As part of Bat-Week here’s the trailer for the upcoming LEGO Batman: The Video Game due out in September from Traveller’s Tales (who created both the LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Indiana Jones games). After beating a level as Batman or Robin (and Nightwing!) you will unlock the ability to play the same level as the villain.
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Batman (Adam West) and Robin (Burt Ward) take on one of their biggest challenges yet as four of the villains from the 60’s Television show team-up to take down the Dynamic Duo and kidnap the World Security Council, turn them into dust, and hold the world hostage. You know, just your average run-of-the-mill day in Gotham City.
Although not as good as the series itself (it was filmed during the hiatus between the first and second seasons), the film does capture the spirit and campiness fans of the show came to love.
We get ridiculous riddles which are reasoned (and I use that term loosely) in an insanely twisted logic to unexpected, and quite unbelievable, answers. Oh, and don’t forget the suicidal porpoise.
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No digital cartoon here folks. Despite the fact that many cartoons had gone to digital at the time it came out Batman the Animated Series is old school, in more ways than one. Hand drawn on cells with painted backgrounds with a limited color palate and a breath-taking style that merges old school images into a new and exciting storytelling. Producers Eric Radomski and Bruce Timm deserve all the praise I can muster for this wonderful creation that got better and better year after year.
As you watch the main titles you notice they never say Batman (that’s pretty ballsy for a “kid’s show”). From these early images you can see the importance of the visual look to the series, which is very important on a show where the main character doesn’t talk much. Building on core concepts of who and what Batman is while adding a new dark art deco style and flair to the look of Gotham the creators make almost all the right choices including retuning the Joker‘s balls and allowing him to be a wickedly scary demented killer.
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As part of all things Batty we take a look at Batman: Dead End. This low budget fan film makes some important points – 1) Batman doesn’t need to be cased in rubberized armor to be cool; this costume (made for far less) simply makes those multi-million dollar rubber suits look silly. 2) Fanboys, no matter how much they love the character, can just as easily screw something like this up (as you’ll notice with the introduction of both a Predator and an Alien).
“We need our heroes to stand up and show us what this country is supposed to mean.”
Although I’m a huge fan of the Justice League animated series I wasn’t too thrilled with their first big feature film Superman: Doomsday (read that review). On hearing their next project would be an adaptation of Darwyn Cooke’s DC: The New Frontier, I was a tad skeptical about what the finished project might look like. I shouldn’t have worried; this time they get it just right.
Set i the 1950’s, an age of distrust and the height of McCarthyism, the film opens with the end of the Korean War and test pilot Hal Jordan (David Boreanaz) ill-fated final mission. It’s appropriate the film (not counting the pre-credit sequence) opens with Jordan, because he more than any other character is asked to carry the film.
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