| | | Holy Special Edition Batman!
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Dolby Digital Mono, Commentary, Theatrical Trailers, Featurette, English, Spanish Subtitled
When Batman (Adam West) and Robin (Burt Ward) get a tip that Commodore Schmidlapp (Reginald Denny) is in danger aboard his yacht, they launch a rescue mission. But, the tip is a set-up by four of the most powerful villains ever, who seek to defeat the Dynamic Duo once and for all!Armed with a dehydrator that can turn humans into dust, the fearsome foursome intends to take over the world! Can the Caped Crusaders use their high-flying heroism and groovy gadgetry to declaw Catwoman (Lee Meriwether), ice the Penguin (Burgess Meredith), upstage the Joker (Cesar Romero), and stump the Riddler (Frank Gorshin) in time?  What is UMDTM?
UMD, Universal Media Disc, is a brand-new and groundbreaking optical storage medium, designed for the high speed and efficient delivery of digital entertainment content that can store up to 1.8 GB of digital data on a 60mm disc -- or an entire feature film on a single UMD video. All UMD DVDs are produced in Widescreen and encoded using advanced AVC compression. UMD for PSP will play on the new PlayStation Portable handheld entertainment system.
Specifications
Diameter: 60 mmMaximum Capacity: 1.8GB (Single-sided, dual layer)Laser wavelength: 660nm (Red laser)
"Fun for the whole family, and if you don't take any of it seriously you'll laugh harder than The Joker and The Riddler combined!" Patrick Naugle, DVD Verdict
"Colourful and tremendous fun...a blast from beginning to end..." Raphael Pour-Hashemi, DVD Times
"Holy Cornball Camp, Batman! This movie's a hoot!" Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com
"Campy, colorful fun with the Caped Crusader plus several of his TV villains." Steve Crum, Video-ReviewMaster.com
"I'd choose Adam West's Batmobile over Michael Keaton's any day." Time Out
Editor's Note
This full-length Batman movie was unleashed during the height of the television show's popularity in 1966, taking America to dizzying levels of superhero camp it had never before experienced. In stark contrast with the many dark and gritty incarnations of Batman, the film features all four of the famous crime fighter's most dastardly and cunning adversaries--the Penguin, the Joker, the Riddler, and Catwoman--joining forces to take over the world thanks to a De-Hydrator that turns people into piles of dust. The Caped Crusader and his trusty sidekick Robin pull out all the stops to thwart the bad guys, even if it means a BIFF! or a KA-POW! Before Keaton, before Bale, Adam West was...Batman.
Plot Summary
Kaaapowie! Holy feature film, Batman... one based on the tongue-in-cheek, campy 1960's television series. Watch Batman and Robin battle sharks, Catwoman, The Joker and The Riddler on the big screen. Can they try to prevent the bad guys from taking over the world? With a "wham!" and a "pow!" and a "zip!"... our heroes just might win.
| Features | Elektra Trailer | | DVD Picture Quality | | Full Length Movie | | Batman Featurette | | Batmobile Revealed | | Fantastic Four Trailer | | Widescreen Presentation | | Audio: English Dolby Digital Mono | | Commentary by Adam West and Burt Ward | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Foxvideo |
| Release Date: 12/6/2005 |
| Running Time: 1966 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1966 | | Catalog ID: 2231204 | | UPC: 00024543212041 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.78:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Memorable Quotes| "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb." |
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| | Professional Reviews | Eccentric Cinema 7 of 10
Leaping from the small to the silver screen, Batman: The Movie is derived from the popular 1966 television series that introduced the Caped Crusaders to a new generation of fans. Like Dino De Laurentis' 1980 adaptation of Flash Gordon (also written by frequent Bat-scribe Lorenzo Semple, Jr., who penned the script for this film), Batman divided comics fans. Die-hard Batman fans scorn the film and television series for their campy treatment of the solemn character, while others thrilled to the celebrity guest villains, bright colors, and outlandish plots...Of course, one of the main draws of '60s Batman were always the villains, and here we are treated to four of the finest...Meredith's Penguin comes off best of the bunch; whether quacking orders in the bowels of his submarine (his rebuke to the Joker when he tells him not to "sound so bossy" is "on land you may command, in the sea, it is me!") or impersonating Schmidlapp to trick Batman into taking him to the Batcave, Meredith is, perhaps, the definitive Penguin, throwing himself completely into the role...Then there's Batman and Robin. Love 'im or hate 'im, there's just something appealing in Adam West's stoically dead-pan characterization...Series regulars Alan Napier, Neil Hamilton, Stafford Repp, and Madge Blake in two ultra-brief, silent cameos round out the cast as Aunt Harriet. - Lucas Micromatis
DVD Journal 8 of 10
Between the sublime and the ridiculous you'll find...the sublimely ridiculous. And in that loopy, dizzy place lies Batman: The Movie, which hit the big screens in 1966, between the first and second seasons of ABC's Batman TV series' three-season run. Now considered a "camp classic," it's a silly-without-shame ancestor of the Zucker Brothers' Police Squad! series and Naked Gun and Airplane! movies. Sure, it's all so far over the top they installed a ski lift. It winks at the audience so often you develop a tic. Yet it's well-crafted and self-aware pop cheese that for more than three decades has maintained a devoted fan following...Oh, sure, the whole thing has its problems. The rat-a-tat gags could try the patience of a Catskills comic, and once the story reaches cruise velocity it stays there too long, so by the final time the supervillains launch a Polaris missile at our heroes you might miss it while checking your watch. Still, it's goofy clean fun, nostalgic and timeless in its Theater of the Absurd outrageousness. Batman: The Movie won't be to the tastes of those for whom The Batman can only be the Dark Knight of the post-'80s graphic novels or Tim Burton's "re-imagined" movie series. But this unembarrassed fluff provides enough guilty pleasures to satisfy long-time bat-fans and bring new ones into the fold. - Mark Bourne
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