Batman

Here's a scene from the movie: Batman and Robin are in a helicopter chasing a boat when Batman decides to climb down the "bat ladder" to jump onto the boat. For some reason, Robin dips the helicopter down thus dipping Batman into the water. When Batman reappears a shark is biting his leg. Batman then says something along the lines of, "Robin, get me the Shark Repellent Spray!" Batman eventually retrieves the spray and begins using on the shark. The shark falls into the water and explodes! In a later scene Robin says, "This took place in the sea... C for Catwoman!" The riddles in the movie are ridiculous: What sits in a tree, weighs six ounces and is dangerous? A sparrow with a machine gun!

If no one else has commented on the great effects, then i will. KABLAM! POW! BOOM! The effects were really funny and the evil villians teaming up together against batman and robin was a genius idea on the writers part! I always will and still do find robin cuter than batman. The riddler's jokes were really tacky, but i know i never would've came up with those jokes in a million years! i'll just stick with the jokes from the laffy taffy wrappers! (LOL) The movie was great and i strongly recommend it if you want to see batmans funny side and see the caped crusader attempt to battle all the evil forces of gotham city! (A- B+)

Try not to put it too much, at all, in line with the other Batman movies, first of all. The difference between Christopher Nolan's Batman films and the 1960's TV show and subsequent spin-off movie is the difference between a hat and a boot- they both fit, but never in the same sections (unless one likes walking on a hat or wearing a boot). Weird comparison? Try some of the one-liners in this movie, man! This is filled with so much comedy, both intentional and not so, one has to keep a tally on when things are meant to be crazy and when they just are by design of whatever's going on in the low-budget but high concept stratosphere. This is NOT your darker, Frank Miller/Grant Morrison/Alan Moore Batman work, but rather the by-product of a period where superheroes were just frigging goofy. And, hey, why not camp it up for all it's worth? My high rating for this movie is and isn't ironic. It's got some of the cheesiest, lamest, most "what-in-Jebuz-were-they-thinking" sets and props (the shark is something Ed Wood would've cut out), dialog exchanges and super-obvious stereotypes (not the least of which on commies but also the UN room!), and it looks like half of its 30-day shooting schedule was used to play ping-pong when things got boring on the set. It is at its core for Bob Kane's creation what the 1978 Holiday Special was the George Lucas's Star Wars: it's so bad it's truly and utterly awesome for every moment it can squeeze out a frame. Watch it with friends, make wisecracks right alongside the characters, make your own Joker makeup and put it over your mustache, and try and put out of your mind "HOLY ALMOST!" BUT, at the same time, some of the writing by Lorenzo Semple Jr is, genuinely, clever and well-worded. Amid the stupidity and pandering and things that only kids would think are somewhat OK in the comic-book setting (and even I when I saw this as a kid knew it was WAY outside of the usual Batman ground), one marvels at some of the puns and gags and things that work, tremendously. And to be certain the bomb gag, with Batman running around trying to bypass nuns and ducks and babies is something that is about as close to Monty Python as one could ever hope for the dark knight, and it's pure genius. The film also boasts its all-star cast (save for Catwoman who was replaced momentarily), whom all chew up scenery like it's fillet mignon at the Old Homestead. The camera-person, too, is often in on the weird excitement, and has the kinds of tilted angles and perspectives one would normally see in a Terry Gilliam freak-out. Did I mention the weirdly awkward ending that seems resolved but has the air of uncertainty for no reason? Batman is a delightful bad-movie masterpiece, a not-totally guilty pleasure that you can't turn away from for a moment but realize is everything you wouldn't want Batman to be if taken at all seriously. For its time and place it came, it saw, and it conquered a good portion of the audience for three seasons and a cheap flick. And I love every second of it.

Batman, the best superhero of all time is finally in techni-color. And is coming to a DVD near us. Sorry, just had to get that out, I mean this movie leaves you will a cheesy goodness that is Batman. I know a lot of people always criticize and make fun of the series, but I don't understand how anyone could hate this? Yeah, it's a complete turn around from the original comic books, but it's just non stop laughter and even the actors were aware of that. You just have to love the sprays that Batman has, "Shark repellent"? LOL! Not to mention the fun villains who are just so "filthy and diabolical". I am in love with this script, I mean, it's so cheesy, but it did it on purpose. Like when Batman finds out the true identity of Catwoman and Robin says "Holy Heartbreak!". Or my favorite scene that is possibly my favorite scene of all time, where Batman has a bomb in his hands and is trying to get it out of people's way so they won't get killed, but no matter what he keeps bumping into the same marching band in the streets or finding people in the way, and finally he just sighs and says "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb". CLASSIC! Please, watch this movie, it's beyond hilarious, just pay the $5.99 for the movie! 9/10

We all loved 'The Dark Knight' and 'Batman Begins'.I haven't seen Tim Burton's versions, but I'm sure that they're better than this piece of trash that some people even call a movie.The first 20 minutes of this movie are so bad, that I just left my house to go to the library to get on the computer to write a bad review for this movie.There's a scene where Batman is hanging from a ladder attached to a helicopter and he falls in the water, gets pulled back up, and we see a shark biting Batman's leg.A shark? Why is there a shark in a Batman movie? Was the director smoking pot while he was filming this? The shark didn't even go back in the water to breath.Everyone knows that sharks can't breath out of the water.Add in some bad acting and some un-interesting characters and you have yourself a bad movie.Now I'll never get 20 minutes of my life back.At least I watched it on HBO for free.Do yourself a favor and watch the 'Batman Begins' and 'The Dark Knight', the best Batman movies so far.

Having, losing, gaining... to a generation of kids this WAS Batman. Only when Tim Burton reinvented the big screen perception of the "caped crusader" did it become outdated. The third of the new films, Batman Forever parodied this film and the series with a "holy" joke. Unfortunately the movie in question was the first to be directed by Joel Schumacher, and so was consequently brash and bereft of wit. Yes, thanks to ShoeMaker this version of Gotham has suddenly become the coolest yet again. It's all such brilliant fun, awash with the irony so gloriously absent from Batman & Robin. Michael Keaton was a wonderfully dark Batman, but the other two were planks. Adam West is knowingly hammy as the title role, and relishes the deliberately cheesy lines. He has a potbelly and a costume that looks like it was made out of an old binliner. Anyone who cannot see the genius of that is beyond help. Burt Ward's brilliantly overacted Robin is also hilarious, and far less irritating than the asinine Chris O'Donnell version. The Batmobile is ace, too. I remember having a chunky Corgi model of the car that shot out matchsticks across the room. Much better than a CGI-enhanced penile extension. Even the rubbish filmed backdrops are fun. Everything's a bat-something in this film, a rope ladder having a large "Bat Ladder" sign tied to the end. This is a fantastic movie, how could anyone not love it? Some hilarious scenes include the shark fight, the trap door spring and Batman with the biggest (and longest-fused) bomb in history. Look at this dialogue exchange where they try to work out which supervillain is behind the mayhem: "But wait! It happened at sea. See? C for Catwoman." "An exploding shark ... was pulling my leg." "The Joker! It all led to a sinister riddle. Riddle -er. Riddler?" Fortunately, it turns out they're all involved, along with Burgess Meredith as the Penguin. The scenes set on the villains' hideout are shot with the camera at slanted angles, an inspired touch. All the poor things about this film work in its favour - Cesar Romero as the Joker looks about 80 and clearly hasn't bothered to shave off his moustache, but it works, as does the full-bore "acting" of Meredith and Merriwether. Only Frank Gorshin as the Riddler slightly disappoints; though that's because he's nowhere near as over the top. He is, of course, infinitely preferable to Jim Carrey. Anyway, they all work superbly together and the film doesn't feel top-heavy. A huge flaw of the new series, where more than one villain never quite clicked, can you imagine Nicholson, Pfeiffer, Carrey and DeVito all in the same movie? Of course it'd be impossible not just in budget but in egos, so having modest TV actors here serves the story well. One strange element of characterisation is seeing the Joker getting bossed around by the Penguin, something that would never happen in the comics. Some of it's so wilfully silly it almost goes too far. If you put your tongue into your cheek you may choke, and seeing a Pentagon head playing tiddlywinks eggs the joke a little, though the whole thing is so well-meaning that you simply can't hold it against the movie. The plot, though, really isn't up to much at all, something I never noticed as a child (but then I never realised it was a comedy when I was a child, either). A repetitious sequence of events that sees the villains constantly trying to destroy Batman and Robin from afar, the heroes trying to locate their secret base. It goes round in circles, but a glorious "Biff! Pow!" fight on a submarine and a sideways swipe at eugenics make sure it all ends in style. Lastly, look out for the scene where Ward and West run up and down on the spot ("Luckily we're in tip-top condition!") while a film background of a street and the theme tune play - a classic. Simple, silly fun and almost relentlessly appealing. So much so I nearly added another point to the total... 6/10.

i'm not even going to try writing a full-out review because it is just a waste of my time. everything about this movie is dreadful. Even if it does copy the original comic books, it still sucks. if it was meant to be a serious action movie, it failed. if it was meant to be humorous at times, it failed. if it was purposely made to be painful, horrible, and just plain 'sucky,' then it succeeded admirably. what a waste of time, energy, money, and most importantly: film! all of these resources could have gone into producing a halfway decent movie, but no. now there is another movie out there in the world that only brings down the status of film-making as an art. this is garbage. GARBAGE!!!

Tim Burton's BATMAN is for people who take comic books seriously. The Adam West BATMAN TV series and movie is for the rest of us. Batman is the role West was born to play. He delivers his lines with a seriousness and self-importance perhaps matched only by Steven Seagal--and Seagal isn't trying to be funny. I can understand how comic-book fans might dislike this movie. It does, after all, treat the whole Batman concept with jokey disrespect (though really, as another reviewer pointed out, it's an over-the-top parody of the old serials). However, for those of us who see the inherent silliness in the notion of a "millionaire playboy" dressing up in a bat suit to fight "supervillains," it's fun to watch a movie that sees it as well. Perhaps the most amusing aspect of this movie is its off-the-wall view of the United Nations; the particular ambassadors are treated as something more than bureaucrats, apparatchiks, and political cronies who could be replaced in five minutes with any of ten thousand equally capable (or incapable) people. 7/10.

The Joker, The Riddler, The Penguin & Catwoman have joined forces to wreak havoc on Gotham City......and then the World! Can Batman & Robin save the day? Remember when Batman was fun? Not a serious scene in sight, no tales of revenge or personal demons to burst from the screen in a day glow burst of thunder. For many of us who grew up in the 60s and 70s this was the only Batman that mattered, pure unadulterated fun, all campy veneer and skin tight Technicolor suits. This full length outing for the dynamic duo is of course just an extended episode from the joyous TV series, just add a bit more money and you got a Bat Boat, a Bat Helicopter and erm, erm, Bat Shark Repellent! It's just wonderful I tell you. How any of the actors kept straight faces is anyones guess, but they did, and they collectively delighted millions of children and like minded adults in a way that can't be described to the none believers, thank holy god for the caped crusaders that always kept us safe. 8/10 Footnote: Watching now in my middle years I ask any red blooded male this; is there anything more sexy than Lee Meriwether in the Catwoman suit? No wonder my Dad was a fan of the show back then...........

A wise man once said "The 60s Batman movie is the greatest ever." I should know, because I was that wise man. 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? 8/10 - Awesome, simply awesome