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Batman: The Movie Review Dvd.net
"Holy caped crusader criminal conundrums! The Dynamic Duo hit the big screen in this movie which followed on from the first series of the television show. Originally planned to precede the TV series, it ended up being made after a wave of first season success, but served overseas audiences well as an introduction to the fabulously campy and absurd world of Gotham City, its super hero Batman (Adam West), his young offsider Robin (Burt Ward) and the fiendish phalanx of fanciful felons they?re faced with foiling on alarmingly regular occasions. And when you have the big screen, and a bigger budget, to play with, why not up the stakes a bit? Our masked heroes aren?t simply faced with one nefarious ne?er-do-well here, as four of Gotham?s most mischievious mayhem-makers team up as a united underworld. There?s the cigarette holder chomping Penguin (Burgess Meredith), the maniacally grinning Joker (Cesar Romero), the conundrum coining Riddler (Frank Gorshon) and she who seemed to be every little boy?s fantasy, the fabulously feminine feline-like Catwoman (played here by Lee Meriwether, as the first TV Catwoman, Julie Newmar, was busy making a film at the time). "Penguin, Joker, Riddler and Catwoman too?

Some of the angles of that rectangle is (sic) too monstrous to contemplate..." After a (hilarious) run-in with a rather rubbery exploding shark, our courageous warriors against crime are faced with a missing yacht, its missing Commodore Schmidlapp and its missing cargo ? a device which totally dehydrates whatever it happens to be pointed at. Aim it at a human and they turn to a pile of dust ? just add water and they reappear. Now, this just could be a handy little doohickie in the hands of a quartet intent on seeking that inevitable old chestnut of world domination now, couldn?t it? Especially if they are able to infiltrate the United World Security Council in New York. But first, the annihilation of a certain bat-like man is on the agenda and so the plot is hatched, kidnap millionaire Bruce Wayne with the help of Catwoman?s seductive ways and subsequently lead Batman to the rescue... hmm, now we all know what?s amiss with this plan, don?t we? Armed with all manner of devilishly clever toys, all labelled clearly in a Letraset frenzy and with the prerequisite ?Bat? prefix ? from the big and mobile like the Batmobile, Batcopter and Batboat to the more portable such as the Batrope, Batladder and a personal fave, the Batarang ? the Dynamic Duo will surely save the world yet again from falling into the hands/claws of their nemeses, won?t they? After all, as well as being armed with all of those delightful toys they do have those super secret weapons up their tights-legs ? more ?POW!?s, ?WHAP!?s, ?THWACK!?s, ?BIFF!?s, ?ZWAP!?s and even ?BAP!?s than you could poke a freaking out spell checker at google.com"
Source: dvd.net