Difference in Opinion

Batman

Released: 1966

Rated PG for violence.

Cast: Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether, Cesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin

Rating: 8 out of 10 for pure nostalgia

Runtime: 1 Hr 45 Mins

Favorite Quotes: “Penguin, Joker, Riddler… and Catwoman, too! The sum of the angles of that rectangle is too monstrous to contemplate!” “The Riddler is loose to plague us with his criminal conundrums.” “They may be drinkers, Robin, but they’re still human beings.” “Some days, you just can’t git rid of a bomb.”

Summary (from IMDB): When Batman and Robin are called out to rescue Commodore Schmidlapp, they are unaware that they are actually being fooled and the real Schmidlapp is being kidnapped by four of Batman’s most feared enemies. The Catwoman, The Joker, The Penguin and The Riddler are working together to try and take over the world once and for all.

The Bad Stuff:

- There is no bad stuff, if you don’t take this movie seriously. If you do, you will find a lot of things that are wrong or stupid. If you don’t, you can sit back and get lost in the obsurdity of it.
- Actually, there is one bad thing. Robin is a tool.

The Good Stuff:

- This is easily one of the most quotable movies ever. The lines themselves (and the deliveries by the actors) are classic.
- Meriwether (Kitka/Catwoman) is hot.
- If you liked the old TV show, you will love this movie. It has everything that the show had, including the “Pow!” and “Whack!” anytime someone gets hit.

- This movie has everything. Including, but not limited to: dehydrated pirates that get rehydrated, a bomb that is in shark which is biting Batman’s leg, a submarine that is painted to look like a penguin, the best aliases ever (P. N. Guin for example), the longest stare directly down the lense of the camera ever, drawn on eyebrows and nose, and so much more.

I think I might be a little biased towards this movie because I was raised on it. I don’t know how many times I watched it, rewound it, and watched it again. It is a classic that will never die.