Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders

Plot synopsis:
At stately Wayne Manor, Bruce Wayne (Adam West) and his ward Dick Grayson (Burt Ward), watch their favorite show The Gotham Palace. During the programming, a band that was supposed to play on the show is revealed to be hidden and replaced by four of the dynamic duo's greatest villains: Joker (Jeff Bergman), Penguin (William Salyers), Riddler (Wally Wingert), and Catwoman (Julie Newmar). Bruce and Dick suit up as Batman and Robin and head towards the Gotham City Police Department, where they receive a riddle from Commissioner Gordon (Jim Ward) and Chief O'Hara (Thomas Lennon).
They discover that the crooks are robbing the Acme Atomic Energy Laboratory of their newest invention, the replication ray, which has the power to make a perfect duplicate out of anything. After a brief fight, the criminals manage to escape Batman, but leave behind a clue that leads the caped crusaders to their lair in an abandoned TV dinner factory. While discussing what to do with the Replication Ray, Catwoman reveals her plan to make Batman join their side with a scratch from a substance called "Batnip." After Batman and Robin break in, they are defeated by the criminals and trapped on a frozen food tray heading towards a large oven. Catwoman uses her Batnip on Batman, but he is supposedly unaffected by it. The two escape the trap after the villains leave the factory.
Back at stately Wayne Manor, Bruce starts showing signs of aggression after Aunt Harriet (Lynne Marie Stewart) nearly discovers the Batcave. He blames Alfred (Steven Weber) for the incident and fires him leaving the butler to wander on the streets homeless. After days of not finding Joker, Penguin, Riddler, and Catwoman, Batman figures out that the four crooks are no longer on Earth and have hijacked a space station. The two heroes go into space with the help of their Bat-Rocket.
At the space station, Joker, Penguin, and Riddler betray Catwoman as they don't trust her on their side due to her feelings for Batman. They try to throw her out into space. She is rescued by the Dynamic Duo and aids them in defeating her former allies for revenge. Batman savagely beats the three men and recovers the replication ray, but Catwoman escapes in an escape pod in the process.
After the mission, Dick expresses concern towards Bruce for his behavior in the space station and at the Gotham City Police Department (where he left when Gordon wasn't looking without a word). Bruce kicks Dick out of the house and takes a break from being Batman, resulting in a crime spree in Gotham City.
A few weeks later, Batman returns to the Gotham City Police Department and blames the police for the increase in crime. He uses the replication ray on himself to replace Gordon and O'Hara as police commissioner and police chief respectively.
Batman soon replaces most of the government, jobs, and citizens in Gotham with his replicas and plans to take over the world. Dick realizes that the Batnip had a delayed effect on Batman and was slowly making him more evil over time. He then suits up as Robin and goes to Catwoman's lair to request her help in curing Batman which she agrees to do as she thinks the effects of the Batnip were more severe than she planned.
The two take the Catmobile to the Bat Cave, where Catwoman attempts to give Batman the antidote, but Batman anticipated it and took the Bat Anti-Antidote. Batman defeats the two in a fight and leaves them to die in the Nuclear Reactor, but they survive thanks to Robin's Bat Anti Isotope Spray. Knowing they can't take on an army of Batmen by themselves, Robin and Catwoman arrange the prison break of most of Batman's rogues gallery escape from Gotham State Penitentiary like Archer, Black Widow, Bookworm, Clock King, Egghead, False Face, King Tut, Louie the Lilac, Mad Hatter, Minstrel, Mr. Freeze, Sandman, Shame, and Siren by claiming to Warden Crichton (Thomas Lennon) that the ball and chains and pickaxes aren't in good shape. This resulted in the replaced versions carrying the villains out of the prison. While a prison guard tells Warden Crichton that Joker, Riddler, and Penguin didn't escape, the three of them mysteriously turn into a pile of dust.
The two confront Batman and his army on The Gotham Palace set, but they still lose even with the help of the criminals. Before Batman kills Robin and Catwoman, a disguised Alfred arrives and gives Batman a strong enough antidote to counter the Anti-Antidote. Batman returns to normal, and the rest of his clones turn to dust as the replication ray wasn't strong enough to make perfect clones.
Batman realized that his behavior change was used as a distraction by Joker, Penguin, and Riddler, and that the ones they arrested were fake copies. The real ones were using the opportunity to rob the Gotham Art Museum. Batman, Robin, and Catwoman (who came as vengeance for what they did at the space shuttle) chase them to Penguin's blimp, where the villainous trio is defeated after they're knocked off the blimp to a safe location to be arrested. Catwoman tries to escape with the stolen paintings, but Batman recovers them and Catwoman, unwilling to be put in a cage again, allows herself to fall into a smokestack, leaving her fate ambiguous.
Bruce and Dick then throw Aunt Harriet a surprise birthday party (acting as if that's the secret they've been hiding from her) before being called away by the Bat Signal.

Tags: violence

Review:
I particularly appreciated the camera panning homage around the bat mobile.Adam West, Burt Ward and Julie Newmar returned to voice their roles from the classic Batman TV shows of the 1960s.
There were other Batman adaptations for the movies before him (Lewis Wilson anyone?) but Adam West is the one we all remember.Julie Newmar got her deserved place back in this movie.
She played Catwoman in the original TV series but was replaced by Lee Meriwether in the 1966 Batman movie.
And since this movie is obviously trying to homage the old show as well as be it's own thing, Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders does a great job!
Well, because "Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders" really captured the essence and the spirit of the glorious Batman series from the mid-1960s.The animation was really good, and the art style was great.
I thoroughly enjoyed the particular drawing style that they went with in "Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders", because it really was a unique style in a retro-kind of way.But even more impressively was the cast to the animated movie.
And there really is a lot of great stuff for fans of the TV series from 1966.The story in "Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders" was just like an extended episode from the iconic TV series, complete with the hilarious dialogue and the exploding stars with various fight words when they were brawling on the screen, just like in the TV series.As for the voice cast, well as I just said, then it was a pure treat to have so many talents return to the Batman universe and come together in this 2016 animated movie.
However, if you are not familiar with the 1966 TV series, then chances are very high that you will find the dialogue to be kind of weird, if not downright odd and bizarre."Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders" is definitely aimed for the audience whom grew up watching the TV series on the television, such as myself.
And it always cracks me up to see that every item in the bat-cave and in the arsenal of Batman and Robin has to be labeled with Bat-something.If you are a fan of the Adam West era of Batman, then you should definitely not let "Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders" slip by.
With my growing interest in the female gender, I was a big Julie Newmar Catwoman fan and had great admiration for her dangerous curves.Return of the Caped Crusaders is OK, but it is hard to poke fun at something that always used to poke fun at itself.
The series was out-of-step with the original DC character which debuted in 1939, and it took a great deal of effort on the part of movie-makers to return the character to its dark roots.Fans of the 60s series are likely to enjoy this movie...
The campy return of Adam West mixed with our more adult look at Batman.
It is to the point where it seems like no one even remembers that Adam West was the original Batman.
However DC animation has helped bring back the old Adam West styled Batman in a major way.
While also realizing those original fans have probably grew up now so is more willing to lace the film with more sexual humor and also press buttons with the whole Batman taking around a boy with tights and how strange that really is.
Adam West as Batman and Julie Newmar as Catwoman were enjoyable to watch.
If you are a fan of the 1960's Batman, which starred Adam West and Burt Ward, you're gonna be in for a treat here, this is like a reunion movie to that series.
Julie Newmar reprises her role has Catwoman , but the other actors who played Joker, Penguin, and Riddler, have all passed away, so different actor are providing there voices, and I gotta say the actor who voices The Joker sounds amazingly like the original Joker Ceser Romero, to the point where I thought it was Romero.The animation here is not bad, not terrific but not terrible either.
Adam West and Burt Ward provide there voices in the characters that made them famous, feeling like they never really left.
It's fun and good natured entertainment that has some thinking involved where you must solve puzzles or at least try.You get some great cheesy lines such as,"Time to use my trusty Batzooka," and "Holy Salisbury Steak." This is well written and well animated.
Seeing both West and Ward fight their most famous and classic foes again in a well done animated movie is a treat.The movie has Easter eggs and other nods to various Batman incarnations and even pokes fun at times.
I went into this wanting to like it, we're seeing the return of the original old school Batman complete with Adam West, Burt Ward & Julie Newmar!Essentially this is an animated adventure based upon the original Batman television series and it's highly loyal and devastatingly nostalgic.It's faithfulness to the original series however is in many ways its downfall as if you didn't like that very "Marmite" show then you will hate this as well.Full of over the top goofy campy comedy, classic utility belt gags and villian designs we haven't seen in years I commend the creators for what they have done here.Sadly I was never a fan of the original show, I didn't dislike it I just wasn't the demographic and always thought it was goofy for goofy's sake.That being said for the fans of the show this is essential viewing and I'm highly impressed with what they've accomplished.
RIP Mayor Adam West.The Good:Very nostalgicLoyal to the original seriesExcellent voice castThe Bad:Still goofyThings I Learnt From This Movie:The fact we don't see the batzooka anymore is travestyDrinking everytime the word bat is spoken would be a dangerous drinking gameBatman has a great Batchelor pad *Badamtish*I don't understand why the eggman isn't a real villian!.
Maybe I'm just tired of having a "dark" Batman, and I say this as someone who collects the comics and has read many, many trades (yes, even New52 for you nerds going "wh-what?"), and seen the Burton Batman films countless times (the Nolan films get a little trickier for me, though Batman Begins is still a quality origin story).
Dead Parents!" So enter in this, the return of Adam West and Burt Ward in a feature in 50 years, and I found it a complete delight and blast to the solar plexus.Return of the Caped Crusaders isn't for the Batman fan that only grumbles about it being dark all the time, though interestingly this does reference the Dark Knight Returns in one line (and I had an especially riotous reaction to that).
I think that this was a great time for West/Ward/Newmar to return and for the filmmakers to try an animated movie since, oddly enough, after about 30 years of almost nothing but Dark Batman stories and movies (sure sure, with the exception of the Schumachers, but best to forget that for now), there's now at least some room, if not a turn around, for the campy and jokey and pun-explodingly-packed Batman series to return.I could go into the plot but suffice it to say it's appropriate that it's for a cartoon - it involves a Bat-formula that Catwoman concocts and gets on Batman's cheek so that he becomes a "Bad" Batman, eventually making multiple Batmans (or, Batmen, which one, not sure), and it's up to Robin and Catwoman(!) to stop him or try to turn him (but can they when Batman has an Anti-Antidote?) This is thoroughly silly and yet it's as inventive as the show was.
If you've seen the 66 movie then you should look at this as not so much a sequel as a simple follow-up, another in a series like when a new Pink Panther movie would come out.What I appreciated the most is how much attention is paid to alliterations, to puns, to fully embracing the silliness and getting even a little meta about the impact of Batman over the past 50 years.
There was a time this was seen as fun AND sophisticated, but that's been turned around by a lot of years of (often good, sometimes really great) Batman stories that returned it to its 'roots'.
But the  Boy Wonder doesn't have time to dissect this new Batman as their vilest  villains  The Joker, The Penguin, The Riddler and Catwoman (Julie  Newmar)  have teamed up to take the Dynamic Duo down for good.
The cartoon continuation of the campy 1960s TV show, this DC  Entertainment feature finds some original cast members returning to  voice their characters as best as octogenarians can.
I was never a big fan of either version of Batman.Both versions had good points and bad points.When I saw there was a new cartoon movie in the TV show style, I had to see it and I was pleasantly surprised.It's exactly like the old show except sometimes they actually parody the show.It's kind of like if the newer Birdman and Space Ghost characters had just done their old shows.The story is about Batman becoming evil and making an army of Bat Clones.It's so funny.Plus, I think they actually bring back every villain from the show.I am so glad they brought back this Batman and I hope they make more.I see most of the positive reviews on here are getting down voted.The fan boys are ragin'!!.
They were given a few sympathetic moments.As a whole I'd say that if you enjoy the campy Batman and are a fan, then you'll have a great time with it.
Much like DC's recent "Batman '66" comics, it's a nostalgia trip, just as much as it's a new twist on an old favorite, that can be entertaining to those not familiar with these versions of the characters.
as part of a double feature with Batman vs Two-face and I liked both.I remember I use to watch re-runs of Adam west's show as a little kid back
stop Batman's silly chaos.This was a lot of fun to watch, the cool thing is, the key cast sound the same
mind some silly camp humor or if you like Adam West's Batman give it a look..
Very good film for a very old animation film if ur not into the old batman then watch this as it is different but still not like the new one.
Lol im watching this on netflix and its a really good tyrow back to the 60s show adam and burt were always fun to watch love the fact they also have the original catwoman i really reccomend this one to everyone that grew up on old school batman.
Overall an enjoyable film, although Adam West was the first Batman I was introduced to, his voice over sounded like his 88 years of age.
To get Adam West and Burt Ward to play Batman and Robin again!
Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders is a dose of nostalgia as it continues where the 1960s television series left off.Adam West and Burt Ward provide the voices of Batman and Robin in this animated adventure as they battle with the quizzical quipster Riddler, the fish loving Penguin, the clown Prince of Crime Joker and the nip picking CatwomanIt has all the fun and camp elements of the telvison show, there is a scene where multiple Bat clones fight the various villains of the week that appeared in the television show such as Egghead.The cartoon does feel too long, the animation is pretty good.
Unfortunately Adam West's voice does feel like that of an old man but Burt Ward still comes across as the boy wonder..
I enjoyed Return of the Caped Crusaders quite a bit, and found myself laughing uncontrollably from time to time, but that being said, this movie is honestly only as strong as its fan service.Before I get going, allow me to briefly introduce myself as a Batman fan.
I grew up watching the animated series, and have since dove headfirst into Batman stories across a wide variety of mediums, but my first introduction to Gotham City was when my parents showed me the old 1966 movie starring Adam West.
As such, it holds a special place in my heart, and I always like to watch reruns of the old series when I can, even though its lighthearted camp is quite different from what Batman has been for much of his existence.
It can sometimes be a bit cringe worthy.Thankfully, all of the fan service makes Return of the Caped Crusaders an enjoyable visit to a time when Batman was simpler and more innocent, in spite of its obvious shortcomings.
Those who enjoy Adam West's take on Batman will definitely find this to their liking, even if it isn't their preferred take on the Dark Knight.
I don't think it is going to be for any fan of Batman the animated series and beyond that..
The thing is, we've had 40 years since then of comics and movies and animation turning Batman into a serious character.
Adam West and Burt Ward return to the iconic roles of Batman and Robin, providing voices for a new animated take of the classic 60's campy series, in which the dynamic duo face a ...
If you grew up knowing that Adam West is Batman, you tend to find the movies a bit - childish.
This is not one of Morales' best-directed films as the pace is all over the place and gives the movie a rambling and disorganised feeling.I would stay away from this one if you're a Batman fan, especially of the cheesy '66 series.
Buy the original movie or rewatch the series as both are a hundred times better than this film..
Also, and this annoyed me so much, the film constantly uses quotes from old Batman movies and anime just to pander to Easter Egg hunters.
Oh, they have the original actors voicing their respective roles which would have been good if it didn't make Catwoman sound like an eighty year old lady and make Batman sound like the Mayor for Family Guy. I could go on and on, this movie is a mess and will just p!ss you off unless you are a zombie trendy..
"Return of the Caped Crusaders" has several references to the original TV series which will have viewers laughing in delight.
Chief O'Hara's "Begora" is great, as is Commissioner Gordon's comment, following Batman figuring out a criminal plan, "Of course, why didn't I figure that out?" From the animation, to the voices of original series' stars Adam West, Burt Ward, and Julie Newmar, to the plot (which was never really broached on the TV series), to the "inside" jokes, this film is a terrific homage to the TV series.
It was good to hear Adam West, Burt Ward and Julie Newmar reprise their iconic characters for this feature length animated film.
The actors don't sound all different to their time on the series.The animation strongly resembles the 1960s T.V show but the tone of this film is quite dark in places.
Batman is a bit more angry and Adam West played the character from this angle effectively.
Based on the 60's Batman series starring Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin, they return to voice the characters that made them famous.
They, along with Julie Newmar, who returns to voice Catwoman, are back with one of the best DC animated films in a while.
The four main villains, Catwoman, Penguin, The Riddler, and The Joker have all returned and it feels like it could be a direct sequel to the 1966 film that also had these four villains as the main antagonists to Batman and Robin.
If they tried to make it their own it would've destroyed the movie (Wally Wingert has actually voiced The Riddler in the Batman Arkham videogames so it was great to see him do the same character that was separate from that universe so well).
This movie is great fun to watch you don't have to be a fan of the 60's/80's Batman to enjoy this movie.
The best scene is act 2But I am glad they got Adam West, Burt Ward and Julie ???
(whatever her name is) back to reprise Batman, Robin and Catwoman with voice actors who weren't active at the time like Wally Wingert and Jim Ward..
A cartoon version of the 1966 Adam West Batman series.I must admit the first 20 or 30 minutes of this show were a struggle, even to a full-on 1966 Batman fan like me.Many others have said they struggled with Batman sounding so old, but that was not so much my issue, my early problem was that I am not a regular viewer of cartoons so, at first, I was just not comfortable seeing 1960s Batman filmed in this way.
If they can bring Peter Cushing back to life in Star Wars: Rogue One (2016) why not give us a young Adam West/Burt Ward in CGI?However, after 20 or 30 minutes I became more comfortable with the cartoon look and I just went along with the ride.This is a wonderful tribute to a 50 year old TV series.
Adam West and, Burt Ward voice their roles for the title characters and Julie Newmar returns to breathe life into Catwoman.
*I Will Try Not to include spoilers but will notify you beforehand if I deem it necessary.Overall: This movie was pure nostalgia for people who love the Adam West Batman.
This movie was thoroughly entertaining but many audiences, particularly those who do not enjoy or at least feel nostalgic from the Adam West era of the Caped Crusader.Good: ​It is very very well animated and the music is incredible and nostalgic.
This was more than likely made for fans of the older Batman series from the 60s, but good God was this hard to watch.