2016 · action · animation · adventure
Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders
Directed by Rick Morales1h 18m2016
Adam West and Burt Ward returns to their iconic roles of Batman and Robin. The film sees the superheroes going up against classic villains like The Joker, The Riddler, The Penguin and Catwoman, both in Gotham City… and in space.
Our read: Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded action · animation · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle action / animation, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- funny
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How Batman feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want Adam West Batman nostalgia with camp villains and vintage TV-series humor.”
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