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Summary: Mark Hamill is superb as the Joker!
Review: This movie is great!! I loved it!! The clash between Wayne and Kent is unique! However, the biggest credit of all goes to Hamill, who is superb as the Joker!! With the heroes fighting among themselves, who is to stop the Joker from causing trouble? No one. Hamill is the best and there is no comparison!!
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Summary: Batman and Superman together
Review: This story of Batman working with Superman is wonderfully written and plotted out. Not only do Batman and Superman work together, but the Joker and Lex Luthor also put their heads together. It is fun to watch the two major crimefighters with their uneasy friendship and on top of that, Bruce Wayne tries to steal Lois Lane from Clark. This story was part of a three part Superman-Batman Adventures episode and I do hope that the entire Superman animated Series will eventually be put on DVD.
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Summary: Good, but what happened to the Joker??????
Review: This was a good movie for the fans of Batman and Superman, but I think that only those fans will enjoy it. I thought I would voice my comment on this, but I would ask you Batman animated fans if you like the way the Joker is now animated, personally I HATE IT!!! he looks terrible, when I put in the Batman Superman video I hoped that the cover to the VHS copy was decieving me, but to my shock I found that the Joker lokes like a badly sharpened pencil. The way the Joker used to look was peeked in the Batman movie "Mask of the Phantasm" he looked wonderful, he looked like a real human being, but now he just looks incredibly stupid! thank goodness they didn't change Mark Hamill from doing the voice he's great!! In all the action in this show is great, but I'm still recovering from the shock of seeing my favorite villian mangled.
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Summary: Nightwing's Review
Review: This was a great movie. This movie is a must have for all Batman/Superman fans. Having Batman and Superman team up was great, it added fun and adventure to the movie. Having Bruce Wayne go for Lois and Clark being jealous was good. Everything about this movie was good. the voice actors, animations, sounds and the script were great. Hopefuly one day a live action Batman/Superman movie will hit the big screen.
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Summary: One Super Duo
Review: Two of the greatest superheroes join forces in the pleasing animated tale "The Batman Superman Movie". When the Joker and Lex Luther form an alliance to destroy the "Man of Steel", Batman comes to Superman's aid and together they will bring their enemies to justice. Forget "Batman and Robin" and "Lois and Clark". Comic-book fans have awaited for this highly-anticipated crossover and we'll be pleased in this animated movie. The storyline is simple but well-paced. The voice cast includes Tim Daly, Dana Delany, Clancy Brown, Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill as the Joker. This animated adventure also features pleasing comic book action and some clever dialogue. With a fine storyline and well-developed characters, "The Batman Superman Movie" earns a "B".
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Summary: The Joke's on you!
Review: Um...where can I start? This started off as a three part story on 'The Batman/Superman Adventures' series and as a result is only an hour long, which it suffers from, as you want a showdown of the two greatest heroes to last much longer.
Aaannnyyyway, Mark Hamill once again voices the Joker, and is superb as always. His reaction to Superman's resistance to Kryptonite is classic, and you only wish the series hadn't finished after this movie. The rest of the voice acting is great although Lois did sound a tad like Catwoman, but you can forgive that. The ending leaves the Joker's fate in question, and you want a new movie or series to set up 'Batman Beyond (or the really really stupid Batman of the Future as its known over here in the UK): Return of the Joker, which showcases his demise. Come on WB! We want a new movie or series! I can't recommend it enough and if you're a fan and don't have it, now that it's on DVD you have no excuse.
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Summary: Great Movie for both young and young at heart!
Review: Well done! My kids like the movie and as an adult I enjoyed the underlying humor that rides along with the script. If you like action and cartoons this is a good one that you'll want to watch again and again.
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Summary: ON DVD April 23, 2002!!
Review: With the news that WB has decided to release the original Batman animated episodes, SubZero, World's Finest, and ROTJ Uncut, it seemed only right to revisit The Batman Superman Movie, AKA World's Finest. This movie was originally three episodes of the animated Superman series, and featured the first meeting of Batman and Superman. The team-up was so well-recieved that the creators later featured teamups between Superman and Robin, Superman and Green Lantern, and a host of others.I'll be the first to admit that when I heard about Batman and Superman in the same episode, I wasn't thrilled. Up until that point I was strictly a Batman fan, and Batman's world seemed to be such a contrast of Superman's that I failed to see how any team-up could work. I was also reminded of the cheesy 'Superfriends' from the 70's and 80's. What annoyed me the most, however, was that the creators seemed to have altered they way they animated the new Batman series just so they could fit Batman and Superman together without making it seem awkward. Most fans tend to agree that the original 'dark-deco' style is superior to the new one. While I wasn't too impressed with The Batman Superman Movie the first time I watched it, it's grown on me and I've come to love it as much as the other Batman movies. The creators (Paul Dini and Bruce Timm) were really careful to balance the two superheroes. Superman is physically superior and the story takes place on his home turf, but Batman has the toys and the knowledge of how Joker thinks. When you watch their initial meeting and how each discovers the others' identity, you'll realize that each can hold their own, and the way they each overcome obstacles serves as a good character study of the two heroes. The villains are equally compelling and balanced as well. Luthor has the resources and the intelligence, while Joker has the insanity needed to start their plan in motion. Even moreso than Batman and Superman, we never really think of these two villians teaming up in a buddy-buddy fashion; It's more like a symbiosis, and the tension between Joker and Lex adds another plot twist, as the Joker's insanity is destroying LexCorp property and putting Luthor under suspicion. There is an ample amount of violence here as well. Batman and Superman were one of the last cartoon series' to have characters fire real guns (as opposed to sci-fi-ish laser pistols). Besides the heightened realism from actual gunplay, there are several explosions and scenes of destruction, and some of what the Joker does is really twisted (though not as twisted as ROTJ). With this movie coming to DVD April 23, 2002, all fans should pick up a copy. The disc has a few extra features (though nothing truly substantial), but the movie is great fun, and serves as a prelude to Cartoon Network's Justice League.
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Summary: Great Mini-Series
Review: WORLD'S FINEST originally aired on the Batman Superman Adventures as a three-part miniseries. As always expected, Bruce Timm and Paul Dini deliver first-rate production and screenwriting for this movie. Kevin Conroy once again delivers a superlative performance as the Dark Knight. The antagonism and reluctant team up of Batman and Superman is very credible and true to each superhero's character. My favorite events must be the way each superhero uncovers the other's identity, along with the animosity over Lois Lane's affections. While great, this storyline is perhaps not as riveting as some of the other Animated features, yet it is great to see The Last Son of Krypton and the Dark Detective battle the Prince of Knaves and The Very Rich Bald Guy. Some of the best scenes include Batman's awesome gadgetry (On flight: "When in Rome...") and the battle with the robots. A great comic scene is watching Joker and Lex negotiate as Mercy and Harley Quinn duke it out in the background. On the whole, I must say this is a great film for every fan of Batman and Superman, and for all lovers of first-rate animation.
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Summary: No Love Lost at First Meeting
Review: Worthwhile use of the "World's Finest" title for this first animated meeting between the Bat and the Big Blue Cheese. (For many years, the comic titled "World's Finest"'s lead story every month was a Batman/Superman team-up, in an era when hero's team-ups were not common) Batman and Superman's first meeting, herein portrayed, is rather nice, especially because they really just don't like each other a heck of a lot. Especially because Lois Lane falls hard for Bruce Wayne. Their mutual discovery of secret identities plays nicely on the two characters' strong points, with Superman using his superpowers and Batman demonstrating why he's the world's greatest detective. Harley Quinn's running feud with Luthor's female bodyguard/chauffeur, Mercy, is one of the high points. The Joker's "Dance of Death" over the fallen Superman, adding shocks from his super-charged handbuzzer to Big Blue's suffering in his kryptonite death trap is rather chilling; in this and a few elements of violence this production (originally aired in prime-time, and then as three episodes of the television series) goes a bit beyond what the afternoon TV series can usually portray, and the Mark Hamill-voiced Joker is truly scary. The Joker's raving laughter as he (apparently) goes to his death as a result of one of his own traps gone wrong is both chilling and in character. (Harley Quinn, on the other hand, is just a *bit* too broadly portrayed.) (There is, by the way a comicbook/"graphic novel" adaptation of this material -- now sadly out of print. While it doesn't bring much new, it's a good counterpoint to this film, as it gives alternate, slightly more "adult" views on some things -- if you have one, you really need the other.) One question -- does Lois Lane have a trust fund or something? Otherwise, how does she afford that Simply Incredible apartment on a mere reporter's salary? Also -- a couple of scenes, notably the lab where the robots are kept and where Superman fights them, and Superman straining to (just barely) prevent a huge aircraft from crashing into buildings strongly suggest deliberate homages to the old Fleischer Bros "Superman" cartoons, specifically to "Metal Monsters" and "Japoteurs".
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