Batman: The Killing Joke Review - 5 Ups And 6 Downs

2. The Joker Has A Song (And It's Awesome)
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As The Joker is subjecting Commissioner Gordon to his demented fun-house in order to prove that anyone can be turned mad by "one bad day", he decides to perform a song and dance routine to try and push Gordon over the edge.

Cue an outrageous 90 seconds of The Joker mincing around with his minions in front of Gordon, singing a tune that promotes insanity, full of zingers such as "life is swell in a padded cell" and "you can trade your gloom for a padded room and injections twice a day".

As if that wasn't bad enough, while the song plays out, Gordon is transported down a hallway of images showing off a naked, bloody Barbara after the Clown Prince of Crime has had his way with her. It's grim, but appropriately so, and Mark Hamill does a fantastically off-the-wall job with the singing.

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