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Editorial Review:
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BATMAN:ANIMATED SERIES VOL 1 - DVD
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Warner Brothers'
Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1995) remains a
striking, stylized program that helped to revitalize the
familiar comic book hero. Drawing on such diverse influences
as Frank Miller's graphic novel The Dark Knight
Returns, the Fleischers' Superman cartoons of the
early '40s, and contemporary Japanese animation, the
filmmakers stress interesting designs and cinematography. The
Caped Crusader prowls a sinister, Art Deco-styled world of
tall verticals, sharp angles, silhouettes, searchlights, and
grid-like shadows cast by window frames. Its visual pizzazz
eclipses Filmation's pallid kidvid, The Batman/Superman
Hour (CBS, 1968), which ran off and on in various
incarnations through 1981. Many of the same artists worked on
the Batman animated features (e.g., Mask of the
Phantasm (1993), Batman Beyond--The Movie (1999)),
which display similar strengths and weaknesses.
Ironically, Batman: The Animated Series looks
better in stills than it does in motion. The artists fail to
stylize the movements of the characters to match the dramatic
settings, as Genndy Tartakovsky and his crew did in Samurai
Jack. Batman uses sophisticated computers to combat the
well-known villains--the Joker, the Penguin, Mr. Freeze,
Catwoman--as well as some less celebrated baddies: Manbat,
Clayface, The Mad Hatter. The bad guys cram a lot of plotting
and scheming into each 22-minute episode, but the violence is
kept to a broadcast standards minimum.
The Dark
Knight's First Knight easily ranks as the most interesting
of the extras. Producers Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski recount
the genesis of the series, and show their mini-pilot, which is
more violent and more fully animated. If the complete episodes
had matched the pilot, the series would have been much more
exciting. (Unrated, suitable for ages 8 and older: violence,
mild grotesque imagery) --Charles
Solomon
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