Gerechtigkeitsliga - Gefängnisausbruch in Gotham City

Possbily my favourite Lego DC Batman/Justice League DtV so far. Standout locations are Gotham, Arkham Asylum, and Joker's Fun House, whilst Madam Mantis's island Dojo looks good. Lost my attention a bit when the action moved to the 'underground kingdom', but the rest easily made up for it.

Introduced Nightwing and Batgirl, along with Beast Boy and Starfire flying the flag for the Titans.

There's a nice nod to the first foot chase with Red Hood in Batman: Under the Red Hood in the way that a certain character makes his first appearance here and how Batman deduces who he is. Some great reproductions of the covers of Action Comics #1 and Detective Comics #27 too - in Lego of course.

7.5/10

This film fails on several issues: one of them is on the superheroes' own credibility. Superman is presented as a fool one who doesn't know what to do. Cyborg and Wonder Woman the same. Then Robin appears in the most surprising way as the savior of the situation. Meanwhile Batman goes on a journey to his past where despite the emergence of a single funny character is not enough for sustain the movie. It's not the best Lego movie about DC characters, it's actually one of the worst.

A very lite, laid back movie. It has funny moments, a nice array of Batman Franchise characters & is pretty average. It's a one time watch, nothing too special but definitely ok. It deserves a solid 6 stars.

Batman and new Robin are taking on the villains of Gotham. Batman catches Nightwing leading to his surprise birthday party. The Justice League has a gift. They are taking over Gotham City crime fighting while Batman finally agrees to go on vacation with Batgirl and Nightwing. Neither of which goes very well.

The Batman part is mostly fine. It has moments of fun. The Superman vs Joker fight is probably the highlight. It has the most potential. I would have liked something even more silly. I can think of a lot of different tricks for Joker to play on Superman. This is fun. It could be funnier. It's fine for Lego TV.

It's insane that the sublime and the substandard can coexist like this. For anyone who has seen the wonderful Lego Batman Movie currently out in theatres you will literally be jaw-dropped at how bad Gotham City Breakout is. The Lego DC series started off so well but gradually got worse and worse. I have no interest left in this series. It was a mistake to shift the focus away from Batman and bring in the rest of the Justice League, especially Superman, who just doesn't work as a character, in any capacity, in 2017.

There is no plot here, just a mess of scenes, but I will try to put it in something resembling a sense-making order. Batman goes away on vacation for his crime-fighting anniversary while Superman does a pretty poor job of watching over Gotham City. Sounds simple enough but they both go off on so many tangents that nothing at all seems to be the focus. The characters are aggravating, the writing so juvenile and cringe-worthy it would make CBeebies blush, and the musical score, as expect, is too loud and intrusive.

No child is going to be entertained by this. Despite what the producers might think, children actually want challenging and stimulating entertainment. This is neither. Even at 78 minutes this long outstays its welcome. Skip it.