Namely, the title duel: Batman and Superman have battled before in comics, so they must fight in their first film together, a group of talking heads reason in special feature “ Gods and Men: A Meeting of Giants.” The discussion then turns to the now meme’d “Martha” revelation, with different subjects trying to dress up the moment of peace as something less cheesy than convenient coincidence. This is where the Blu-ray functions like damage control, in which it tries to justify the movie’s laughably oppressive, tough guy tone by resorting back to the almighty canon. Her appearance, to look down her nose at an investigating Lois Lane, feels like a moment that was debated in the editing room, but other reinserted pieces have the extraneous aura of being planned for a Blu-ray long before the film even hit theaters.īy ballooning the film, the “Ultimate Ediiton” certainly doesn’t fix the overall problems with the story, which are themselves “addressed” in the special features. Even new characters lack exciting action, like Jena Malone’s character listed on IMDb as “Jenet Klyburn,” which some have speculated is somehow Barbara Gordon, AKA Batgirl (inevitably).
Other additions within "Ultimate Edition" are minor, like an extra phone call between Martha Kent and her super son Clark, or a few more scenes with Laurence Fishburne’s Perry White complaining about reporter Clark being distracted with investigating Gotham’s obvious crime problem. Instead, we already have the talking heads montage of people like Neil deGrasse Tyson and documentary filmmaker Vikram Gandhi verbalizing a question about Superman’s god status. This subplot about Batman and Superman’s collective influence on society could have been tackled succinctly with some good writing. These two stories provide a larger scope of the influence the title heroes have on the world, which ultimately speaks to the poor visual storytelling of the original cut-that instead of presenting cogent ideas within narrative, it relies on direct, flat representations, like visualizing the debate about Superman’s purpose by literally putting him on trial.
The most distinct additions regard two subplots for minor characters: one, a woman who witnessed Superman’s appearance in Africa and helps spread the lie that he killed innocent people, and, two, a convict whose doomed fate after being branded by Batman indicates how influential the Dark Knight has become within the justice system. Those two qualifications don’t mean that there’s an extra (or extended) bloody fight scene or that Batman says the “F” word more than two times, but that a lot of fat has been surgically reattached. First, the main event: a three-hour version of the original movie ( reviewed by Matt Zoller Seitz here), now boasting a toothless R-rating and 30 extra minutes.
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