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Batman - The Movie

Batman - The Movie

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Dustin Y.
Review: Batman is the best movie ever!!!
It's my favorite of all time.
Adam West's my favorite celebrity of all time.
I wish that they would sell the sixites television show
on video and DVD so that I can get both of them all together.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Batman's the best movie ever!!
Review: Batman is my all-time favorite movie.
I've seen the television series on TV Land.
I used to watch the re-runs on the Family Channel
when I was little.
ZAP! POW! BAM! and BOOM!

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: bat-bore
Review: Oh dear,my mates will hate me for saying this but I had a really hard time sitting through this.I loved it when I was a kid but seeing it now I just found it way too tedious,boring and far too long.For die-hard fans only.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Holy Batmania
Review: The Beginning of the End.......

Off starts the second season with more gadgets and more guest stars but somehow this probably started to hurt the popularity of the show. It got into a rut, the plots became very similar, heres a breakdown of the plot,

1) Villain enters town
2) Gordon calls Batman
3) Batman and Robin go to the Commissioner's office
4) The duo go after the criminal
5) They get caught and put in a trap
6) By some incredible means they escape
7) They chase the villain
8) A fight with the bad guys
9) Justice prevails and off to prison the villains go

In the first season, everything was fresh and new but after a while, it became too predictable. They added a ton of huge guest stars the second season which did keep viewers coming back to a certain extent. Another reason the show slipped in the ratings had nothing to do with the actual show ! Other networks deciding that since Batman, a superhero, was a great hit, why not introduce their own version of a character in the new fall line up of 1966 ( remember, Batman came on in January before the regular fall release in September ). These shows included, Mr Terrific, Captain Nice, then the cartoons followed suit with no less than 6 super hero cartoons.
The American public was overloaded with Superpowers.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: "Santos superlativas, Batman!"
Review: I was a little kid when BATMAN was finding new life in reruns and I completely bought it. Since running into the show again (right now on cable's TVland), I've been rediscovering the hilarious camp humor and have been enjoying the fun all over again.

Whether you're a kid or an adult, you should enjoy the DVD of the BATMAN movie. The extras are fun (they've even included a Spanish trailer--hence the title of this review) and the commentary by Adam West and Burt Ward is funny and illuminating.
Howard Stern was right: "Forget those other guys, Adam West is the REAL Batman!"

I was initially disappointed that Julie Newmar wasn't involved--she will always be the hottest Catwoman Gotham City will ever see--but Lee Meriwether looks great in the cat suit (and her Russian is pretty good too).

Travel back to the 1960's, feel like a kid again, and find some new laughs: you can't ask for anymore than that!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Not as good as the TV show
Review: This movie was good, but not as good as the show. It's really cool that they use the Batmobile, the Batcopter, and the Batboat. The plot is confusing but you get it near the end. (At least for me) This movie is good enough to buy, but it's not as good as the TV show.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Silly fun
Review: This movie is outrageously hammy and silly, yet also very enjoyable. Adam West and Burt Ward are perfectly cast as Batman & Robin. The villains they face are also outrageous and funny. Overall a wild, but fun picture. The DVD picture quality is very good, the behind-the-scenes pictures are interesting, and best of all, the audio commentary from West and Ward is very informative.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: "Holly DVD's Batman!" "But they all have holes, Robin!"
Review: Thank your lucky stars, Bat-fans! Had Warner Bros. held the rights to the 60's Adam West series, we'd be seeing another bare-bones edition of a Batman movie, like with the four Burton/Schumacher films and almost all the animated films and episodes released thus far. However, Batman: The Movie still belongs to FOX, and as such they have given it a great special edition treatment. The print looks amazing for a thirty-some year-old print, but we also get featurettes, photo galleries, and a great commentary with Adam West and Burt Ward, the original dynamic duo themselves!

While I'm more of a fan of the serious, darker Batman portrayed in the cartoons, I still love what Adam West and Burt Ward did. They really made Batman into a permanent cultural icon, and it's sad they both paid the ultimate price by being typecast for the rest of their careers. Some would blame the 60's series for giving people the mindset that all comic-book adaptations have to be campy, but that's only seeing one side of the bat-coin. Without the 60's series, there wouldn't have been the exposure needed to generate mass interest in the characters, and Batman wouldn't have the popularity he does today.

That said, I have mixed-feelings about this movie. While I like the gags invidiually (the shark and the bomb are classics in particular), as a whole the movie can get long and tedious sometimes. The plot was obviously written as an excuse to give us the greatest villains ever along with hilarious gags, but it plods along until something funny happens. Also, the infamous POW, WHACK, and WHAM don't appear till the final battle scene.

Still Batman: The Movie is a great piece of bat-history. I like the DVD because it contains great extras and lets me jump to the best gags without going though the whole movie. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to get rid of a bomb...

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: DROP DEAD HILARIOUS!
Review: Long before there was The Dark Knight, there was a Caped Crusaider. Enter the 1960's batman. This movie is so bad, you'll wet yourself with laughter! The dialouge, costumes, special effects and plot are all lame, but not the bad, heartwrenching lame, but the good, fall-from-your-chair-laughing "I can't belive how dumb this is!" lame. I first saw this flick when I was about 10 years old, and a die hard batman fan. I was walking through my local library, and I noticed on a shelf the wacky, brightly colored cover of this movie. I stopped, stared at it and laughed, and then, out of pure curiousity, got my mom to borrow it. Right from the start, it was non-stop laughs for me and my siblings! A definate must-see for any Batfan, or even someone just looking for a good laugh!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Classic fun!
Review: You know, some Batman fans have savaged the 1960s series and movie. Oh, Batman's not grim or borderline crazy. Well guess what? There was a time when the comic book Batman was not grim and gritty.

This movie is loads of fun. Writer Chipp Kidd once noted how differently adults and kids view the 1960s Batman. As a 30-something, I now chuckle at lines like "It's a good thing we had the Bat-shark-repellent" or "It's a good thing you spotted this giant foam rubber display!" But as a kid, I took the movie in earnest and thought "Wow! It really is a good thing they brought along the Bat-repellent!"

It plays as superhero action/fun for kids, and campy tongue-in-cheek fun for the adults. Teenagers might not be caught up in the action or appreciate the gags.

The movie features 4 villains. Gorshin's Riddler is the best of them.

The DVD comes with an enjoyable commentary track by Adam "Batman" West and Burt "Robin" Ward, a couple of featurettes, trailers, etc. A surprisingly good package given the film.

"Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb!" Classic.


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