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Summary: The Best batman movie yet!
Review: Unlike the Tim Burton creepshows, or the crowded Schumacher campfests, this Movie is about Batman..AND Bruce Wayne. Batman's alter ego is as central to the story as his crimefighting persona, and by stripping away the extras (Robin, Batgirl, etc) this move succeeds at showcasing Bruce Wayne. You'll see a human behind the mask, which makes his vigilante actvities much more incredible. Gone are Burton's scenes of Batman killing/maiming/allowing crooks to die, and schumachers corny zooms and gimmicks are replaced by solid storytelling. While the identidy of the Phantasm may not come as a great suprise, it will be an enjoyable ride. This movie ties in elements from the comic book (Year One and Year two) and does them justice far better than previous attempts. If this DVD featured extras besides the trailer and scene selection, I would have given it a 5. There are no storyboards, isolated scores, commentaries,or DVD rom features.
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Summary: The Best Animated Batman Film Ever!
Review: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is such an awesome movie. The animation is great, the story line is great, sound effects everything. You couldn't buy a better batman movie then this. And for all of you Batman Beyond fans, make sure to check out Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker coming to you on October 24th, 2000. That should be a great movie from what I hear. Well, all I can leave you with is this ... Buy Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. Amazon has it for a great price and you won't be wasteing your money!
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Summary: Best Animated Batman Feature Ever
Review: For all of you Batman Enthusiasts, like myself, This is for you. The quality of the DVD takes you back to when you first saw it in theaters. If you never saw it, well then you are in for a treat! Wonderfull animation and voices by Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamil. A must have for any animation or Batman fan! Better than any of the live action Batman films... well maybe not Tim Burton's. But you'll love this one!
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Summary: Great but not at the same level as Batman or Batman Returns
Review: Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm is the first movie of the animated series. (Contrary to what most people believe, the animated series' batman theme was composed by Danny Elfman). Shirley Walker's use of the choir for the Main Title and Batman's theme was suprisinly good, a new element for the Batman Theme. The music for phantasm, unfortunately, sounds like a cliche from old horror films. Shirley Walker's composing style is dark and Elfman like, but it doesn't match at all Elfman's gothic style. Unlike the movie, Batman, batman's theme doesn't show up much. If you are a TRUE Batman fan, I suggest that you get this soundtrack. If you don't, you probably won't like it.
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Summary: Poor Story and even Poorer voice dialog.
Review: The Phantasm Character turns out to be a two dimsnional villian, not in league with Batman's more formitable foes like the Joker or Ra Shal Gul. The script is somewhat incoherent and leads to the most disapointing climax any animated movie ever had. What were they trying to do here. It really is over-rated garbage.
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Summary: A worthy addition to the Batman Name
Review: What can I say? I was pleasantly suprised by how good this film was. It truely is one of the best of the Batman Films. It is actiony, emotional, and shockingly suspensful, you actually care for the cartoon characters! The score is masterfull and the voice talents are excellent. The animation is poor in places, the flashbacks grow tedious after a while and its pretty short. Those are really the only debits. All in All, a great buy.
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Summary: Disappointing, perhaps my expectations were too high
Review: I was really looking forward to a two minute, full orchestra rendition of Walkers Batman theme, I got only a one and a half minute choral rendition. That disappointed me. However it IS brilliant and worth the fourteen bucks. If you see the movie (I did after I bought the CD) you will enjoy the soundtrack much more.
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Summary: beatiful dark film
Review: This film is a great one after the horrible live-action films of batman this bring something new to the table.this wonderful ANIMATION film is dark romantic and really should not be intended for kids it has a deep plot with a brilliant story i liked this film beacuse of the voice acting and writing and mature plot and its one of the very few american animated films i watched i mostley wath anime but the plaot is very thick and i loved the romance issue on it and the beatiful sound track and the ending song if you want a dark romantic film this is it
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Summary: What a ride!
Review: I sat down to watch this expecting a decent at best film, and hopful for a somewhere around good film. After all, this was just a video release, not in theaters; which usually doesn't produce more than a three star movie. What I got in Mask of the Phantasm was absoulutely jaw dropping. This movie rivals, and perhaps beats the live action Batman movies. This movie truly achieved a cinamatic experience. Without a doubt, this is one of the best, if not the best, video only releases ever! This isn't just some brainless action cartoon. It features a spectacular plot that is full of surprises, and a story that makes you think, but of course, plenty of exciting action too. I particularly like how we see the whole back story as to how Bruce Wayne became the infamous Batman. If you though SubZero was good, wait until you see this! If your a fan of Live action Batman, or Batman of ANY type, I can't recomend this movie enough. Really, it's a great film even if you couldn't care less about Batman.
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Summary: A good movie, but no special features on the DVD
Review: This is DVD contains no special features, merely a trailer for the film. This makes buying the video as good an idea as buying the DVD. The movie isn't bad. A new masked figure, looking somewhat like the reaper in Batman: Year One, is killing of gangsters in Gotham. At the same time Bruce Waynes old girlfriend arrives. When the gangsters asks help from the Joker, everything starts to happen at once. Interesting thing is that the Jokers origin story seems more based on the Nack Nicholson Batman-story (with Joker as a gangster before, well, himself) rather than the one in the comic books, as best told in The Killing Joke. This film is quite brutal with some very scary scenes. The Joker is at his worst, like a madly laughing clown from hell. This is why I wouldn't recommend this movie for small children, at least not without their parents. People that say Comics are for children don't know the half of it. I recommend this movie for every Batman fan. See it as a way to get deeper into his character than the ordinary animated series has time for.
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