Plot: When Batman returns from feudal Japan, he checks whether his exploits in the past may have affected the current timeline. To his surprise, he notices that Japan is gone from the map. Instead, it has become a world floating in the sky, where the Yakuza reigns. From time to time, they rain down on Gotham City hoping to conquer our world.
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March 22, 2025
I appreciated the first Batman Ninja film, so I had reasonable expectations for this sequel. There's some good stuff here, but the film gets weighed down by overexposure to a rather dull plot and an excess of pointless references, to the point where it starts taking away from the entertainment.
I'm a bit tired of alt universes and overlapping timelines, and this film leans heavily into it. It takes way too long to introduce a range of alternates to familiar characters and up until the very end this film is very plot-heavy. Mizusaki also mixes too many visual styles and ideas, which makes it somewhat incoherent. There's still a lot to like, but it's mostly confined to individual scenes and moments.