Batman - The Animated Series - The Legend Begins
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Actor: Bob Hastings, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Jane Alan, Kevin Conroy, Loren LesterBrand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Anne Luiting
Producer: Benjamin Melniker
Writer: Boyd Kirkland
Writer: Jerry Robinson
Writer: Neal Adams
Writer: Pat Allee
Writer: Randy Rogel
Writer: Robert Kanigher
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Portuguese (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-04-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Batman - The Animated Series - The Legend Begins
Movie Review: If you can only afford to buy one dvd of the batman series, then I guess you should go ahead and get this.
Summary: 5 Stars
But the fact that you can get 85 episodes for around 80-90 dollars, this disc is ONLY for people who are JUST getting this one.
So you can get this for 2.50 used on amazon and if you are already buying a bunch of stuff then this is a good buy, as long as you really like this show like me, then you need to get the very cheap boxed sets.
So all of these episodes are classics be sure to at least get this disc even if you are not a batman fan.
ON LEATHER WINGS- First ever episode created of the series, but not the first shown. Surely the network thought that it was a little too dark and decided to show cat and claw like past reviewer said. Their is a funny scene where a security guard and a nurse go to the back romm to get it on and when they start kissing in comes the man bat to save this from becoming a porno. I always found little touches like this perfect for a kids-teenagers show. Little did I realize that I would still love this show hust as much 10 years later. The man bat is not one of my favorite episoed but would have been a nice premiere.
CHRISTMAS WITH THE JOKER- A very dark episode to start out with where the Joker escapes form arkum and kidnaps the commish, his daughter, and bullock just for laughs. AND SOME VERY GOOD LAUGHS THEY WERE. The joker episodes were always the strongest, and they were certainly the best at the start of the series when the creators were still getting there feet wet. So the joker has a great line in this movie where he says if the bat doesn't come and save the commish and company, and then he does like a throat slash. Maybe he didn't or couldn't say kill but the gesture was even stronger. So everything wraps up real nicely in this one with some nice batman electrifying torture and a classic joker falls into the lava pit or something and batman saves him at the last second.
NOTHING TO FEAR- The origin of the scarecrow is shown in this episode and is done so VERY slick. They easily could have done a 2-part series buy very nicely made it into a single complete episode.
THE LAST LAUGH-this was a very inventive one and has one of my favorite character."You've killed Captain Clown".
PRETTY POISON-
I believe this is the first episode that has harvey dent(later two-face). It is also the first appearence of Poison Ivy.
It's too bad that this disc only has 5 episodes but when these first came out this was the best cause all the rest had mother effing 4, only 4 episodes on it. They certainly came out with the new batman series pretty quick, didn't they.
Also if you are a real collector of this series, then this is worth 2-5 dollars for you also. It has essential interviews with bruce timm talking about each episode and his thoughts on them individually. This was THE only thing that was good about these scrawny little dvd releases. He talks about how the first episode would have been perfect because it is batman versus a man-bat creature. He also talks about introducing harvey dent to the series rather than just throwing two-face at you and having no sympathy for a very sad man. Phantom of the opera obviously had influence on this, but still a great remake, redo version.
Summary of Batman - The Animated Series - The Legend Begins
In the original five episodes of the Emmy-winning Batman The Animated Series, Batman must battle The Joker, The Scarecrow, Poison Ivy and more to protect Gotham City.Taking a cue from the caped crusader's comic book rebirth in Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One, this 1992 animated series saved the TV Batman from a fate worse than camp and drew an unexpected audience for an afternoon cartoon: adults. The initial five episodes gathered here feature such supervillains as Man-bat, the Scarecrow, and Poison Ivy, but the deliciously demented Joker (voiced by Mark Hamill) steals the show in his two appearances, especially in the twisted "Christmas with the Joke." Escaping Arkham Asylum in a rocket-powered Christmas tree, the clown prince of crime preempts a TV showing of It's a Wonderful Life with his own homicidal holiday treat. It's a solid start to a sleek, stylized, smartly written series that only improved with time. Ages 7 and up. --Sean Axmaker
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