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Batman - The Movie

Batman - The Movie

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: a simpler time for a simpler life........ones always Batman
Review: Holy time warp!!!!!!!! If one ever needs a caped crime fighter uts todays and the batman & robin of the 1960's could teach the Powers that be @ Warner Brothers that to have style and class and fight crime in broad daylight with a youthful side kicin a a cape and mask also takes us and nerve. great storey and plot who cares if the effects were crappy, In a time that we needed a hero and still do Adam West and burt ward delivers the goods!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: High cheese
Review: This is one of the cheesiest, campiest movies I've ever seen. The acting and dialouge and special effects were horrendous. The plot is also really lame and in the BAM POW SWING! fight scenes you can't help but roll your eyes. Did America consider this stuff great back then? I'm glad I grew up in the 80's and 90's!

So why the five-star review? Because dispite all its shortcomings, this movie is FUN! It's very entertaining and you can leave your brain at the front door. Just don't expect it to be serious and gothic like the 90's Batman.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A camp classic that brings back many fun childhood memories!
Review: I used to watch this movie religiously as a child and like the classic STAR TREK, it is still entertaining. My five year old godson loves it as well. For Bat-Fans, it is no dark knight, but is still very fun to watch. It also answers that age old question-"just how do they put on the costumes while sliding down the batpoles?" That answer alone is worth this video and is answered in the first five minutes. WHEN WILL THE ENTIRE TV SERIES BE RELEASED ON VIDEO???!!!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Batman Fights For Comedic Near-Perfection - And Succeeds
Review: I know, Batman purists still cringe at this blasphemy - turning Batman into a comedic character and doing likewise to his universe. As a fan of the 1990s Warner Brothers cartoons and all of their chilling, serious power, I understand those who condemn the William Dozier-produced campy series from the 1960s.

But I don't particularly care, for the series and this theatrical story from late August of 1966 bring out much-needed laughter. The feature film uses a larger budget and bigger production values than the show and also brings out some of the continuity's funniest moments. Adam West, Burt Ward, and The Rogue's Gallery Of Villains (Ceaser Romero's Joker, Frank Gorshin's Riddler, Burgess Meredith's Penguin, and Lee Meriwether subbing for Julie Newmar as Catwoman/Ms Kitka) engage in deliciously campy performances (I especially liked West's stunned cry that "The Batteries Are Dead!" in his reverse-polarizer device) amid nonstop visual puns (the superimposed comic-book descriptions of punches and blows; the discovery that a Navy submarine was sold to a P.N. Guin), clever action gags, and some genuinely surprising twists. The best twist comes when Bruce Wayne and Ms. Kitka are kidnapped; Bruce urges Kitka to find a switch on his watch that will summon Batman. The other villains grab Bruce and untie him to find the device, but it's just a setup; Bruce uses the opportunity to beat the heck out of the three mugs and make good his escape.

This in turn leads to the film's drop-dead funniest bit; returning to the boardwalk bar and grill where he was held, Batman finds a huge bomb, and runs himself ragged trying to find a safe place to dispose of it; everywhere there are nuns, necking couples, a hilariously idiotic band, ducklings, etc., which eventually drive Batman to mutter, "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb!" One is hard pressed to stop laughing.

Another genuinely surprising twist directly follows and is part of the film's main plot - the villains have seized a device than can "dehydrate" people into dust, and then rehydrate them. Five thugs are thus turned to dust and Penquin, disguised as Commodore Schmidlap, offers himself to Batman and Robin. Knowing he is the Penguin, they knock him out and take him to the Batcave. There he "gets a drink of water" - cover to fill the machine with water to rehydrate the thugs. The water used, however, is radioactive water used in the Batcave's nuclear pile, so when the five thugs are rehydrated, they disintegrate upon the slightest touch. Batman's comment on the foolishness of tampering with the laws of nature is genuinely moving. He then pretends that Penguin really is Commodore Schmidlap, hypnotized by the villains to attempt such an ambush; the sham is so Penguin will steal the Batmobile and lead our heroes to the real hideout and the real target of their criminal conspiracy.

To The Batcave! We've not a moment to lose in this terrifically funny superhero adventure!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This Batman Movie is Awesome
Review: This is my favorite Batman movie. The tv series was cool too. They need to put those on video. The real Batman is gothic and dark yet this movie is still better than all the others.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A must for any video collection .
Review: As with all my "Superman" movies, I ALSO have this in my video collection. This is the first 'Batman' feature film and it's VERY COOL. ABC-TV network had originally planned for the movie to be released before the debut of the tv series,but when they realised that many of their shows were not doing well in their time slots,they stopped production on the film until the end of the first season. Lee Meriwether is GREAT as 'Catwoman' [This is the ONLY appearance of Meriwether in the role. She DID NOT play the role in the series as many trivia books have stated] This film is a MUST HAVE for fans not only of 'Batman' of the tv series as well

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This movie has to be the greatest Super hero movie !
Review: This movie is the best. Even though it is old and cheap effects, it was the still great. I hope amazon will sell the 60's t.v. series. I'll buy every one of them.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A great BAD movie
Review: But that's what it was supposed to be, I guess. It was the TV version made for the wide screen, and TV in the sixties was B-A-D. This is not an attempt to be serious, and it shows. And what's wrong with that? The idea was to have fun, and this is fun. Just like a lot of B-movies, the poor attempts to be serious or scary are funny! That's the charm of this movie. It probably will appeal to little kids and adults who grew up with the '60s Batman series.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Ha ha! It's funny!
Review: This film was the dumbest thing since alien pops with cheese, but I loved it! "Wham! Bap! Zang!" were constantly being showed in combat scenes. Batman Forever was the best because it was seriouse (see my review on it), but this film (although stupid) is downright funny! Ha ha! This movie does not (or so it seems) even make an attempt to be serious. See it anyway and laugh you pants off!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Just Great!!
Review: I grew up with this less sinister Batman. I bought the video for my nephew for his 5th Birthday and he has watched it several times and loves it! I wish the old '60's series was available on video!


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