44/10
In this short film, IMDb attempts to answer: Where the hell was Batman?
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After the events of The Batman (2022), Oz Cobb, also known as the Penguin, is trying to take over Gotham’s criminal underworld. Aside from a bat signal in the final shot of the season finale, we never got our Robert Pattinson cameo in The Penguin. Colin Farrell fought tooth and nail to get his version of the Penguin’s smoking pipe in The Batman (2022), but it didn’t work out.
The DC Studios logo was placed in a rainy Gotham alley
In his own series, however, the character is depicted as a casual smoker who favors cigars. The umbrella falls and the logo changes to the Warner Bros. logo appears on The Graham Norton Show: Lady Gaga/Demi Moore/Colin Farrell/Richard Ayoade/Jack Savoretti (2024).
But after Episode 1, I can confirm that this show is amazing (so far)
I thought Colin Farrell was great as the Penguin in Batman, but I never understood that they would take a slim, good-looking, athletic actor and put him in a huge prosthetic and a big suit… especially when he looks like other famous actors who would be just as good. I also didn’t really understand why this spin-off was made and honestly I’m just sick of the Batman reboot.
But I didn’t expect to like it this much
I only watched it because I knew it was necessary to see a bridge between the first and second films, and my surprising enjoyment of Farrell’s performance in the first. The acting is incredible, the script is excellent and it surprised me with its quick plot twists. What I liked most was that there was a lot more color than in Batman.
I hope it’s just as good because honestly I can’t wait for the next episode
I noticed this almost immediately because it was a huge criticism of the film for me (I felt like I was watching it through the prism of Zack Snyder).
