- Starring
- Hamish Linklater, Jason Watkins, Diedrich Bader
- Creators
- Bob Kane & Bruce Timm
- Rating
- TV-14
- Genre
- Action, Adventure, Animation, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Sci-fiSuperhero
- Release date
- August 1, 2024
- Where to watch
- Amazon Prime
Overall Score
Rating Overview
Rating Summary
It’s early in Batman’s crimefighting career, and Gotham is at its peak corruption. The Caped Crusader will have to fight his way through a rogue’s gallery of familiar and new faces if he hopes to quiet the demons that drive him.
Batman: Caped Crusader Review
With Caped Crusader, Bruce Timm, the producer who brought us the incredible Batman: The Animated Series in the 90s, tries to recapture lightning in a bottle, and just like the saying implies, it proves impossible. With an aesthetic that only deviates slightly from that seminal work and some real directorial brilliance, this iteration of Batman is sorely missing a key ingredient: Batman.
Comprised of just 10 episodes, Batman often feels like an afterthought. The first half of the season focuses almost entirely on its cadre of diverse, strong, independent women, and Batman is little more than a background curiosity or a plot catalyst. In later episodes, The World’s Greatest Detective shines a little more brightly, but these instances are the exception. This is a shame because much of what the series offers is quite good.
Batman: Caped Crusader boasts the same excellent animation as the 90’s series, only with today’s high fidelity. The direction and storytelling are crisp and engaging; for a cartoon, its characters are multi-dimensional and nuanced, and most of the voice acting is excellent. Unfortunately, the latter takes a major dive with the program’s lead. Hamish Linklater, who voices the titular Dark Knight, delivers an almost flawless Kevin Conroy impersonation… if Conroy had spoken in an emotionless and robotic monotone. It’s a flaw that ruins what precious little screen time Batman gets.
Ultimately, Batman: Caped Crusader is a forgettable and derivative entry into Batlore, lacking the dynamism and focus of its 90s predecessor or the distinctiveness and fun of series like the divisive The Brave and the Bold.
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James Carrick
James Carrick is a passionate film enthusiast with a degree in theater and philosophy. James approaches dramatic criticism from a philosophic foundation grounded in aesthetics and ethics, offering insight and analysis that reveals layers of cinematic narrative with a touch of irreverence and a dash of snark.
In just the first 8 minuets of episode 1 Barbara Gordon and commissioner Gordan were blackwashed ( meaning changing the color of there skin was changed ) and the Penguin got gender flipped ( meaning he is a girl now ) and Harvey Bullock is now an inside man to the Penguin and Alfred Pennyworth is now super fat!!! It manly focused on Barbara and nothing much of anything else sure batman was there just not that much. That was the woke stuff now on too the violent stuff the penguin through her son in a chest and thrown him in the water and later batman was going under the ship and there was thousand’s of chests and one was open and had a skeleton in it. Now on to the the inappropriate stuff one of the cops on the cruise joked about doing a pat down on the Penguin she said to him you can touch me any time you want then one of the cops said me next the cuss words in there were “crap, “oh my God ” “damn,” “ass,” “load of bull,” “freaking,” and “hell.” We could not get past the first episode don’t watch this tv series reboot the first episode SUCKS!!!!
Yes, you could definitely consider the show as woke. They took interesting turns with classic characters. Deviates greately from what you would expect. Still worth a watch.
Fat Alfred doesnt make sense to me.
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