A different way of telling a story

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Blistering performances.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I was intrigued when I found this animated "Batman" movie and decided to give it a go, since it felt like it had great potential given the setting in which it took place.However, while the setting was good, then the storyline was nothing more than your average generic and mediocre writing, which utterly diluted the entire experience.The overall impression of "Batman: Gotham By Gaslight" was a very mediocre one. And this is nowhere near being in the top league of animated "Batman" tales.The voice acting was good and the animation itself was good. But a mundane and unimaginative storyline just chopped everything right down without prejudice.Certainly, the hardcore fans of Batman will find some enjoyment in this animated movie. I, however, as a non-fan found it to be generic and mediocre at best.

Batman: Gotham By Gaslight does have a fascinating take on the Dark Knight fighting Jack the Ripper, but the animation comes off as cheap at times.

That's how it started. Took almost NOTHING from the original comic, save that Jack the Ripper was the villain.And then they made Jim Gordon the Ripper!?Screw that noise. There's not enough hate in the world to express my contempt for this movie.

**very slight spoilers**The source material was heavily discarded when writing this screenplay. I like both the original graphic novel and this movie for very different reasons because they are very different. The killer in the book is quintessential Jack the Ripper, whereas the killer and the situation in this movie is an amalgam of Jack the Ripper and H. H. Holmes. The latter is the real-life serial killer, the tales of which spawned the inception of the book-to-be-movie The Devil in the White City. Bottom line: I liked what they changed/added, yet the core story is still excellent by itself. The only downfall to this film I would say is that the pacing is a bit iffy and if the movie is going to be Rated R, no sense beating around the bush. Show the gore as it is meant to be shocking to the viewer. Lastly, in my opinion, if they were going to make all the changes they did, they may as well have had a female put Jack down. It would have been a nice sense of irony for the chauvinistic marauder.