Ranking Every Animated Batman Film From Worst To Best

20. Batman: The Killing Joke

There is an argument to be made as to whether or not the long-awaited adaptation of the classic Alan Moore graphic novel would be as poorly received as it was had it not featured it's long, painfully nonsensical prologue. Sadly, you have to judge the film that was actually made, and in those terms, The Killing Joke was not great.

The film is wildly inconsistent, with its prologue and main event being crammed together like two puzzle pieces that don't belong. That said, the adaptation portion is mostly fine - it's probably just faithful to the book to a fault. It does absolutely nothing new, making the whole thing a bit pointless when you could have just read the book.

It's the prologue that really does this movie in, though. It's unnecessary, it's bland, and if anything, its better, more involved animation style only serves as a reminder of how good the adaptation could have been had it taken the same liberties.

The only thing this movie really has going for it is Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill as Batman and the Joker, respectively. But even they couldn't save this painfully disappointing production that does a disservice to the book it was based on.