Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Batman Be-Leaguered

While fighting crime in Gotham City, Batman is visited by Superman, who invites him to join the Justice League. Being the hero who prefers to work alone, Batman refuses, but when news breaks of Superman having mysteriously vanished, Batman decides he has no choice but to team up with other heroes to find clues. However, they start to disappear, along with some valuables, this leads Batman to the greatest mystery he has to face.

This is a good TV short. Batman teams up with a different member of the Justice League in his search for clues, leading to helping each one battle a supervillain related to him. Also, the action is okay, even though it is short, but the mystery is what makes it interesting, as the supervillain causing the heroes to disappear will surprise you. Plus, the voice acting is good, Worth watching.

Be-Leaguered was the start of the Lego DC universe and unlike it's following feature length movies only stands at around 20 minutes.

It's a quick story about the Justice League trying to recruit Batman into their ranks but him refusing. But when the Justice League members get kidnapped one by one he jumps into action.

Alike the others it's dumb, its dumb and its aimed primarily at tykes.

What makes this one particularly bad is how pathetic it makes the DC villians and the identity of the real antagonist, it would have been less dumb if it were Howard The Duck.

Only for big fans of Lego DC.

The Good:

I liked the bit where it ended

The Bad:

Dumb payoff

Childish

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

I'm getting really burnt out on these Lego DC movies!

Batman should never laugh, it chills me to my very soul

At half the length this TV special manages to be better than the Bizarro movie. Opening in Gotham City we find Batman tackling the Penguin and the Joker in a jewel heist when Supes shows up and offers him a part in the new Justice League. Batman refuses and somehow Supes is teleported away by a mysterious entity. While investigating with the rest of the League they too disappear one at a time until Batman confronts the real villain.

The locations and models featured are fun, but I do believe that Batman has always worked better as a loner and doesn't gel with the rest of the shared DC universe due to the inconsistent tones.

Composer Tim Kelly could have made this felt a bit more cohesive by using the familiar themes but once again he just gives us a cartoon score.

Definitely worth watching, if unremarkable.

Lego DC Comics: Batman Be-Leaguered (2014) is a Lego DC animated short film about Batman not joining the Justice League and it was awesome.

Positives for Lego DC Comics: Batman Be-Leaguered (2014): This short film does am not excellent job at taking its story and condensing it into a short runtime. I like the arc of Batman being a lone superhero and wanting no part in the Justice League. The voice cast does a great job with their performances. The comedy is excellent and it made me smile. The action sequences are very entertaining. And finally, the last scene of this short film was really funny.

Negatives for Lego DC Comics: Batman Be-Leaguered (2014): Bat-Mite being revealed as the mastermind who kidnapped the Justice League was really dumb.

Overall, Lego DC Comics: Batman Be-Leaguered (2014) was an excellent short film with the DC superheroes in Lego form and I would definitely rewatch this in the future.

Superman is trying to recruit Batman into the Justice League. The bitter loner Batman refuses due to his mistrust of the superpowered alien. Somehow the superheroes are disappearing one by one. They've been kidnapped by Bat-Mite who is setting an elaborate apparatus to destroy the Justice League and forcing Batman to save them.

This follows the first Lego movie. I love the relationship between Batman and Superman. They have a fun scene but the situation pulls them apart. I'd prefer them as an unwilling buddy cop combo for the entire episode. Instead, the villain is Bat-Mite and his silliness saps away the satirical take of the superhero genre. Bat-Mite is a ridiculous fan boy and a satirical take himself. He may work to take the tar out of a serious Batman story. The only way to make Bat-Mite work in this may be to concentrate on his irrelevance. Opening the door is a good start but his whole story needs to be that. Like I said, this should be a comedy duo with Batman and Superman where Batman is pissed whenever Superman gets the bad guy easily and quickly. Their banter is the all and everything that this should be.