User Reviews

A nice pleasant but disturbingly short documentary on the Batman tales from comic strips to the big screen. Although well intended and well needed, it focuses too much on the Batman of the 60's and fails to acknowledge his development up until the time of 1989. Also, it uses too much archive footage. "Too much?" you say. "You can never have too much Batman." True...but you can have have too much Adam West in his old bat-uniform telling bat-jokes at a bat-car lot or something to a bat-crowd of about 20 people. (Sorry Adam...but I loved the DVD release of Batman The Movie with you and Burt commentating..that was nice) It also briefly discusses the Batmania of its day. Since this was made in 1989, it could have dealt more with Tim Burton's Batman and more with the controversy surrounding it. Perhaps it had been made just a few months later, we could have gotten that. Nevertheless, if you can get your hands on a copy, it's worth watching. I work at a video store and saw it sitting around one day and took it home and watched it. A rare find.

A brief documentary of the Batman character created by artist Bob Kane, and writer Bill Finger, the growth of the franchise, and its impact on the fans. A collection of clips, photographs, and fans home movies. It touches on Batmans comic book roots back in 1939, to the release of Tim Burtons 1989 Batman. It's a wonderful nostalgic look at all aspects of the tv shows, and films. Many clips of the great actors that appeared in the TV series, right up to Michael Keaton, and Jack Nicholson. This is well worth a watch, if you can find a copy.