Customer Reviews
Quirky, but engaging - By: Tyke, 03 Oct 2007 
West & Ward play themselves, in a film which combines dramatised events from their real-lives when they played the Dynamic Duo in the sixties, with a paralllel plot where the Batmobile - now a retro-exhibit - is stolen by two of the actors who played villains in the original series (Frank Gorshin aka The Riddler & Julie Newmar aka Catwoman). West & Ward try to recover the Batmobile, pausing along the way to reflect on their years of stardom.
Their real-selves are played in the flashback scenes by Jack Brewer (West) & Jason Marsden (Ward). Brewer, though handsome, bears no resemblance to West, but Marsden is almost identical to the young Ward. Through this we learn the real & amusing story of how the two were chosen to be Batman & Robin, how Ward did more stunts than his stuntman (and spent more time in casualty as a result) & how their marriages suffered when opportunities for dallliances were thrust relentlessly upon them. No wonder that Batman experienced so many strange stirrings in his Utility Belt ...
West, now in his seventies, is still a fine looking man & seems comfortable at putting his glory days in humorous perspective. Ward is at first unrecognisable as the lithesome Boy Wonder, perhaps as the result of eating too many Bat Burgers over the years, though his voice is unmistakeable.
Lee Merriwether (another Catwoman) does a couple of brief cameo scenes & has aged more gracefully than Newmar who, it must be said, appears to have had several face-lifts too many. Frank Gorshin tries commendably to recreate the live-wire zaniness of his Riddler years, though is clearly very aged.
The extras are minimal, comprising text biographies & filmnotes. DVD quality excellent, with some good title & incidental music.
batman and robin reunited - By: Paul Tapner, 11 Apr 2007 
A hugely enjoyable tv movie from several years ago. This features adam west & burt ward, the stars of the batman show from the 1960's, playing themselves, whilst on the track of a criminal who has stolen the batmobile used in the series. Hugely funny sequences follow as they play themselves trying to track the car down. Scenes are knowingly shot in the style of the original programme, & there's a voiceover of the kind that you'd get before a commerical break that only adam can hear.
Intercut with alll this are scenes showing the making of the programme, with younger actors playing adam & burt from those days. These are interesting both as a look at the making of it, as they offer some fascinating trivia, & as a warts & alll portrayal. They commendably don't shy away from adam west's womanising & other problems of the time.
You probably have to have seen the original series to fully appreciate this, given the style in which it's done, but if you have, it's a hugely entertaing trip down memory lane. The dvd offers a trailer & scene access & nothing much else in the way of extras, but it's the movie that makes it good.
Not Batman - By: M. G. Hatfield, 14 Mar 2007 
This is the original stars back together but it makes a totallly mess of what could be a great DVD it doen't deserve a star rating or aleast a minus star rate about minus 70.
This is the worst DVD of a Batman related product if you like the original Batman & don't have the movie I suggest that would be a better buy this is a more documentry that a film.
I can't warn too strongly about this DVD leave it well alone & chosse something else but if you don't take my warning I promise you you'll want rid of this DVD before the end of it.
I can make this claim as I like you thought it may be outtakes & blooper reels.
If you want Batman the animated series is a good buy.
Again DON'T BUY THE DVD it is a waste money.
If you must see it rent it & make up your own mind but I still think it's batdroppings.
Holy Tongue in Cheek Batman! this DVDs a must! - By: P. D. gray, 02 Sep 2006 
I cant praise this made for tv movie enough, its fantastic, not only for fans of the original BATMAN tv series but also lovers of nostalgia, biographical dramas & anyone with a sence of humour. Basicallly the premise of this drama is that Adam & Burt (playing themselves in the movie) are out to find the villain who has stolen the batmobile & during their time together they remember alll about how the show came about, developed & finallly ended, not to mention how they themselves were changed by the show. This reminiscing is done by the aid of flashbackss with a couple of actors playing the young Burt & Adam, & a lot of period detail. Its very cleverly done & fascinating viewing, not least because the chemistry is still there between Adam & Burt & they obviously had so much fun with this reunion special, it shines through on screen! There are so many in-jokes & Burt/Adam are such good sports, playing along with the jokes 100%.
Its also very informative, find out why Burts tights (or what was in them) caused so much controversy at the time, what exactly WAS in Batmans utility belt & why there was so much muttering about the relationship between Batman & the boy wonder. The actors playing the young Burt & Adam are fantastic, & its hard to think a better choice could have been made, most convincing. I recommend this DVD because it is so entertaining & is worth watching again & again, just seeing Adam do the batdance again is worth the money!!!
Holy nostalgia! - By: LorenzoStDubois, 29 Mar 2006 If you're a diehard fan you'll give it 4 or 5. I'm fond of the 60's series & that's what this film's approach is. Nobody's going to give Burt or Adam an oscar for their acting (then or here). Forget the plot & just enjoy the banter between the two stars, & a few of their old co-stars. There are also some fascinating dramatised(and well acted!) flashbacks to the actors' experiences of the making of the original Batman series. Fans will need to have this as part of their collection. I would just rent it!
