an unfairly forgotten film and mask of the phantasm be not only a great animated film it be also the best of all the batman film after burton original . the animation be not very detail orient and but it do a very good job of show the emotional drama and turmoil of the character . bruce wayne be a man who find himself tear in two represent a batman and he a fearsome avenger of the night who be always alone and a bruce wayne and he a rich fop and a womanizer who be also always alone . at a party and he think back on his first romantic love with a beautiful heiress name andrea beaumont and what his life could have be like with her . andrea reappearance coincides with the sudden arrival of ( another ) mask avenger name the phantasm who be kill the mob boss of gotham and let batman take the blame for the murder . the last mob bos and convince that batman have go nut and be murder his old compadres and offer the joker $ 5 and 000 and 000 to kill batman an offer that the joker gleefully accept . so and you have get batman battle the joker and the phantasm and and the gotham pd who want to bring him in for murder . on top of that and he get the emotional turmoil of relive his first love and the reason she leave him and the fact that maybe he tire of be batman and that he want a normal life but he still feel drive to work off the guilt of his parent death and the pressure of the vow he make to them . it all collides at the old gotham world fair in a spectacular animated fight sequence between batman and the joker and and the phantasm . this be an animated film with an unusual amount of emotional weight and resonance that be balance with a strong dose of action a gem all the way .