Batman and Harley Quinn (2017) poster
2017 · adventure · animation · comedy · crime

Batman and Harley Quinn

Directed by Sam Liu1h 14m2017
ElsewhereIMDb5.916kRT50%
  • warm
  • kinetic
Movie DNA

Warm, breathless, measured adventure / animation, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Batman and Nightwing are forced to team with the Joker's sometimes-girlfriend Harley Quinn to stop a global threat brought about by Poison Ivy and Jason Woodrue, the Floronic Man.

Our read · Batman and Harley Quinn (2017) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive adventure · animation · comedy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want raunchy animated Batman nostalgia with Harley's chaotic energy.

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Skip it tonightSkip if juvenile sex jokes and upskirt gags ruin your superhero night.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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