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A Major Disappointment

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

I grew up with Batman: The Animated Series, and this, the follow up. While I never saw as much of this as I did the Batman TAS, I have recently begun watching both of them. In the end I have to say The New Batman Adventures don't quite hold up. As noted earlier, batman's character is much darker, normally I would let this slide but it reaches a ridiculous point. The animosity between batman and Robin, Dick Grayson and Bruce Wayne seems to have come out of nowhere, and while you see an episode explaining this, it doesn't quite hold up, despite the episode that was supposed to explain it. I found myself thinking, Batman wouldn't interrogate a thug in his own living room inf front of his wife and young son. It annoyed me to no end. The way that Bruce Wayne is portrayed annoys me. He is no longer the tortured soul. He's just moody. Where you may have once sympathized with him, you no longer feel the same level of sympathy. One of the biggest issues I have is with the animation. I just don't like it. They use the intro sequence from TAS but feature none of the animation. One of the things that I absolutely hate is the new Batmobile. Its ugly. I love the horribly impractically long Batmobile of the animated series, the one USED IN THE OPENING CREDITS which is nowhere to be seen. Additionally all of the characters just seem uglier with the new animation, less human. Especially the Villains, the Joker, Mad Hatter, Killer Croc, Mr. Freeze and the Ventriloquist/Scarface in particular are just ugly. I liked the way they did Scarecrow in this, he reminded me of the art style of Mike Mignola, but it felt out of place here. Also Catwoman is just wrong seriously wrong her whole design is awful. On the plus side, I enjoyed most, if not all of the stories in here, except for the fight sequences where it seemed Batman's sidekicks were just sort of shoe horned into the story for those scenes. A great deal of the stories were amazing and went on to further explore the batman universe quite nicely. Additionally the voice actors were kept. And, as odd as it may sound I liked the fact that they showed blood. It seems odd, I know but it was a nice touch and reminded me of the Mask of the Phantasm, an amazing Batman TAS movie. The blood showed that these fights you see episode after episode have an effect. Pros: Good Stories, Amazing voice acting.Cons: Shoehorned-in sidekicks, bad animation style across the board, a new ugly bat mobile, inexplicable personality shifts. Animation and art style used in the opening credits appears no where in the show. Watch this, its better than most modern cartoons, but watch TAS first.

Being a huge Batman fan, and a huge fan of B:TAS, You have to be a fan of TNBA. But although it's a good series, it doesn't match the sheer brilliance of the original.I like the look of this show. It's certainly a lot smoother, and I love the red night background that they used. However, I'm not a big fan of the big character changes. The only exception being Batman himself. He looked pretty cool. The Joker, Penguin, Killer Croc, and even to a degree The Scarecrow, I feel they didn't really need a re-vamp as they looked perfect as they did back in the original. One of the problems I have with the series. And The Riddler, they changed everything about him yet never even had a Riddler episode, which disappoints me, as he is one of the more interesting villains.But having said all that, some of the episodes are fantastic, and make up for some of the problems with the series, "Over the Edge", "Sins of the Father", "Cold Comfort", "Legends of the Dark Knight", "Mad Love", to name a few. Furthermore, the character of Nightwing is really well portrayed, and really shines in the episode "Old Wounds".To sum up, this series has more not-so-good episodes than BTAS, but as mentioned previously, there are few stand-out episodes which at least match the brilliance of the original. Which sums the show up, not as good as the predecessor by a long shot, but is still an essential for any Bat-fan.

Oh where, oh where is Batman...I loved Batman's portrayal in the 1992 animation and in JL/U, but here we hardly see anything of the conflict/problems of being Batman and Bruce Wayne.And this Tim version of Robin has to be one of the most annoying sidekicks ever. They're trying way to hard to make him cool to ten year olds and his presence has made the show virtually unwatchable. The show seems to think we're more interested in him than Batman.Also, as others have said, I don't believe Batman would let such a little kid help (and with so little training).

Being a long time fan of the Dark Knight,I must admit this(and BTAS) are probably the most superb representation of the dark knight outside of the comics.This has everything.Excellent plots,great casting,and great animation.This is probably the greatest cartoon ever made.I have looked through a great many cartoons and haven't found anything near as great as this!A must see!The plots(especially for ones like Cold Comfort and Mad Love)are particularly excellent!The cast(most especially Micheal Ansara and Mark Hamill) terrific!The animation was very well done with a lot of atmospheric shots rather than just plain position.The storyboard artists really took their time!This is the best that Batman has to offer outside the comics!Highly recommended!