Batman: The Movie
POW! ZOOK! FLAM!
With the instant popularity of the campy 1960's Batman TV
series, 20th Century Fox decided a big-screen adventure was in order.
The plots were still ludicrous and the dialogue even sillier, but as
always, stars Burt Ward played their parts with a straight-laced sincerity that made things all the more hilarious.
The dastardly deeds begin when The Penguin uses his flipper-powered
submarine to steal a super-dehydrator. But the Antarctic anarchist is
not working alone, gentle reader! No, a plot this size requires the
combined evil thinking caps of four costumed criminals: The Penguin,
The Riddler, The Joker and Catwoman! And as Commissioner Gordon puts
it, “The sum of the angles of that rectangle is too monstrous to
contemplate!”
Using the super dehydrator, the United Underworld (as they dub
themselves) sucks the moisture out of the nine-member United Nations
Security Council, leaving nine multicolored piles of dust. Can no one
stop this blueprint of badness, this design of diablerie? Two men can
(well, one man and one boy wonder). But first they’ll have to defeat a
ticking time bomb, an exploding octopus and a shark with a six-foot
vertical leap.
What will become of Batman and Robin? Tune in next week, same Bat-time, same Bat-channel!
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