The Batman - The Complete First Season (DC Comics Kids Collection)
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Features
• Animated
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• DVD-Video
• Subtitled
• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 11 September, 2004
DVD Release : 07 February, 2006 |
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The Batman - The Complete First Season (DC Comics Kids Collection) Customer Reviews
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A Mediocre Season with a Hopeful Ending
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The Batman is not and will never be Batman: TAS. Bruce Timm did a wonderful job creating that masterpiece and I doubt it will ever be duplicated. The first season of The Batman however gives a reason to hope for another good batman series.
Until the last two episodes, this would've been in 1-2 star territory. Some of the villain "updates" are atrocious and those episodes are not very fun to watch. Scarface is a hip gangster-pimp that creates a robot version of himself, Mr. Freeze is some kind of weird wizard and has lost all three-dimensionality, and the Penguin is a martial arts master? In the extras a creator talks of how fun they thought it would be if the Penguin was this amazing fighter, how that would add some "pop" to this character. What an awful decision. These visions of great villains are garbage and the shows greatest failing.
The Joker, though radically different, is not so poorly done. He maintains insanity quite well, and while his voice will never match that perfect Joker provided by Mark Hamill over the years, it's a pretty good imitation. The Joker is a frequent player, which is a plus because he's one of the stronger characters in the show so far.
There is no commissioner Gordon, instead there's a young Black detective and his sassy anti-Batman babe of a partner. While these might be the results of a diversity meeting, they still provide pretty good banter, and Ethan helps Bruce Wayne develop a better sense of identity.
The last two episodes contain a joker story and the creation of Clayface. Clayface's origin in the original Batman: TAS is one of my favorite stories, so naturally I was apprehensive going into these episodes. I was pleasantly shocked. The second-to-last episode does a good job of building up a lot for the season finale, and they absolutely deliver. It's one of the more satisfying episodes of a Batman show I've seen, from Batman: TAS, to Batman Beyond, to this season of The Batman. I won't talk much about it aside from my broad compliments, for fear of taking away from it. Suffice to say a very new clayface is hatched in an episode that makes every single character seem real. If this had been 13 episodes of this quality my review would be 5 stars and consist entirely of the words "buy" and "watch."
Despite the plodding feeling that was ever-present as I pushed through the bulk of the season, the improvements that came about at the very end will see me picking up the next box. |
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