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Genre | Action & Adventure |
Format | Color, Widescreen, NTSC, Full Screen, Special Edition, Closed-captioned, DVD |
Contributor | Lee Meriwether, Neil Hamilton, Alan Napier, Madge Blake, Milton Frome, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Reginald Denny, Frank Gorshin, Stafford Repp, Burgess Meredith, Burt Ward, Bob Kane, Leslie H. Martinson, Adam West, Cesar Romero See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 45 minutes |
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Batman: The Movie (Widescreen) [Import]
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : Yes
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.75 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 0.01 ounces
- Director : Leslie H. Martinson
- Media Format : Color, Widescreen, NTSC, Full Screen, Special Edition, Closed-captioned, DVD
- Run time : 1 hour and 45 minutes
- Release date : August 21, 2001
- Actors : Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether, Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
- Studio : 20th Century Fox
- ASIN : B00005LOUK
- Writers : Bob Kane, Lorenzo Semple Jr.
- Number of discs : 1
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[Edited to add 07/15] When I wrote this review, "Batman: The Movie" was only available in DVD. After the (finally!) release of the TV series on BluRay/DVD, this movie has been released on BluRay. I've been told the extras are different.
The movie starts out with this dedication, which exemplifies the campy humor, fake seriousness and double entendres of the movie and TV show:
"We wish to express our gratitude to the enemies of crime and crusaders against crime throughout the world for their inspirational example. To them, and to lovers of adventure, lovers of pure escapism, lovers of unadulterated entertainment, lovers of the ridiculous and the bizarre ... To fun lovers everywhere... this picture is respectfully dedicated.
If we have overlooked any sizable groups of lovers, we apologize. -- The Producers"
Batman and Robin go in a huddle with Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara after Batman's hilarious fight with a shark, on a rope ladder, hanging from the BatCopter, where he hits the shark and it sounds exactly like he's hitting a rubber fish, said rubber shark finally repelled with a handy can of Bat Shark Repellent. The crime duo had been tracking a yacht, which mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the ocean.
The four huddlers come to the horrible conclusion that they are up against four supercriminals working together:
Batman: "Pretty fishy what happened to me on that ladder."
Commissioner: "Where there's a fish there could be a Penguin."
Robin: "It happened at sea. See? "C" for Catwoman."
Batman: "The exploding shark was pulling my leg."
Commissioner: "The Joker!"
Chief O'Hara: "It all adds up to a sinister riddle. Riddle-er. Riddler?"
Aaargh!! Yes, the fab four criminals are after the yacht owner's new invention, the Total Dehydration Machine. With it, you can turn a person into a pile of colored dust. Later, just add water, and the person pops back up.
How will our favorite crime fighters defeat them, especially when Catwoman dons the disguise of a Russian reporter to get close, very close, to Bruce Wayne? Dressed in a leopard skin hat and coat, she first introduces herself to Batman at a press conference: "Comrade Kitayna Ireyna Tatanya Kerenska Alisoff. I am from the 'Moscow Bugle'." Aaargh again!
This movie is great fun to watch, with all sorts of verbal and visual jokes. And everybody seems to be having a great time. The movie is presented in widescreen 1.85:1 aspect ratio. The menu and extras, however, seem to be TV-sized.
Here's the extras on the 2008 Special Edition DVD:
1. Commentary. You can watch the movie with commentary by Adam West (Batman) and Burt Ward (Robin). As there's only two commentators, there are some pauses, but it was fun. Like me, you may wish that Julie Newmar had played Catwoman in the movie. Ward remembers that Newmar was busy filming "MacKenna's Gold" and not available.
West says: "These tights were not terribly comfortable."
Ward: "Holy Understatement! I called them my python pants, because they strangled me to death."
The TV show ran for three years on ABC. Ward remembers that the Bat Cave was a very expensive set. "When we were cancelled, if they hadn't destroyed it, NBC was gonna pick up the show and we would probably still be shooting today."
2. Batman Featurette. This is a 30 minute short with interviews with Burt Ward and Adam West, accompanied by movie outtakes and stills. Ward remembers that he had a great stuntman, but he still kept getting hurt. "During the first episode, four days in a row in the emergency hospital. I didn't think I was going to survive the first week."
West remembers that the TV show had 250 guest stars, including the people who pop up out of the window while Batman and Robin are doing their "infamous" wall-walk. This was a coveted guest appearance and people who wanted to do it but couldn't get the scheduling included Frank Sinatra!
The short ends appropriately, with Ward crying, "Holy DVD, Batman!"
3. Batmobile Revealed, with George Barris. This short is an interview with the designer and builder of the original BatMobile. I don't know about you, but THAT'S the BatMobile I want! It includes a hilarious remembrance of being arrested in Fargo North Dakota for driving the BatMobile with "no windshield wipers and incorrect taillights."
4. From the Vaults of Adam West. These are photos and stills from Adam's collection.
5. Behind the Scenes Still Gallery. More photos.
6. Theatrical Trailer
7. Spanish Theatrical Trailer
8. Teaser
9. Planet of the Apes Cross Trailer. A theatrical preview showing snippets from Charleton Heston's "Planet of the Apes" to introduce the remake of the same movie.
10. Languages available: English stereo, English mono, French mono
Captions available: English, Spanish
This movie is a lot of fun, but you have to put your silly hat on, or you'll just be groaning as you watch it! After you watch the movie, watch the great 2-disc TV special " Batman - Holy Batmania ". Great bios and additional information about all facets of the "Batman" TV show and this movie. Someday, the TV show will come out on DVD, and I'll get that, too!
EDITED TO ADD October 2014: At last, the TV show is coming out on DVD and BluRay on 11/11/14!
Batman Complete Series (DVD)
Happy Reader
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2012
[Edited to add 07/15] When I wrote this review, "Batman: The Movie" was only available in DVD. After the (finally!) release of the TV series on BluRay/DVD, this movie has been released on BluRay. I've been told the extras are different.
The movie starts out with this dedication, which exemplifies the campy humor, fake seriousness and double entendres of the movie and TV show:
"We wish to express our gratitude to the enemies of crime and crusaders against crime throughout the world for their inspirational example. To them, and to lovers of adventure, lovers of pure escapism, lovers of unadulterated entertainment, lovers of the ridiculous and the bizarre ... To fun lovers everywhere... this picture is respectfully dedicated.
If we have overlooked any sizable groups of lovers, we apologize. -- The Producers"
Batman and Robin go in a huddle with Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara after Batman's hilarious fight with a shark, on a rope ladder, hanging from the BatCopter, where he hits the shark and it sounds exactly like he's hitting a rubber fish, said rubber shark finally repelled with a handy can of Bat Shark Repellent. The crime duo had been tracking a yacht, which mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the ocean.
The four huddlers come to the horrible conclusion that they are up against four supercriminals working together:
Batman: "Pretty fishy what happened to me on that ladder."
Commissioner: "Where there's a fish there could be a Penguin."
Robin: "It happened at sea. See? "C" for Catwoman."
Batman: "The exploding shark was pulling my leg."
Commissioner: "The Joker!"
Chief O'Hara: "It all adds up to a sinister riddle. Riddle-er. Riddler?"
Aaargh!! Yes, the fab four criminals are after the yacht owner's new invention, the Total Dehydration Machine. With it, you can turn a person into a pile of colored dust. Later, just add water, and the person pops back up.
How will our favorite crime fighters defeat them, especially when Catwoman dons the disguise of a Russian reporter to get close, very close, to Bruce Wayne? Dressed in a leopard skin hat and coat, she first introduces herself to Batman at a press conference: "Comrade Kitayna Ireyna Tatanya Kerenska Alisoff. I am from the 'Moscow Bugle'." Aaargh again!
This movie is great fun to watch, with all sorts of verbal and visual jokes. And everybody seems to be having a great time. The movie is presented in widescreen 1.85:1 aspect ratio. The menu and extras, however, seem to be TV-sized.
Here's the extras on the 2008 Special Edition DVD:
1. Commentary. You can watch the movie with commentary by Adam West (Batman) and Burt Ward (Robin). As there's only two commentators, there are some pauses, but it was fun. Like me, you may wish that Julie Newmar had played Catwoman in the movie. Ward remembers that Newmar was busy filming "MacKenna's Gold" and not available.
West says: "These tights were not terribly comfortable."
Ward: "Holy Understatement! I called them my python pants, because they strangled me to death."
The TV show ran for three years on ABC. Ward remembers that the Bat Cave was a very expensive set. "When we were cancelled, if they hadn't destroyed it, NBC was gonna pick up the show and we would probably still be shooting today."
2. Batman Featurette. This is a 30 minute short with interviews with Burt Ward and Adam West, accompanied by movie outtakes and stills. Ward remembers that he had a great stuntman, but he still kept getting hurt. "During the first episode, four days in a row in the emergency hospital. I didn't think I was going to survive the first week."
West remembers that the TV show had 250 guest stars, including the people who pop up out of the window while Batman and Robin are doing their "infamous" wall-walk. This was a coveted guest appearance and people who wanted to do it but couldn't get the scheduling included Frank Sinatra!
The short ends appropriately, with Ward crying, "Holy DVD, Batman!"
3. Batmobile Revealed, with George Barris. This short is an interview with the designer and builder of the original BatMobile. I don't know about you, but THAT'S the BatMobile I want! It includes a hilarious remembrance of being arrested in Fargo North Dakota for driving the BatMobile with "no windshield wipers and incorrect taillights."
4. From the Vaults of Adam West. These are photos and stills from Adam's collection.
5. Behind the Scenes Still Gallery. More photos.
6. Theatrical Trailer
7. Spanish Theatrical Trailer
8. Teaser
9. Planet of the Apes Cross Trailer. A theatrical preview showing snippets from Charleton Heston's "Planet of the Apes" to introduce the remake of the same movie.
10. Languages available: English stereo, English mono, French mono
Captions available: English, Spanish
This movie is a lot of fun, but you have to put your silly hat on, or you'll just be groaning as you watch it! After you watch the movie, watch the great 2-disc TV special "[[ASIN:B0002W4UXE Batman - Holy Batmania]]". Great bios and additional information about all facets of the "Batman" TV show and this movie. Someday, the TV show will come out on DVD, and I'll get that, too!
EDITED TO ADD October 2014: At last, the TV show is coming out on DVD and BluRay on 11/11/14!
[[ASIN:B00LT1JKN2 Batman Complete Series (DVD)]]
Happy Reader
For those who get the special edition Blu-Ray, the extras include two commentary tracks on the movie. One by the screenwriter, and a great one with Adam West and Burt Ward, who are pretty hilarious. Then there are a series of featurettes, the main one titled Batman: A Dynamic Legacy, which is a 30-minute retrospective on the impact of the series. Then there are separate features on the heroes and the villains of the show, and a feature on the Batmobile. It also includes the featurette from the original 2001 DVD release that contained interviews with the surviving cast members. So, if you like watching the extras, there is a lot there for you.
Overall, you have to go into this knowing what it is and what it is not. If you are not a fan of the 60s TV show, then watching this is going to be a waste of time. It has the same cheesy, campy tone, and the plot makes as much sense (or does not) of any of the plots in the TV episodes. It is funny in parts, eye-roll inducing in other parts, and you have to know you are not getting anything close to "The Dark Knight" version of the character. While the movie does look and sound pretty good in HD, I would not say it got an over-the-top restoration like some older movies have, so really the main reason to get the Blu-Ray over streaming it is for the extras, because you have the tv series on disc, and/or just a preference for physical media. If you are in one of those categories, it is a good pickup.
This batman built imagination within the minds of children. I know that the new generation that are used to the dark night batman would laugh at this.
I guess I have an appreciation for this kind of cinema and classic hand to hand combat, also the conversations between Batman and Robin, or Batman and Alfred are priceless.
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I know I'm going to love every "biff" "smack" " pow" that this era has to offer.
Le film est bien en VF même si c'est l'édition allemande.
A little bit of the beginnings in Batman cinema. Fun and serious, with ridiculous riddles and awkward fights. Excellent for that very reason. Must-have for Batman fans!
About the DVD:
Good picture and sound, DVD Zone 2, with special features.
Language: English.
Subtitles: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, English for the hearing impaired.
Reviewed in Spain on May 15, 2022
A little bit of the beginnings in Batman cinema. Fun and serious, with ridiculous riddles and awkward fights. Excellent for that very reason. Must-have for Batman fans!
About the DVD:
Good picture and sound, DVD Zone 2, with special features.
Language: English.
Subtitles: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, English for the hearing impaired.