1. Voice acting - At this point, there's no reason to cast anyone other than Kevin Conroy and Mark Hammil as the Joker. This would have given it an even closer tie to BTAS. I thought DiMaggio had an interesting interpretation, but his voice is just too well known to me at this point. I just kept thinking of Bender on Futurama. Equally as distracting was Neil Patrick Harris as Nightwing. Too jokey, not enough heft. Plus, he's the Music Meister on Batman B&tB. And whomever was the Black Mask didn't just chew the scenery, he swallowed it whole.
2. Tone - I wasn't a big fan of the aggro tone of the piece which clashed heavily with the retro flashback's to Todd as Robin. Batman's in full a-hole mode and you never feel any remorse for the what Jason Todd has become. He was shocked when he learned Red Hood's identity (which BTW, the world's greatest detective should have caught onto a lot earlier) but trauma like this should have cracked his grim visage. Maybe have him open up to Nightwing and express his pride in his first partner/adopted son. Instead he shoos him away like a pesky fly. Which brings up a bad piece of plotting: Nightwing rolls his ankle and is never seen again in the film? He should have appeared somewhere in the final act.
3. Animation - For the most part it was good, but the CGI was uneccesary and really poor.
So certainly not as off as Superman Doomsday, but nowhere as good as Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths. Next up on the DC direct to DVD slate is an adaptation of Superman/Batman vol. 2 Supergirl which I didn't care for much the 1st time around. After that is supposedly All Star Superman, which is probably the greatest Superman story since Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? I'm a bit worried...
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