From: MANEJWZA@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu ()
Subject: Zafar's Review Machine--BTAS:"Heart of Ice"
Organization: Vanderbilt University 
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 23:41:55 GMT
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For all out there, this is my first post here.

Batman The Animated Series :

10/7  "Heart of Ice"

Written By: Paule Dini
Directed By: Bruce Timm

And now, for a brief synopsis:

	The scene opens with Mr. Freeze mumblimg at a glass jar he is
holding with a women inside of it.  
	A reporter on TV is reporting the unusual presence of snow in front of
Gothcorp (a police officer is pegged with a snowball in the background). 
	Later, an armoured truck busts through the Gothcorp Plant and is 
pursued by the Batmobile. Mr. Freeze slicks the road and the Batmobile
wrecks.  Mr. Freeze is stealing some containers at the plant and and Batman
comes on the scene.  Mr. Freeze brittles Batman's boomerang and accidently
freezes one of his own men on the legs.  He is left to stay there.  
	Batman takes him to the Bat cave and puts him in a heating chemical
chambers.  Batman blows his nose and then lets out the weirdest sneeze.  
The man's legs are de-freezed.
	Bruce Wayne meets with the Ferris, the president of Gothcorp.
They discuss any reasons why someone could be attacking Gothcorp. Ferris
abruptly ends the meeting for he is about to receive the Humanitarian
Industrialist of the Year Award.
	Mr. Freeze is again shown starring at the jar with the female inside
of it.
	Batman decides to go look at the files at Gothcorp so he dresses
like a security gaurd at the reception for Ferris. The files show a videotape
of Dr. Victor Freeze's experiment of chriogenesis.  He has his wife in the
chamber and then Ferris enters and stops Freeze.  He then destroys the 
machine leaving Freeze exposed to the harmful atmosphere and his wife
lost.
	Mr Freeze drops in on Batman and fires at him.
	Batman wakes up in an icy cave hanging upside down.  Mr Freeze
mentions that he is emotionless and that Batman was correct in noticing
that his suit is needed for him to survive.  Mr. Freeze then leaves.
	Batman breakes free.
	At Gothcorp, Mr. Freeze pulls up with his grand weapon and fires
at the building.  Batman is escaping while the ice seals around the building.
	Just before Mr Freeze can increase the power of his weapon, Batman
throws an ice cicle and stops it.  He gets his utilty belt.
	Mr. Freeze opens a fire hydrant and rides it like an ice stream
to the top of the building.  He confronts Ferris with his gun and threatens
him telling him about his suffering. He freezes half of his body when
Batman stops him.  
	They fight and Batman manages to crack Mr. Freeze's helmet.
He chokes to the ground.  
	As Batman leaves giving the videotape evidence to the reporter,
he says to Ferris, "Good night, Humanitarian!"
	Mr Freeze is in a temperature controlled Jail Cell.  Holding the
jar of the image of his wife, he mumbles how he seeks "some place where
a warm hand waits for mine." 
	Batman is standing outside on the roof of a building and stops
to look at Mr Freeze in his cell.  He then leaps behind and out of site.


Whew!  Don't worry, I'll make em shorter from now on.

Comments:  This was better than many episodes I've seen before.
Mr Freeze's voice is familiar and very appropriate.  He sounds like
Michael Ansara but I couldn't tell.  The Music was good in the episode,
especially the part when Batman is in the Ice Cave and you hear the bells
that normally are there when you are the nest of a villian.  The animation
was good for the most part.  However, Bruce Wayne is still too much oversized.
Mr Freeze was depicted beautifully.  

Here are my numbers
(out of 10)

Plot: 7  Not original but then again, it did its job.
Character: 6  Mr Freeze was slick yet Batman was a bit too uninvolved
	      dramatically speaking.
Special F/X and action: 7  There was a lot of it.
Animation: 6  Good in some parts.
Music: 7  Harsh and yet eerie. There was a constant hum during Mr Freeze scenes
	  and I liked that.

Overall: 6.6

Tommorow:  A mysterious crime wave of kidnapping.  A Prisoner who has lost 
	   his memory (Batman). "I can't remember!"-Bruce Wayne with white hair.



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