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Batman - The Animated Series, Volume One (DC Comics Classic Collection)

starring: Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill
directed by: Bruce Timm

: 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
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: 3578
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 05, 1992



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Amazon.com:
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



Customer Reviews
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Amazing
Other reviews go into great detail of what these DVD set includes, I'll keep it my review short, but ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - The Beginnings of a Legend
I grew up watching Batman: The Animated Series on TV. I would tape every episode, I had all of the action ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Perils of Gotham City
This review focuses on Burton's Batman (Batman89, Batman Returns), Nolan's Batman (Batman Begins, the Dark ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - bang for your buck
i have to say this was so good. my little brother and i watched the whole season the day we got it, i am a ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Top notch entertainment!
Batman-The animated Series Volume one is a great example of what a well throughout quality action series can ... Read More

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