Batman: The Movie (1966)

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• Directors C

  
  [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] Almost entirely forgotten and overlooked by Christopher Nolan's trilogy of Batman films, "Batman: The Movie" is much lighter, comedic, friendlier and weirder than the more recent films. I have… More
  [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] Almost entirely forgotten and overlooked by Christopher Nolan's trilogy of Batman films, "Batman: The Movie" is much lighter, comedic, friendlier and weirder than the more recent films. I have to admit it's not as good as the later Batman films but as frequently stated, the truth is it's campy fun and nothing more.

• Phil H

  
  Classic stuff from the daring duo, looks brilliantly colourful, virtually technicolour, and wonderfully hammy n camp but we all know that. I loved this as a kid, LOVED it! haha all the baddies together was great and the action sequences were bigger and longer, loved the submarine… More
  Classic stuff from the daring duo, looks brilliantly colourful, virtually technicolour, and wonderfully hammy n camp but we all know that. I loved this as a kid, LOVED it! haha all the baddies together was great and the action sequences were bigger and longer, loved the submarine fight at the end. It was actually a decent little plot too managing to incorporate so much yet seem just right, including virtually every Bat vehicle you could think of. The cast is of course legendary and they all play their roles so well, ham yes, cheese yes, but still they are quite convincing and scary for a youngster (I know haha). Its basically a huge pantomime where everyone is really relishing their roles and having a good time trying to out shine their fellow performers, but in a friendly way. Modern kids will probably hate it and laugh and I can guess I can understand that, this really is for the older retro generation brought up on basic TV and the very young, its what Schumacher tried to do with 'Batman and Robin' yet failed, show your young kids this instead.

• Eric A

  
  1966! This started it all! The most awesome part is when someone is hit, an onomatopoeia shows up. I loved this OG Batman.

• Alexander D

  
  Meh; pretty cheesy--more corny humor than action in this superhero movie. I guess it's worth watching, but BATMAN BEGINS and THE DARK KNIGHT are much more worth it.

• Manu G

  
  He's Here Big As Life In A Real Bat-Epic. Remarkable! You have to appreciate this movie if you're a Batman fan, this movie had it all. Sure it's old but it has so many good things going on you can't help but to enjoy it. BAM, SPLAAT, URKKK, BLURP there's a… More
  He's Here Big As Life In A Real Bat-Epic. Remarkable! You have to appreciate this movie if you're a Batman fan, this movie had it all. Sure it's old but it has so many good things going on you can't help but to enjoy it. BAM, SPLAAT, URKKK, BLURP there's a bunch of this phrases thrown around, love em! Nothing like a classic Batman movie. This campy Batman movie based on the 60's hit series, is full of all your favorite main villains. The villains team up on a plot to destroy all the worlds leaders from a peace summit. Batman and Robin are entangled and nearly destroyed. Bruce Wayne's alter ego falls in love with a lady, who is purrrfectly sweet. But if looks could kill..... The mayhem begins when the Dynamic Duo sail into the ocean on the Batboat to the yacht of Commodore Schmidlap, a yacht that proves to be a holographic hoax that leaves Batman caught by a shark filled with explosive that must be defeated with a handy can of Shark Repellent Batspray. The four villains - The Penguin, The Riddler, The Joker, and Catwoman - use the ocean buoy that projected the hoax to lure Batman and Robin into a magnetic torpedo trap, but a powerful reverse polarizer by Batman saves the day for the moment, only to see the batteries run dry - until a school of noble dolphins rescues The Dynamic Duo from The Penguin's underwater missiles. The Fearsome Foursome set another trap by kidnapping billionaire Bruce Wayne, a trap that goes awry and leads to a hectic dash by Batman to dispose of a bomb with innocent people all around and Batman left to mutter about how getting rid of a bomb can't be done on certain days, which leads to yet another supercriminal trap involving The Penguin himself infiltrating the Batcave with dehydrated thugs - whose rehydration goes wrong and leaves Batman to trick the Penguin into leading them back to his criminal cohorts' scheme at the United World building, where the supercriminal scheme takes place and a final confrontation on The Penguin's war-surplus submarine ensues. Find out the outcome of this confrontation in this exciting feature length film. Same Bat-time same Bat-channel.

• Michael E

  
  A great movie tie in of the original TV show

• AJ V

  
  The most hilarious Batman movie ever made! If you like Batman you need to see this movie, even if you haven't seen the show. I love West as Bruce, he's awesome. The story brilliantly combines four Batman villains too! So, go down to your local Bat Video Store and rent… More
  The most hilarious Batman movie ever made! If you like Batman you need to see this movie, even if you haven't seen the show. I love West as Bruce, he's awesome. The story brilliantly combines four Batman villains too! So, go down to your local Bat Video Store and rent this Bat movie.

• MisterYoda ?

  
  3 stars

• Chris W

  
  Say what you want about this, or the series it's based off of, but I like this. I like the darker and edgier Batman a lot more, but this is a fun and campy guilty pleasure that I can't help but enjoy. It may be silly and goofy, but it's better than what Schumacher did… More
  Say what you want about this, or the series it's based off of, but I like this. I like the darker and edgier Batman a lot more, but this is a fun and campy guilty pleasure that I can't help but enjoy. It may be silly and goofy, but it's better than what Schumacher did (although admittedly, I do like Batman Forever- it's kinda good). At least here, peple didn't expect it to be too serious, which is partly why it works. Maybe it's just my enjoyment of kitsch that causes me to like this. Not that all kitsch is created equal or good, but c'mon, do we have to be serious all the time? I'm amazed that they found a way to have som many characters in this and actually have it all work. Why couldn't Sam Raimi have taken lessons from this and applied them to "Spider-Man 3"? The performances are good, the humor is good, I like the music, and, despite the obvious shortcomings with the fight choreography, it's hard not to like those fights, either.

• Wahida K

  
  Not even in my Nightmares I thought there is a Movie like this out there. lol

• Conner R

  
  It's a campy adaption of the most beloved comic book character of all time. It is laughable at best, having little relation to the original storytelling, aside from some of the costuming. I have no idea what was trying to be attempted here, but it certainly wasn't Batman.

• Martin S

  
  Hey....he's a bat. how is that not funny?

• danny d

  
  "you just cant get rid of a bomb some days." this is definitely the kind of flick that is soooo bad that its good, but this film was obviously intended to be bad. from exploding sharks, to suicidal dolphins, to the pentagon selling a nuclear sub to a guy with no address,… More
  "you just cant get rid of a bomb some days." this is definitely the kind of flick that is soooo bad that its good, but this film was obviously intended to be bad. from exploding sharks, to suicidal dolphins, to the pentagon selling a nuclear sub to a guy with no address, nothing in this film is supposed to be taken seriously. having said all of that, the batman fan in me has fun watching this flick. sometimes i just pop it in for some campy and light hearted fun.

• Michael G

  
  I'd be completely oblivious if I failed to mention how ridiculous this movie (I'm talking Ed Wood ridiculous) is but at the same time it's so much damn fun. At the same time if the whole series came out on DVD tomorrow I'd grab it in a heartbeat. West and… More
  I'd be completely oblivious if I failed to mention how ridiculous this movie (I'm talking Ed Wood ridiculous) is but at the same time it's so much damn fun. At the same time if the whole series came out on DVD tomorrow I'd grab it in a heartbeat. West and Ward's delivery is nonsensically fun ("Support your police! That's our message!") and Lee Meriwether was smoking hot. Say what you want about this incarnation of Batman, but it beats the shit out of Schumacher's take...

• John H

  
  This movie is moronic, random and full of nonsense. It ain't an action movie. It's a comedy.

• Coxxie M

  
  the rubber shark was the funniest thing ive ever seen that was supposed to make you go "whoa"

• Tim S

  
  I can quote this movie verbatim. Love it!

• Corey W

  
  #4 BATMAN movie ever

• Cassandra M

  
  OK, it might not be the greatest movie, but it is one of the awesomest movies ever. Only in 'Batman' could intelligent writers come up with some of the most illogical situations and cheesiest dialog committed to screen. A Yacht disappears in Gotham Harbour ("How can… More
  OK, it might not be the greatest movie, but it is one of the awesomest movies ever. Only in 'Batman' could intelligent writers come up with some of the most illogical situations and cheesiest dialog committed to screen. A Yacht disappears in Gotham Harbour ("How can a yacht simply disappear... unless, it was never really there!"). On board was a 'superdehydrator', a machine that can extract the moisture from any living being, and in of the most logical displays of logic ever, Batman and friends logically come to the (correct) conclusion that the culprits are the combined forces of Penguin, Joker, the Riddler and Catwoman, apparently intent on world domination. 'Batman is scene-after-scene of pure brilliance - great situations, and the greatest dialog ever. 'Batman' is very funny, but only if you appreciate and enjoy the style, otherwise you will hate it. But only those who lack a sense of awesomeness would not like it, and who is really so un-awesome, that they can't even find the captioned fights just that little bit amusing? Awesome, simply awesome

• Jason S

  
  This is a great flick for the camp show of the past. It brings together all the big villains of the show and lets our heroes play with all the big toys such as the Bat Copter. Bat Cycle, and even the Bat Boat. Batman even fights off a shark using Bat Shark Repelant. The story is a… More
  This is a great flick for the camp show of the past. It brings together all the big villains of the show and lets our heroes play with all the big toys such as the Bat Copter. Bat Cycle, and even the Bat Boat. Batman even fights off a shark using Bat Shark Repelant. The story is a little silly but so was the show. You can't really hold that against them. I'm just glad the image of the wacky Batman didn't stick.

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