Batman: Under The Red Hood Blu-ray Review

DC Comics keeps doing something so right with their direct to home market animated films that it really makes you wonder why the hell things seem to go so wrong with most of their film efforts. Sure, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight were very well done, but shit like Jonah Hex and Superman Returns have made me question just what they are smoking over in those Warner Bros. offices.

Thankfully, for every misfire that they have in live-action films, a gem like Batman: Under The Red Hood comes to DVD, Blu-ray and VOD. They may be getting their asses handed to them by Marvel when it comes to theatrical releases, but they sure know hat they are doing with animation.

Red Hood starts off with some very familiar ground, at the end of the "Death In The Family" storyline, with the Jason Todd Robin being beat to a bloody pulp by the Joker, and then eventually murdered by some explosives. Most of us hardcore comic book fans remember reading this, with some of us cheering the Joker on, but we don't remember hearing the sound of each sickening hit or seeing blood fly from Robin's face and body. Yes, this is by far the most brutal depiction of DC animation yet.