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Awesome Movie

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

The Batman is basically a show with all flash and not nearly enough pizazz to it; the writing's repetitive, the voice-acting's respectable at best but not entirely suiting for some of the characters and the animation doesn't even compare to Batman: The Animated Series (Batman: T.A.S.). Considering DC's great animation track-record, this is one of the few noticeable blemishes on the company's overall filmography.Sure it LOOKS nice here and there, but the animation's simplistic look basically informs you early on that the writing is also going to be similarly weak as well. It's disappointing because you'd expect so much better from the likes of Batman, especially in the world of animation. There's nothing really subversive about the show, the music's forgettable and the direction is weak. While Kevin Michael Richardson does a decent Joker, his performance is hindered by being out-of-place in the context and aesthetic the show sets for itself, which is to be a kid-friendlier yet edgy-but-not-so-much kind of superhero show.As a diehard Batman fan I don't recommend this. As a television watcher I think this show doesn't hold a candle to its CLASSIC predecessor. I'm sorry if I offended anyone who read this all the way through, but I can't really forgive the show for its inherent shortcomings that should never have been a problem in the first place.

Awful re-imagining of Batman. The top reasons are... 1. Completely Miscast Voice ActorsWhile some if not most of the Voice Actors in this are great on separate jobs, EVERYONE is mis-cast in this thing. They have Tom Kenny (Sponge Bob Squarepants) as some out of breath Penguin, Kevin Michael Richardson as some deep-voiced, barefoot, dread-locked Joker, Robert Englund as The Riddler, etc. (Although it is nice they have Ron Pearlman, who's familiar with Batman-related work, aka "clayface") 2. The Art.They try to be dark, which to some extent you SHOULD for anything Batman related, but the color choices don't match, don't blend, etc. The STYLE of art (character design, form etc) is like some cheap "Adventures of Jackie Chan" knockoff combined with some poor-man's version of American anime. What the F*ck. There's literally no style whatsoever.This show was basically a cheap ploy for bucks, all masquerading as entertainment. Just. The. Worst.

AS FAR AS adaptations of Super Heroes from the Comics to the screen is concerned, no one is more severe a critic than are we. Any deviation from long established comics "facts" are looked upon as being unacceptable. (Death to the Revisionists!)FOR EXAMPLE, TAKE the treatment of the Joker in both BATMAN (1989) and in THE DARK KNIGHT (2008). In the first Michael Keaton outing, what would have been an ideal treatment of the character, was turned into a heretical foray into the realm of the untrue. THEIR HANDDLING OF the character went haywire with the deviant storyline in which Jack Napier,* the Joker, was the killer of Bruce Wayne's parents. Forb good measure, they had the Joker dead at film's end.THE PRODUCTION COMPANY that gave us the DARK KNIOGHT was no better; turning the Joker into some sort of grimy, grubby and commonplace psychotic killer. And, if this wasn't enough, for good measure they also killed him at this end, also. It seems that Joker is the Batman Franchise's answer to that kid on SOUTH PARK; who dies in every episode. (But we digress!)WE FIND THAT this animated TV series, THE BATMAN (2004-08) is the finest example of making comics panels come to life and move, talk, interact; that is for television. It's inherent craftsmanship is deep, extending to all aspects. The rendering of the dark panel look and mood combine with a high level of animation that makes it a serious rival to the Max Fleischer produced SUPERMAN Cartoon Series of the 1940's. (No small feat that!)ONCE AGAIN, THE careful attention to making the night the element of operation that Batman thrived in. This is one aspect of the feature that had been largely abandoned in the comics; forgetting that in the early days, Batman owed an ancestral debt to the pulp & radio character, THE SHADOW. IN MAKING GOOD use of the extensive roster of characters accumulated over the years, the production company assured the series of conforming with the comics storyline. Prominently featured also were Dick Grayson/Robin, Barbara Gordon/Batgirl, Commissioner Gordon and Alfred the Butler.A LARGE NUMBER OF voice actors were used in bringing life to the multitude of master criminals; who provided the wrong doings in Gotham. Why, the producers even had an under-appreciated, though highly talented actor cast as Gotham City's Mayor. (Who is he? Why he's none other than ADAM WEST!)NOTE: * We commend the production team for the story; which combined elements of the very first Joker story in the comics as well as the later story of Joker's origin. They even gave the character something he hadn't had before, a REAL NAME!

THE BATMAN: is a representation of the caped crusader that we love, the setting of this show is way too different than what we are used to, with a great art style, superior action, terrific voice cast; this show cant be bad, if you are asking where did the plot go?, well, here it is ; the show started a little weak, because it focuses a lot on the gadgets, vehicles and leaves the nice detective work of the dark knight that we always loved, and that's because batman is still young and not at his full strength or intelligence ( that's in the about first 7 episodes),then the show started impressing me with a lot of nice themes and quotations by either Alfred or batman or other guys, and then, the show develops and develops like no show i have ever seen, the incomplete batman that we saw in the beginning becomes a more wise aware of whats going on, the writers showed how batman develops in a fantastic and terrific way when the maniacs and high class villains showed up , it looks like the writers wanted batman to look weak and then made him cooler while developing, (when the batman becomes better the show becomes better ), which makes it a highlighted batman presentation in the batman history and unfortunately, people will not notice that until they watch the entire show to notice the real thing that's going on, all in all : is it better than batman the animated series? not really, but that won't make it one of the nicest presentations of batman i have ever seen.