Batman animated series

[Dancer]

Is Batman animated series for under fourteen year olds? I've never watched it so I was just wondering if you guys throught it was.

[boy wonder]

Yeah, it's a family show.

[Uatu]

It's awesome for all ages.

[1HELLBOY]

Its awesome anyway. Whether you're sixty or six. :D

[The Xenos]

Wait, do you mean the 90s one or the crappy crappy crappy new one The Batman out now?

Cause the 90s one is like PG. Some questionable stuff sometimes, but nothing I personally wouldn't show in a kids show. Then again I think after 9/11 kids should see more death and violence on their shows to help prepare them emotially for the real world. Too bad censors think the opposite and want kids heads far in the sand.

This new The Batman toon isn't good for anyone under 14, or above 14. I don't suggest anyone watch it. It's somewhere between the 90s Batman toon and the old Adam West 60s show. Plus throw in some gallons of Jackie Chan Adventures. It's a really weird combination that creates an too bizzare Batman.

-Xenos

[1HELLBOY]

This new The Batman toon isn't good for anyone under 14, or above 14. I don't suggest anyone watch it. It's somewhere between the 90s Batman toon and the old Adam West 60s show. Plus throw in some gallons of Jackie Chan Adventures. It's a really weird combination that creates an too bizzare Batman.

-Xenos


I love it. I watch it every Saturday with TT and JLU.

[Astonishing X-Fan]

Yes, and it's enjoyable for all ages, and there's nothing really specific I can think of that would make it inappropriate, aside from maybe a hidden joke or two that a kid's not going to get anyway.

[Elevation]

i loved the show back when I was a kid. And now that I've collected the three volumes on dvd i have a hwole new apprecation for the show. it certaintly was ahead of its time.

[Charagon]

Made for kids, enjoyable for everyone.

[Sixgun_Samurai]

Bruce Timm the creator for the cartoon should have directed the Batman Forever, and Batman and Robin movies. He knew how to show Two-Face, The Riddler, Mr. Freeze,and Posion Ivy as cool villians. He made every body on the show great he is the Batman guru IMHO. Get the series you won't regret it.

[Lubichev]

My eight (almost 9) year old LOVES it. We bond over episodes of Batman. Her favourite episode is Tyger Tyger. She also likes The Underdwellers a lot too.

[Shellhead]

I used to date a woman with young kids, early grade school at the time. They loved watching the 90's Batman series. I taped a bunch of episodes, and they watched them over and over again.

[Headhunter]

Hell yes, I started watching when I was 8-9 and was obsessed. I watched every airing I could catch, even if it was for the 10th time; what an amazing show.

I'd still watch it that obsessively if it was on TV, been saving up for the DVD sets but there's too many comics in the way...

[Winslow]

I loved it back in the 90s, and have wondered if it would be a good idea to buy the DVDs now that my kids are old enough . . .

There was some sexual innuendo, but it was all dialogue that would fly above the kids radar.

BTW, Gotham Adventures and Batman Adventures (comics based on the animated series) are pretty good.

[CBright]

Isn't Volume Four coming out soon?

[Kieralinn]

Hell yes, I started watching when I was 8-9 and was obsessed. I watched every airing I could catch, even if it was for the 10th time; what an amazing show.

I'd still watch it that obsessively if it was on TV, been saving up for the DVD sets but there's too many comics in the way...


It's on Boomerang right now if you have it. It plays in a block with Superman:The Animated Series.

[kingdom2000]

Can't beat the Batman: Animated Series. It truly the series all others get judged against.

as for The Batman, well I can't forgive it for preventing JLU for using Bats' Rogues Gallery (WB mandate). I know TV execs think kids are retarded but sheesh give them some credit. Also, all the villians are now identical except in gimmick. They are all crazy, strong, athletic goons that all stand equal chance of beating the crap out of Batman. The Penguin went mano o mano and almost won. The Penguin!

[The Xenos]

I love it. I watch it every Saturday with TT and JLU.

Everytime you watch The Batman, God kills a kitten. Please. Think of the kittens.

My eight (almost 9) year old LOVES it. We bond over episodes of Batman. Her favourite episode is Tyger Tyger. She also likes The Underdwellers a lot too.

Thank you for raising your child on the good Batman cartoon instead of this newer and trendier watered down one.

-Xenos

[Kieralinn]

Everytime you watch The Batman, God kills a kitten. Please. Think of the kittens.
-Xenos

I want that on a bumper sticker NOW! :D

[nightwing1982]

Yes~good over evil and great part when that teaches about drugs and family and over all doing the right thing.

[nightwing1982]

Plus a shows the high-lights strong female characters.

[Lubichev]

Isn't Volume Four coming out soon?
I think there were only three seasons. I may be wrong. They'll start releasing the sub-par New Adventures of Batman and Robin seasons soon, I'd bet.

[Adem]

I think there were only three seasons. I may be wrong. They'll start releasing the sub-par New Adventures of Batman and Robin seasons soon, I'd bet.

I think they'll just release those as volume 4.

[Kirayoshi]

I think there were only three seasons. I may be wrong. They'll start releasing the sub-par New Adventures of Batman and Robin seasons soon, I'd bet.
I dunno if I'd call it 'sub-par'. While there were one or two clunkers(Farmer Brown?), there were at least three gems I could name from the fourth season that stand along the best of the show's classics.

"Legends of the Dark Knight" While Batman confronts Firefly, three kids discuss what they think Batman's really like. Included sequences modeled after the Dick Sprang/Jerry Robinson Golden Age Batman and Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns.

"Mad Love" From the graphic novel by Dini and Timm, the definitive Harley Quinn ep. Especially loved the brutal fight between Batman and Joker atop a moving train car, which featured Batman's best single line in the whole show; "She came closer to finishing me off than you ever did...puddin'!"

"Over the Edge" Batgirl, dosed by Scarecrow's fear toxins, dreams that her death would lead to an all out war between Batman and Commissioner Gordon. Watching Gordon's life fall apart, to the point where he would cut a deal with Bane to take down Batman, was as dark as this show ever got.

As for WB's The Batman, I only have one real issue with the show; while it's entertaining enough for superhero fare it doesn't feel like Batman. It feels more like Goliath from the Gargoyles, complete with an attractive female cop ally. Not coincidently Gargoyles creator Greg Weismann has written for The Batman. If the show had more non-villain supporting characters other than Alfred maybe it'd feel more like the real thing. Oh, and instead of turning Riddler into a Marylin Manson clone, why didn't they go with the metrosexual look he was sporting last we saw him in the Batman titles?

Besides, thanks to the subplot involving Bruce Wayne's cop buddy turning into Clayface, along with the lack of Harvey Dent, doing a Two-Face story would become superfluous.

[Grant]

I think there were only three seasons. I may be wrong. They'll start releasing the sub-par New Adventures of Batman and Robin seasons soon, I'd bet.

I'm in the minority but I always liked that run of episodes and thought they were pretty underrated I wish they had another season to work out some of the kinks though. But it was nice seeing the lighter more superhero Batman and it was fun seeing Batgirl, Tim Drake Robin and Nightwing and that family dynamic they had. I probably liked it for the same reasons people disliked it simply because it wasn't Batman: The Animated Series.

[Steve]

Was I the only one who liked the new designs in The New Adventures of Batman & Robin (aka Batman Gotham Knights) more than Batman:TAS? I thought they improved on Batman, Robin, and Joker.

[Grant]

Was I the only one who liked the new designs in The New Adventures of Batman & Robin (aka Batman Gotham Knights) more than Batman:TAS? I thought they improved on Batman, Robin, and Joker.

I prefer some of them. I like what they did with Batman, Catwoman, Robin and Batgirl. Penguin looked a whole lot better and I'm glad they got Bruce Wayne out of those ratty brown suits. I kind of like the Joker redesign but I think the Justice League/Return of the Joker version works the better. I wasn't nuts about the Mr. Freeze, Killer Croc, Scarface and Mad Hatter redesigns.

[Astonishing X-Fan]

I liked the Ivy re-design, but her best TV design wasn't until her very short appearance on Justice League.

I liked TNBA, lots of fun episodes. But it was dumbed down. Look what happened to Ivy. From three-dimensional, tragic character with real motivations...to a crook with a plant gimmick.

And she wasn't the only villain that suffered. Remember all the development Harley went through over the course of the original series? Coming to a peak in "Harley's Holiday" which end with her pretty much reformed and quite possibly with a crush on Batman, and a weaker connection to Joker. But it was all completely ignored, and she went right back to the status quo.

Ivy definately got it the worst when it came to the dumbing-down, but in general the entire tone of the show just got less serious and wasn't as "smart"...less "House and Garden"s and "Heart of Ice"s and "Second Chance"s...more fun romps.

[CBright]

And she wasn't the only villain that suffered. Remember all the development Harley went through over the course of the original series? Coming to a peak in "Harley's Holiday" which end with her pretty much reformed and quite possibly with a crush on Batman, and a weaker connection to Joker. But it was all completely ignored, and she went right back to the status quo. That's what I was thinking after I saw Harley's Holiday. I was thinking "There's no way she would let Joker do that to Tim Drake." I remember shortly after Harley's Holiday, there was one more Joker episode and Joker said he was single again.

As for Joker's redesign, I thought itlooked stupid from screencaps from The Batman/Superman Movie. It looked like Spy vs. Spy mixed with a Elvis hairdo, and Joker clothes. Then I saw it in motion and it didn't bother me for the most part.

Mad Hatter's revamped look looks stupid, but we'll have to wait and see.

[Headhunter]

It's on Boomerang right now if you have it. It plays in a block with Superman:The Animated Series.
Not in Canada, sadly... :(