Memorable, crazy movie

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

This is the second Adam West animated feature following Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders(2016). This animated feature shows In Loving Memory Of Adam West(1928-2017) at the end of the end-credits.Adam West is the first actor to ever play the role of Batman in a live action TV series. Before Christian Bale, George Clooney, Val Kilmer, and Michael Keaton - Adam West played the original Batman during 1966-1968.West acted along with fellow actors Burt Ward who played Robin, Cesar Romano as The Joker, Burgess Meredith as The Penguin, Frank Gorshin as The Riddler, Lee Meriwether as Catwoman(later played by Julie Newmar) and Alan Napier as Alfred Pennyworth Batman's personal butler and friend who keeps Batman's identity a secret along with Commissioner Gordon played by Neil Hamilton.Plot: Batman and Robin are invited to a top-secret demonstration hosted by Professor Hugo Strange and his assistant Dr. Harleen Quinzel that may eventually change the future of Gotham forever. Along the way, Batman takes a stop at Gotham State Penitentiary to visit Catwoman (whose suicide attempt from the first movie somehow failed) to give her a book on poetry by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This is something to keep her occupied for the next 36 months of her life until she is let out of prison for good. At the laboratory, they meet district attorney and Bruce Wayne's ally in the war against crime Harvey Dent who is famous for having stopped a coin counterfeit while keeping a two faced quarter as a souvenir from the case.Hugo Strange believes that good and evil are all but one-sided and has created an "Evil Extractor" to which the volunteering criminals Joker, Penguin, Riddler, Egghead, and Mr. Freeze, will be purified of their corruption. Batman bluffs it off, saying that there are no easy fixes to the straight and narrow path, but Strange conducts his experiment anyway, despite the fact that it will make the jobs of Batman, Robin and Harvey obsolete. All goes well until the Joker entices his compatriots to overload the machine....Verdict: if you are fond of corny 60's style dialogue be my guest- my personal experience tells me after watching this one till the end, my brain turned into a jelly doughnut.You want to watch better Batman animated movies? Have a look at these: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm(1993), The Batman Superman Movie: World's Finest(1997), The Batman vs. Dracula(2005), Superman/Batman: Public Enemies(2009), Batman: Under the Red Hood(2010), Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 1(2012), Batman Unlimited: Mechs vs. Mutants(2016).Thanks for reading my review. Live a long and happy life and prosper.

If you like your modern animated Batman as portrayed by Kevin Conroy or the live action Christian Bale version, you are probably not going to like this. The Classic Batman was great fun for kids and could be enjoyed by older people in a truly campy way. This animated film and the last one captured the spirit of the old series pretty well, with some campy in jokes like 'Any Minute Now" signs in a factory on fire, or "Sisters of Perpetual Irony" hospital. The movie casts the only classic Batman villain who didn't appear in the TV show, Two-Face (AKA Harvey Dent) because a mentally ill DA scarred by acid would be too gruesome for a kids show. He's played with Campy Charm by William Shatner, and drawn like Shatner looked in his Star Trek days. So Dr. Hugo Strange and Harley Quinn devise a machine to suck all the evil out of the supervillains of Gotham and put it in liquid form, only to have poor Harvey splashed by it and turning into Two- Face. There's some silly stuff with Batman's relationships with Catwoman, Robin and Dent here. Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hare are portrayed as boobs, which is a real discredit to the characters as they were played in the 1960's series. I think that a lot of reviewers are giving this extra stars because this will be the last thing we will ever see Adam West do. And yes, if you grew up with this series like I did, it's a sad passing.

This style of Batman movie just isn't for me. I remember having to claw my way to the end of "Return of the Caped Crusaders", and when I found out about this yesterday, I thought I'd have to do the same here. But it wasn't nearly as bad as the first one. Some of the cheesy jokes actually work, and the story isn't as stupid as the first one was, it even manages to get a little dark at times. I still wouldn't call it a good movie, but it's better than the one that came before it. I'm guessing that with the death of Adam West this year, they'll stop making these, and get back to the darker side of Batman that I love. This is good for the people who like the lighter side of Batman, not me.

We should feel very lucky to have 2 more depictions of the Caped Crusader 60's batman with Robin with their original voice actors, there will never be another person who can give that character life again. This movie was quite a way to go out to.If you liked the original series, this is a movie you need to see.Original fans of batman will remember his 60's series lacked two-face, but at the time there was a treatment for the character, it however was deemed to be too dark and graphic for the light hearted nature of the show at the time.This movie while inspired by that treatment, was actually inspired more by other stories including Hugo Strange's story about unmasking batman's identity and selling it to the highest bidder.The movie is filled with countless Easter eggs and classic villains. There is even an Easter egg with Hugo's assistant most comic fans will notice right off the top.The film keeps the light hearted nature to heart and never goes too dark, but it isn't above poking fun of itself through modern cynicism at times much like the last animated adaption. Again what you are left with is a Batman story that feels like it could have been a series of episodes. This was a good year for animated batman releases.