ANI-MOVIES, *The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is The Blood Of The Baboon Heart

After five years, Adult Swim finally decided to fund the ending to The Venture Bros. after its last season in 2018. This was part of an initiative to conclude a few Adult Swim titles that had been left unfinished such as Metalocalypse. Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick returned to close the lid on their action cartoon parody taking place few days after the original final TV episode. This would have been about 4-5 episodes long but was instead one long feature-length production.

Hank has gone missing after seeing Dean sleep with his girlfriend. Brock and OSI can't find him, so Dean goes to Dr. Orpheus to magically track down his delusional brother. Dr. Venture is planning on releasing a new convenience gadget called the Helperpod while The Monarch is forbidden from arching him until the little matter of the two of them being related is cleared up. Hank is being plagued by his inner demons, or at least various identities he's taken on including of course "The Bat", so he decides to find his real mother. After meeting up with Dermott, he goes to an animal reserve for super-science victims where he finds the woman he thought was his mother isn't at all. Meanwhile, a new collective of villains called ARCH has premiered being run by Mantilla who supposedly dated both Dr. Venture and The Monarch, and the main reason the The Monarch hates Dr. Venture so much. Mantilla sets up her whole organization to rip off Dr. Doom by launching the VenTech Tower into space along with Venture, Sgt. Hatred, Monarch, and 21, all while OSI tries to find a way to bring them down without blowing them all to kingdom come.

The movie has an elevated production value, even though not that much above what Astro Base Go was already doing back in the 2010s, a style that WB seems to have incorporated to their latest DC animated movies. The story gives a fitting topper to The Venture Bros. TV series, despite the fact that not all questions got answered. Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick are brilliant writers that unfortunately trolled their fans by just leaving some major characters and plotlines up in the air. The film is totally satisfying to anyone whose been riding this roller coaster since all the way back in the Golden Age of Adult Swim. The callbacks, pop culture references, and even vague character development makes a great last supper for the members of Team Venture.