New Flix: Batman and Harley Quinn

After all of the *stuff* that went wrong in regards to Batman: The Killing Joke, is this a return to form or...more of the same?  Let's see...

Some vague time after all of the Animated DC Shows, Poison Ivy is teaming up with Floronic Man (who once made super Weed for her).

Their plan- to make everyone Plants.  Ugh.

Batman spends his time threatening to out a Government Agent as a lover of BDSM (no lie), while Nightwing's night begins with a fight and ends with...ugh...I can't SPOIL this...but ugh.

They recruit Harley to find Ivy, even though she hasn't seen her in at least a year.  Clearly nobody could do it.

Oh and she farts in the Batmobile.  Repeatedly.

To find Ivy and save the World, they must...sigh...stop at a Henchman Bar.  Here are 2 dancing Robots.  

This is not even the dumbest part.  That would be the TWO Filler Music Numbers in this 74 Minute Film (with Credits).

In a Film full of deaths (including one man impaled through the heart!), this happens.

Can Harley be the one to turn the tide and save humanity?  Will the Film end on a high note?  Why is Swamp Thing such a big part of this Story all of a sudden?

To find out, watch the Film (or not).

Ow- my childhood!  This one is bad, but I feel like it bears truly exploring as to why.  First off- the Tone is all over the place.  In one Scene, Harley bemoans her sad, post-Prison life.  In another, she farts in the Batmobile.  In yet another Scene, she is consoling a dying Scientist (she didn't know).  In yet another another Scene, she is making a pouty face to try and save the World.  This Film has murder, 2 musical numbers, mostly-just-about-rape, a joke about Bat Boners, an Ecological Conservation message, people eating magic vegetables, Harley pleading for independence AND the most insulting anti-climax in recent memory.  What. Is. This. Film?  This is my best Theory- Bruce Timm helped Write an ode to his (alongside Paul Dini and others) Series.  Meanwhile, Doug Benson woke up one morning with his own Script (somehow).  Finally, the people who stitched the Suicide Squad Script together ground these two together into a Sausage that would make Upton Sinclair vomit & we got this Movie.  As some weird, stand-alone thing, this would be dumb, but acceptable.  However, this is meant to be following Batman: The Animated Series, Mask of the Phantasm, Superman: The Animated Series, SubZero and Justice League.  Those are good.  This is not.  I want to love Bruce Timm, but he makes it so hard these days!  While this is insulting, dumb and mostly a waste of time, at least they gave up on over-sexualizing Barbara Gordon after...dammit.

Considering the source material and the man behind it, this is a big disappointment.  Who are you and what have you done with Bruce Timm?!?!?