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The premise of this movie is a simple one, high school age babysitters that become sexually involved with the fathers of their charges. It begins with a new hire that turns out to be an excellent sitter with many features of a maid, even to the point of scrubbing the kitchen floor. After a few virtual dance moves and some innuendo, the father and the sitter become sexually involved.

This quickly expands out into what is in essence a call girl ring where several girls at the high school are recruited to become sitters with benefits. It goes on for some time until there are just too many people involved, and the secrets cannot be kept, even from these incredibly ignorant mothers. There is even an extended scene where one of the fathers joins in a major vandalism of the high school.

The premises are so absurd that the movie is quite boring. There are a few scenes where the sitter and the father engages in some genuine interpersonal dialog, but not enough to make it interesting. About one-third through the movie I was convinced that there would be a rash of scenes of bare chested girls in an attempt to save the movie from terminal idiocy. To the credit of the producers, they did not do that.

With simple interactions and an extremely unworkable plot, this movie fails to generate even the slightest interest. I had to watch it in 15 minute segments in order to male it to the end.

While it is difficult to wrap your mind around the fact that over a million people were killed in Auschwitz in a few years, the most amazing aspect of this video was the meetings between the planners. When I was a programmer, we had meetings where we decided how we were going to solve functionality parameters. Accurate dramatic recreations of the meetings between the high ranking members of the SS have them taking the same approach to the planning of the killing of over a million people. They discussed the killing of innocent people as if it were a basic business logistics problem.

To give them their macabre due, the German designers of the death camps were very efficient in their work. The complexity of the capture and delivery of a million people spread out across an entire continent is not to be underestimated. Jobs in the camps ran the gamut from those that did the killing to those that simply counted the money and valuables confiscated from the victims.

One very unusual point made that I had been previously unaware of was that the leaders of the SS tried to make a deal with the Allies. The leaders of the SS were willing to trade approximately one million Hungarian Jews for 10,000 military trucks. While this major deal was never made, it did point out that it was at least possible for the Allies to have saved the lives of some that were killed.

Murder on an industrial scale was an incredible event and the evidence of it taking place is overwhelming and somewhat difficult to face. In this video that is a combination of historical photos, interviews with survivors and dramatic reenactments, the viewer is forced to face the reality of a modern industrial state operating an effective mass murder machine.

I must lead off by saying that I am in general not a fan of the animated superhero movie. It always seems that the producers tried to get by with reused storylines, the cheapest possible animation and far too simplistic dialog. That is not the case here.

While Batman is a well-used character with a long history, in this case there is a unique and interesting plot twist. There is an organization of powerful and extremely skilled ninja types with a boy (Damian) as their most skilled trainee. When this organization is attacked by another group, the boy is whisked away by his mother. With their lives on the line, she seeks help from the boy's father, Bruce Wayne or Batman.

The story expands as Damian proves to be headstrong and difficult to control, doing all he can to track down and kill Deathstroke, the man behind the attack. The viewer is witness to the development of another Robin as the newest version of the dynamic duo is developed.

The only potential weakness is the emphasis on the super ninja personas. However, if you are a fan of that particular plot device, then there is no weakness. I generally question a reliance on the super ninja plot device, for this dismisses the more cerebral aspects of personal warfare. However, I did find myself generating some muscle tension during the most significant one-on-one fight scenes.