts.

The animation is pretty crazy, giant robots and monkeys battle and this gets pretty far from the world of Gotham City, but I enjoyed it. It definitely takes chances.

This will have a sequel next year, Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League.

You can watch this on Tubi.