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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780790789033 Format: Animated, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 0790789035 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 4 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 06, 2004 Running Time: 625 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: September 05, 1992 Sales Rank: 2479 MPN: WARD31896D
Product Description: Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/24/2005 Run time: 625 minutes Rating: Nr
Amazon.com: Warner Brothers' Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1995) remains a striking, stylized program that helped to revitalize the familiar comic book hero. Drawing on such diverse influences as Frank Miller's graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns, the Fleischers' Superman cartoons of the early '40s, and contemporary Japanese animation, the filmmakers stress interesting designs and cinematography. The Caped Crusader prowls a sinister, Art Deco-styled world of tall verticals, sharp angles, silhouettes, searchlights, and grid-like shadows cast by window frames. Its visual pizzazz eclipses Filmation's pallid kidvid, The Batman/Superman Hour (CBS, 1968), which ran off and on in various incarnations through 1981. Many of the same artists worked on the Batman animated features (e.g., Mask of the Phantasm (1993), Batman Beyond--The Movie (1999)), which display similar strengths and weaknesses.
Ironically, Batman: The Animated Series looks better in stills than it does in motion. The artists fail to stylize the movements of the characters to match the dramatic settings, as Genndy Tartakovsky and his crew did in Samurai Jack. Batman uses sophisticated computers to combat the well-known villains--the Joker, the Penguin, Mr. Freeze, Catwoman--as well as some less celebrated baddies: Manbat, Clayface, The Mad Hatter. The bad guys cram a lot of plotting and scheming into each 22-minute episode, but the violence is kept to a broadcast standards minimum.
The Dark Knight's First Knight easily ranks as the most interesting of the extras. Producers Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski recount the genesis of the series, and show their mini-pilot, which is more violent and more fully animated. If the complete episodes had matched the pilot, the series would have been much more exciting. (Unrated, suitable for ages 8 and older: violence, mild grotesque imagery) --Charles Solomon
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Rating: - Batman the animated series vol.1
I have watched Batman the animated series volume one and I love it! one of
the episodes,I'm having a hard time connecting to is the forgotten.But,otherwhise most of the episodes are good.
Rating: - Excellent
This is early Batman, the streets, cars and clothes people wear look very 1950's, except the Batmobile and everything starting with "bat". I personally like the 1960's Adam West batmobile the best of the ... Read More
Rating: - Amazing
Other reviews go into great detail of what these DVD set includes, I'll keep it my review short, but this is the greatest animated series ever made.
Rating: - The Beginnings of a Legend
I grew up watching Batman: The Animated Series on TV. I would tape every episode, I had all of the action figures, and if there was a new episode on you better not even try to talk to me until it was over. ... Read More
Rating: - The Perils of Gotham City
This review focuses on Burton's Batman (Batman89, Batman Returns), Nolan's Batman (Batman Begins, the Dark Knight), and 1992 original Batman: The Animated Series. I'm excluding Schumacher's Batman (Batman Forever, ... Read More
- Excellent