Fortunately, the unique PG-13 lower finally noticed the sunshine of day two years after the G-rated model. In an interview with World’s Best and Toon Zone, Bruce Timm seemed again on the entire controversy and the occasions resulting in the movie’s authentic lower making its strategy to dwelling video. Hindsight is 20/20, so now realizing that each variations of the movie have been launched, Timm believed that after all of the ordeals with the film he ought to possibly have been extra versatile with the fits at Warner Bros. who needed to market the film to a youthful viewers. He shared, “Effectively, I would in all probability be rather less adamant about pushing for such edgy materials … the underside line is that the house video dept. markets their cartoons instantly at kids.”

Irrespective of the case, Timm is adamant that “Return of the Joker” just isn’t a “kid-friendly” movie, irrespective of who in command of the house video needed to promote it to. The whole lot surrounding the Joker’s demise within the film is darker than something seen within the authentic “Batman: The Animated Collection” or “Batman Past.” Even the toned-down model that was first launched had darkish implications once you take a better take a look at it. Furthermore, releasing the uncut model of “Return of the Joker” did not change the truth that Timm and his crew needed to take aside their authentic imaginative and prescient within the first place.