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James KriegComposer:
Frederik WiedmannCast:
Bruce Greenwood, Jennifer Carpenter, Chris Cox, John DiMaggio, Grey Griffin, Anthony Head, Yuri Lowenthal, Scott Patterson, Tara Strong, Bruce Timm (more)VOD (4)
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Feature-length animation following the dark knight as he tries to take down Jack the Ripper in Victorian-era Gotham City. After a number of women, including Pamela Isley (voice of Kari Wuhrer), are attacked in Gotham, the city is gripped by the fear of a predatory killer dubbed Jack the Ripper. While Bruce Wayne (Bruce Greenwood) prepares the World Fair, the vigilante known as The Batman teams up with Selina Kyle aka Catwoman (Jennifer Carpenter), cop James Gordon (Scott Patterson) and three young orphan boys to find the elusive Jack and put an end to his violent attacks. (Warner Bros. UK)
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Gotham by Gaslight is definitely a breath of fresh air after a decade of DC adult animation. The first comic in the "Elseworlds" series in 1991 was one of Mike Mignola's last works before "Hellboy". And Victorian Batman/Jack the Ripper is still one of the best things to come out of that decade. I'd still appreciate an adaptation of "Amazonia,", a similar Victorian comic featuring Wonder Woman, and then I would be completely satisfied.
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If it wasn't for an unfortunate script decision that sends a message of all things bat-like somewhere off into the sewer system at the very end (by which, among other things, it definitively deviates from the already quite different original), I would let myself be completely absorbed by the beloved Victorian atmosphere, even if it is not fully exploited here. However, the last twenty minutes swiftly wash away my previous impressions and cruelly extinguish the entire magic of gas lamps with an almost cruel swiftness.
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I’m quite interested in the original comic book, which unfortunately hasn't been published in Czech and I'm not sure it will be. It has charm in its animation, and even though it's just an alternative to Batman, it's watchable and has a pretty good story, which is very much due to how different the familiar characters are here.
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