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List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $6.99 You Save: $2.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Special Edition • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 1966 DVD Release : 21 August, 2001 |
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Batman - The Movie description Holy camp site, Batman! After a fabulously successful season on TV, the campy comic book adventure hit the big screen, complete with painful puns, outrageous supervillains, and fights punctuated with word balloons sporting such onomatopoeic syllables as "Pow!," "Thud!," and "Blammo!" Adam West's wooden Batman is the cowled vigilante alter ego of straig ... review details |
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| Noted ESPN columnist Bill Simmons has used the phrase/concept "Unintentional Comedy Scale" in many of his articles on sports. The idea translates especially well here, as Adam West puts on a legendary performance unlike anything Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, or Christian Bale ever did. I would say that this movie rates 10/10 on the Unintentional Comedy Scale. Connoisseurs of visible onomatopoeia and absurd riddles (and, lest we forget, "lovers of escapism") will have to slacken their belts after this feast.
Adam West is an out-of-shape terror-in-tights who delivers a masterful performance; he is very believable as a wooden, all-business Batman and as swingin' Bruce Wayne. Burt Ward deserves credit for being so comfortable running around in green panties for half the movie, and the "rogues gallery" of villains are tremendous. Lee Merriwether filled in brilliantly for Julie Newmar as Catwoman, Cesar Romero and Frank Gorshin are at their best as the zany Joker and Riddler, and anyone who saw Burgess Meredith in Rocky before watching this movie... well, I don't know what they'll think. For your pleasure, here are some quotes from the movie (courtesy of IMDB.com): Robin: "HOLY POLARIS!" Robin: "Holy marathon! I'm getting a stitch, Batman!" Batman: "Let's hope that it's a stitch in time, Robin, that saves nine - The nine members of the United World Security Council. Come on." Commissioner Gordon (reading): "What weighs six ounces, sits in a tree and is very dangerous?" Robin: "A sparrow with a machine gun!" Commissioner Gordon (seriously considering this): "Yes, of course." Batman: "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb!" "BIFF!" You can already tell how good it is. The whole DVD package is nice stuff, though. The movie itself is remastered well, the Batmobile feature is pretty snazzy, and the commentary by Adam and Burt is great-- as other reviewers have said, they still have a great chemistry, and they definitely don't take the movie very seriously either (which is OK, no one really should). The only thing missing were bloopers, but they would have (of course) been extremely difficult to excavate from the Fox vault. The movie is cheap, buy it somewhere! This Oscar-worthy prize will soon find it's way into your regular cinematic rotation. |
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