DVD : Batman - The Animated Series, Volume One (DC Comics Classic Collection)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790789033
Format: Animated, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790789035
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 06, 2004
Running Time: 625 minutes
Sales Rank: 4919
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 05, 1992
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/24/2005 Run time: 625 minutes Rating: Nr
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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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I've loved the batman animated series since I was little.I was thrilled to find this box set at an F.Y.E store one day. It's an outstanding volume which I recommend for all batman fans.
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I have watched Batman the animated series volume one and I love it! one of
the episodes,I'm having a hard time connecting to is the forgotten.But,otherwhise most of the episodes are good.
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This is early Batman, the streets, cars and clothes people wear look very 1950's, except the Batmobile and everything starting with "bat". I personally like the 1960's Adam West batmobile the best of the lot.
I have always liked Batman, and I'm almost to the point where I won't hear a bad word said about him or the associated characters. I'm in Australia and had to buy this via Amazon - it's not available locally (not yet anyway - Nov 2008).
I have to say that the stories are good and varied, no characters are over exposed in this first volume, though the order in which the episodes play seem to be totally out of chronological order. Only one or two have Robin in them, and they're on the 4th disc, and there is no introduction of the character - he's just suddenly there. Although, having said that, a lot of Batmans' own history is shown, as is the history of those he takes on.
I don't know the "correct" version of the history of every character, but I found it to be a good entertaining watch, worthy of my time, when there are so many other options to choose from.
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Other reviews go into great detail of what these DVD set includes, I'll keep it my review short, but this is the greatest animated series ever made.
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I grew up watching Batman: The Animated Series on TV. I would tape every episode, I had all of the action figures, and if there was a new episode on you better not even try to talk to me until it was over. Little did I know the show I enjoyed so much as a kid was being enjoyed by people of all ages, and would go on to be recognized as one of the definitive screen versions of the character. And rewatching these episodes as an adult, I couldn't agree more.
First off, you cannot really talk about this version of Batman without mentioning the art style. The characters are very stylized (just look at Batman's impossibly square jaw), and the world they inhabit is straight out of the art deco designs of yesteryear. Yet the art direction is so consistant, and the portrayal of these characters so smart and well executed, you cannot help but instantly believe in it. There is also some really impressive animation to be seen on this set, especially given the typically limited television budget. However, there is also some really poor animation on display, depending on which overseas studio was handling a given episode. The quality wouldn't iron itself out until later in the show's run, and unfortunately some of these early episodes are hard to watch because the animation is so distracting.
Another aspect of this show that was ahead of its time is the writing. Here is a show that was designed from the ground up to air on Saturday mornings, with a target audience ... Read More
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starring: Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill
directed by: Bruce Timm
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790789033
Format: Animated, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790789035
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 06, 2004
Running Time: 625 minutes
Sales Rank: 4919
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 05, 1992
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