After Cosmic Clash, the other Lego
DC Superheroes: Justice League movie for this year is Gotham City Breakout (I don’t know if there’s another one; it’s
usually two movies a year). The plot is
about Batman being convinced to go in a vacation with Nightwing and Batgirl,
while Superman looks after Gotham City in his absence. However, Batman’s vacation doesn’t go as
expected as they find themselves dealing with Deathstroke and his unlikely
allies. Meanwhile, Superman’s stint in
Gotham also doesn’t go as easily as he thought it would be. Batman’s villains break out from Arkham and
overrun the city. Superman
underestimates them due to their lack of powers, but they turn out being too
weird for the Justice League to handle.
It’s now up to Robin to teach the heroes how to handle the villains the
Batman way.
I think I had fun with Cosmic Clash more. It’s just quite hard to top the Justice
League jets that assemble into a mecha a la Power Rangers. But Gotham
City Breakout is nevertheless endearing, funny, and well-animated.
It has a lot of amusingly absurd
situations and dialogue. I particularly enjoyed
a lot how Batman would spoil surprises and reveals with his superior deductive
skills. I also like how the movie retcons
Batman and Deathstroke’s past by making them classmates that had trained under
the same master. And the supposed origin
of Deathstroke’s name had me guffawing.
If I need to say more about the
movie’s quality, I would be simply repeating what I’ve already said with the previous
Lego DC Superheroes: Justice League
movies. Basically, they are uniformly entertaining,
wholesome, and lovable. To end, let this
GIF speak of how delightful the movie is…
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