BATMAN THE MOVIE(1966) | MOVIE REACTION | OUR FIRST TIME WATCHING | ADAM WEST | BURT WARD | CLASSIC🦇

[@ResinBabes]

'Somedays you just can't get rid of a bomb!" Best line ever.

[@flnthrn2]

Holy beat me to it, Batman.

[@AlanCanon2222]

And it has proven true down to the present day.

[@derekramsaroup3883]

Adam West's comic timing and his deadpan delivery was pure genius ...

[@nsasupporter7557]

This was also a Tv show, not only a movie

[@Wellch]

10:35 who is driving the helicopter?

[@docsavage8640]

@nsasupporter7557 false. There was a 1966 feature film as well. They could get Julie Newmar so Lee Meriwether played Catwoman instead

[@nsasupporter7557]

@@docsavage8640 I know that! when did I not say it was a film??

[@Ghost8386]

Cesar Romero was the first actor to portray the Joker in live-action in the 1966 Batman TV series. I’m 40 years old and spent my childhood enjoying reruns of the Batman TV series and movie from 1966.

[@toodlescae]

Same Bat Time. Same Bat Channel. It may have been corny but it was fun. Watched the show every week as a kid even though I was only 5.

[@bobbuethe1477]

The way that Frank Gorshin's Riddler could instantly switch from hysterical laughter to quietly threatening and back, made him seem dangerously unstable, and to me the most frightening of the villains. There was a novel published around the time of this movie, with the same quartet of villains: "Batman vs. the Fearsome Foursome."

[@jamesoblivion]

Yes! We all think of the manic Frank Gorshin Riddler, but it was those moments of quiet menace, and the jarring bipolar switches, that made him such a great villain. He didn't have to pose a physical threat, he was psychologically intimidating because he seemed truly unhinged.

[@AlanCanon2222]

I was very young watching Batman in re runs (1970s) and I remember being genuinely creeped out by the Riddler. I was just at the age where I was starting to figure out the show was just for laughs, perhaps 4 or 5 years old.

[@seansmith6255]

Best live action riddler by far

[@skinheadjon901]

"some days you just can't get rid of a bomb!!!!" - the best line from any Batman media. Like & subscribed 👍

[@skinheadjon901]

Return To The Batcave should be your next Adam West/Burt Ward movie.....thank me later. 🌞🦇😎🙌👍

[@ScreamingScallop]

Romero (Joker), Meredith (Penguin) and Gorshin (Riddler) were utterly phenomenal.

[@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935]

I like to think Jack nickleson and mark Hamill incorporated bits of Ceasar romeros laugh/character.

[@robertroberto2487]

Catwoman(Lee) Villainous Role Part, Batman Movie Duel Role Is Pure Entertainment.

[@AubreyAuthor]

I grew up watching reruns and this movie recorded off TV. Adam West will always be my favorite Batman.

[@AlanCanon2222]

Has anyone else played Batman since? I forget.

[@Ghost8386]

RIP Alan Napier, Adam West, Albert Carrier, Burgess Meredith, Cesar Romero, Dick Crockett, George Sawaya, Gregory Gaye, Gil Perkins, Harry W. Gerstad, Leslie H. Martinson, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Madge Blake, Maurice Dallimore, Milton Frome, Neil Hamilton, Nelson Riddle, Reginald Denny, Stafford Repp, Teru Shimada, Van Williams, and William Dozier.

[@tommiller4895]

Great review! I am 68 years old and I was nice to see young people who can appreciate the Batman (the Light Knight) that I grew up with. In the 1940's they filmed 2 Batman and Robin Serials. Serials were a movie told in multiple chapters that were shown at theaters, one chapter each week. Each chapter ended in a cliffhanger that put the main characters in life threatening danger. This was to get you to come back to the theater the next week to see how and if they survive in the next chapter.

[@Somehiguy]

this is the Batman I knew best, between the tv show and movie. this era of batman was great. the comedy was called camp or campy, and so much different then the batmans of today. any way just some old guy throwing in his opinion /Cheers

[@DuncanEvans-t7q]

The Batman Trinity: West, Keaton, Conroy

[@dorememe8548]

We still use the word campy. Lots of love. ❤

[@silverhairedgamer]

@@dorememe8548 Adam West called it "The Theater of the Absurd".

[@joekerr7975]

"If you want an education in labeling watch this movie!" 😂

[@AlanCanon2222]

BAT SPRAY SHARK REPELLENT

[@Xenaboy-vt3hi]

I was 8 when this movie came out. The Batman show started in January, 1966 as a mid-season replacement show so it was a short season. They started filming this as soon as the first season ended and it was in theatres starting July 30. So it was filmed, edited and released with a few months. I've loved lots of versions of Batman but, because this was my introduction to the character, I think this is still my favorite. The only thing missing was Julie Newmar playing Catwoman. Though she played Catwoman in the first season and in some later episodes, she opted to take another movie offer instead of this one.

[@c1ph3rpunk]

I’m glad YT tossed this up in my feed, not many people react to this one. As a kid in the 70’s, and a teen in the early 80’s, this was an afterschool staple. I was guaranteed reruns of Adams Family, Munsters, Beverly Hillbillies, Hogan’s Heroes, Wild Wild West, Bewitched, Star Trek (TOS), Monkees and of course, Batman. For many, Adam West will forever be our Batman.

[@GroovyMee]

There are 2 animated movies called Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016) and Batman vs. Two-Face (2017) you guys have to watch. Most of the living actors at the time came back to voice their characters and they kinda spoof themselves in good fun.

[@dereckabackus5411]

Adam West and Burt ward also reprised their roles as the caped crusaders in two part tv specials called The Legend of Superheroes in 1979. West didn’t like his appearances in those tv specials .

[@jons.105]

Holy Movie Reaction, Snoopers! This is great fun!

[@Progger11]

This film and the accompanying series were works of true comedic genius. Hardly anyone did camp better than this talented group.

[@shampoovta]

Every star in Hollywood wanted to get a guest shot on BATMAN. 😄

[@enchantedwooddesigns3462]

As old as I am. The replays on tv a few years later I can remember as a kid. The tv show theme and the theme from The Monkeeys replay as well and The Lion Sleeps Tonight from the radio were the first songs I knew so much )

[@chimera3hydra12]

I was born in 1970, just a few years after the series ended, but it was my favorite show at age 3! I used to run down the hall, imitating Batman and Robin as they ran toward the camera at the very beginning of the opening credits and wearing a cape! Anyway, I can tell you a few interesting things about the series, if I can decide where to begin: 1. For the first two seasons, the episodes of Batman consisted mostly of 2-part "cliffhanger" episodes; at the end of part 1, Batman and Robin (or just one of them, or occasionally another significant character) would be captured by the villain and put into some kind of "death trap," with the narrator (William Dozier, who also produced the series) reading a captioned suspenseful message asking how the captives would get out of their predicament. At the beginning of part 2, Batman would (usually) escape by his own skills or devices and free Robin (if they were both in the trap), or by sheer dumb luck. When I say "cliffhanger episode," I'm referring to both parts together. A couple of cliffhanger episodes were three episodes long! 2. Burt Ward's manhood was thought to bulge in his Robin costume too much for the censors' comfort, so they had to put some kind of padding into his costume to counter the bulge. 😳 3. Burgess Meredith, who played the Penguin (and Mickey Goldmill, Rocky's trainer in the first three movies), had quit smoking more than 20 years before he started playing the Penguin, and while playing the role, the smoke would often get caught in his throat and throw him into a coughing fit. Rather than ruin takes due to coughing, he developed the Penguin's signature laugh and squawk to cover it up. 4. Caesar Romero refused to shave off his signature mustache when playing the Joker. If you look closely at his face, you can see his mustache underneath his white makeup. 5. One time when Frank Gorshin (the Riddler) was unavailable to play the part due to commitment to another project, a cliffhanger episode was filmed with the Ridder being played by John Astin, who played Gomez Addams on the series The Addams Family. Unsurprisingly, Gorshin was furious when he found out about this. IMO, although Astin was fantastic as Gomez Addams, his portrayal of the Riddler left something to be desired. However, Gorshin still played the Ridder a few more times before the series was cancelled. 6. Carolyn Jones, who played Morticia Addams in The Addams Family, played a villainess named Marsha, Queen of Diamonds, in two cliffhanger episodes. 7. Catwoman was originally played for the first two seasons by Julie Newmar, an actress well known for her shapely figure and sexy legs. She would've reprised the role in the movie, but she had suffered a back injury, so the role went to Lee Meriwether (a former Miss America winner in 1955, and the secretary of Buddy Ebsen's character in the crime drama Barnaby Jones). Season Two began after the movie was released, and Newmar continued her role. When Season Three was approaching, Newmar landed a part on a Western titled "Mackenna's Gold," which took up a lot of her time, so the role of Catwoman went to singer-actress Eartha Kitt (very appropriate name) for the third and final season of the series. 8. Catwoman wasn't the only character to be played by three different actors. Mr. Freeze, who appeared three times in the whole series, was played first by George Sanders (who voiced Shere Khan the tiger in Disney's The Jungle Book), then by actor/director Otto Preminger (who voiced the elf king in Rankin/Bass's version of The Hobbit, 1977), and finally by Eli Wallach (who starred in "Baby Dolls" and "The Misfits," two movies that were popular in their day, although they were not only before your times, they were before MY time)! Lol 9. Some Batman villains, like Two-Face, Poison Ivy, and Scarecrow, never appeared in the series, but there were several non-canonical villains in the series who were played by well-known actors and actresses. Among these were (a super genius played by Vincent Price), (a Western-themed outlaw, a parody of Shane, played by Cliff Robertson, who played Peter Parker's Uncle Ben in the first Spider-Man movie with Tobey Maguire), (an amnesiac Egyptology professor who, went hit on the head, believes himself to be the reincarnation of the Egyptian pharaoh, played [quite well, I might add] by Victor Bueno), and the Mad Hatter (based on the redheaded "impostor" Mad Hatter in the comics, who is obsessed with collecting the hats of the jurors who convicted him of a crime and sent him to prison, including Batman, whose cowl he wants the most, played by actor David Wayne). Ok, so the last one is actually canonical. My bad.

[@jamesstone2107]

Burgess Meredith played Penguin also played mickey Rocky’s manager in the movie Rocky.

[@Starboi_420]

Yep Thts right…RIP Burgess

[@silverhairedgamer]

"You're going to eat lightning and crap thunder!"

[@torontomame]

And Goldie Hawn's landlord in the wonderful Foul Play.

[@AlanCanon2222]

He was in EVERYTHING. Clash of the Titans (1981) is my fave flick of his.

[@silverhairedgamer]

@@AlanCanon2222 "By the gods!"

[@davida.j.berner776]

Campy, kitschy, and so much knowing, tongue-in-cheek fun! This film was despised by many comic fans for the longest time. The general consensus was that it ruined the reputation of Batman, but in reality it captured the tone of the 1960s comics pretty accurately - taken to the extreme, without a doubt, but not by as much as many liked to pretend!

[@porflepopnecker4376]

Yes, I always thought it captured the Bob Kane era and that of Carmine Infantino and others. Then Neal Adams and Denny O'Neill came along and changed the game forever.

[@Progger11]

​@@porflepopnecker4376Deni*

[@johnathanstruble1064]

In mid 70s I was 5-8 years old, and after a rough day at school, I'd rush home ( well I'd ask the school bus driver to push it ) so I could catch the series in reruns...the movie would play on a Saturday morning occasionally....what great memories. My teen sister at the time , would switch it over to Original Star Trek series as soon as Batman was over.. I didn't get it then , but 56 years later, huge Trekkie!

[@BryanMcdonough-gl9hm]

Rest In Peace Reginald Denny 1891-1967 Madge Blake 1899-1969 Maurice Dallimore 1912-1973 Bill Finger 1914-1974 Stafford Repp 1918-1974 Dick Crockett 1915-1979 Neil Hamilton 1899-1984 Nelson Riddle 1921-1985 Teru Shimada 1905-1988 Alan Napier 1903-1988 Milton Frome 1909-1989 William Dozier 1908-1991 Gregory Gaye 1900-1993 Cesar Romero 1907-1994 Burgess Meredith 1907-1997 Bob Kane 1915-1998 Gil Perkins 1907-1999 Albert Carrier 1919-2002 Harry W Gerstad 1909-2002 George Sawaya 1923-2003 Frank Gorshin 1933-2005 Jack LaLanne 1914-2011 Lorenzo Semple Jr 1923-2014 Leslie H Martinson 1915-2016 Van Williams 1934-2016 and Adam West 1928-2017

[@chazdarvy1507]

I watched this movie daily as a kid in the 80s

[@nsasupporter7557]

What about the tv show?? This was both a movie and tv show

[@altaclipper]

​@nsasupporter7557 The television show was the 60's, not the 80's.

[@nsasupporter7557]

@@altaclipper When did I ever say it was the 80s?? I’m very confused

[@altaclipper]

@@nsasupporter7557Yes, you are confused. No one said you said it was the eighties. That was the original poster.

[@nsasupporter7557]

@@altaclipper ok so then why did you tell me that it wasn’t the 80s?? That’s what I’m confused about… I never said it was the 80s and you acted like that’s what I said. I think you were confused first and then you confused me with your misunderstanding

[@ajivins1]

When I was a kid I had the Corgi Toys set of Batmobile and Batboat. Later, they included the Batcopter.

[@billpike-cn5pz]

Me, too. And the plastic flame went in and out of the exhaust as the wheels turned.

[@ajivins1]

@@billpike-cn5pz My Robin was thinning, though!

[@aliceharper707]

My brothers and I never missed an episode of Batman. I'm almost 70 and I can still remember sitting down and just waiting for Batman to come on. It was that and Lost in space at the time and then after that we had Star Trek so the '60s was an amazing time for TV! Not to mention I dream of Jeanie!

[@DanJackson1977]

The TV show this came from is even better. And the HD remasters look like they were shot last week

[@billpike-cn5pz]

I give the girl credit for knowing that Johnson was president in 1966.

[@docsavage8640]

I give the American public blame for electing him in 1964.

[@billpike-cn5pz]

@@docsavage8640 Kennedy worship. "Jack would want this..."

[@SeeMore-ki7mq]

Thank you for reacting to this I love this film and the series. A very positive and hilarious response to an old movie.

[@MZ-bl6wg]

This was the most awesome thing on earth when my dad was little so I grew up watching it, such wholesome entertainment I LOVE IT!

[@orlandoruizjr3834]

As someone who was a little kid in the 1980s, I remember thinking this TV show was cool and loving it. However, everyone knew this show was silly. The character had evolved beyond this point in the comics by the 80s. So when movie trailer for the 1989 film came out, we were all blown away. Tim Burton's Batman was something we hadn't seen before. Since then, it has become the template of how Batman is done in the movies. The closest we ever got to Batman 66 from then on were the Schumacher films, which I think deserve more love. Especially Batman Forever.

[@stanleymoremi1709]

my childhood all over again cos growing up in Sweden my dad would always call me to watch with him.......back when VCR's were still a thing thank you guys😪

[@HarrisFredrick]

Holy Snoopers Gonna Snoop Batman. I grew up on this thanks to my dad. My brother and I would watch this all the time. It still gets me that Burgess Meredith played both the Penguin as well as Mickey in the Rocky series. I’m loving the reaction so far. This is the beta test for Batman: unchained without the court stuff. Peace yaw.

[@Rick-c5s]

I thoroughly enjoyed watching you guys get a kick out of the DC classic... You were able to appreciate for what is was... ❤

[@biguy617]

They recast Catwoman because Julie Newmar had a schedule conflict. But she does return in the animated movie, Return of the Cape Crusader.

[@UncleCharlie111x2]

Lee Meriwether who played Cat Woman won the 1955 Miss America and is still with us at 89 years old! She was gorgeous in this movie!

[@motleyh9427]

My favorite Batman

[@shawnzzz]

This was fun for me watching the both of you THOUROGHLY loving this great Batman movie. As you can imagine, when this came out in the 60's, people just ate it up. The whole tone of the movie with Batman & Robin being responsible civil servants is awesome. Sure there are a lot of goofy things in it but that is what made it funny.

[@jamesoblivion]

In the comics, Batman started out very grim and gritty in 1939, but soon grew more lighthearted, and by the 1950s, he was having a lot of fights with goofy aliens and robots. In the 1970s, Denny O'Neill returned the character to his roots, bringing back the gritty tone, sending Robin off to college, and re-establishing Batman as world class detective and a grim lone avenger. Villains like Joker and Two-Face, who hadn't been used in years, returned with a vengeance, deadlier than ever. That trend continued into the 1980s with the gritty Batman stories of writers like Frank Miller and Alan Moore...and with Batman getting a new Robin, only for him to be murdered by Joker, which would fuel his vengeance for decades to come. It's an interesting cyclic evolution for Batman, from dark, to silly, and back around to dark.

[@Narutoanime16g]

I love how funny this movie is & how funny Adam west & Burt ward are as Batman & Robin but also they show how smart they both are at figuring stuff out & it’s just a fun great time. Happy Batman day ya’ll ! & some of the Sean Conory James Bond movies are pretty good too like early 80’s & 90’s ish

[@Bruce-Wayne79]

Since we going old school, Fireworks you gotta show Whiite Gold the Christopher Reeve Superman movies and the 90’s Flash tv show with John Wesley Shipp, Danny Elfman did the music for the this Flash show. There are some free Flash Episodes on KZbin, last time I checked. To continue y’all’s DC Universe journey.

[@chandler2814]

Was born in 97 and I still grew up watching this show and the movie along with a plethora of other shows/movies Bless the daja va channel

[@terrylandess6072]

I enjoyed this version/series immensely as a second grader when it aired. One must remember I was the target audience. Today they make things more adult while figuring what rating they can push.

[@kennethmitchell298]

Finally!! I have been wondering when reactors were going to get to this fantastically awesome movie. Maybe you guys will get the ball rolling at last!!

[@antonbrakhage490]

I think my favourite line is when Batman tells the villains that if they hurt his date, he'll kill them all. He actually sounds menacing, and it stands out because Adam West Batman is not usually like that. But he absolutely could have played a "serious" Batman if that had been the style back then.

[@michaelschroeck2254]

This classic movie brought us such hits as “bat shark repellent “ and “ some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb!”’

[@kevinburton3948]

36:38 The entire "bomb" sequence and "Some days you just can't rid of a bomb!" line is absolute comedy gold!

[@aliceharper707]

I got to meet Adam West in the '90s and he was so personable and very nice.

[@p.mc.4449]

I just found this video. So glad to see someone react to this movie. In the tv series, a two-part episode has a team up with the Green Hornet and during that series, Bruce Lee was Kato. There's also a tv movie called Back to the Bat-Cave. It's kind of a documentary in Adam and Burt's memories in story telling form. It's well worth watching.

[@TheNeonRabbit]

There was a crossover episode on the series where Batman fought The Green Hornet, which meant Robin had to fight Bruce Lee. Robin lost.

[@porflepopnecker4376]

I got a real kick out of your positive reaction to this off-kilter classic. As a kid, I was a fanatical part of the "Batmania" craze generated by the TV series (which you would probably enjoy very much, especially the first two seasons), and remember the joy of seeing this movie in a theater packed with other wildly enthusiastic kids. As an adult, I appreciate it in a different way, savoring the absolutely deadpan humor and how the actors play it so painfully straight (except for the bad guys, who were allowed to go wild). The oldest screen version of Batman would be the two chapter serials, "Batman" and "Batman and Robin", which were released to theaters in the 40s and are now available on DVD or KZbin. They were so ridiculous, yet played so straight, that it's thought they were a big inspiration on the TV series and its brand of humor. By the way, many reactors wonder why Nicolas Cage talks the way he does as Big Daddy in "Kickass" -- I'm pretty sure he's imitating West's stilted delivery as Batman.

[@KennyThisIsTheWay2024]

Hey guys thanks for watching Adam west Batman. Adam was already my fav Batman when I was a kid and his birthday was a few days ago🎉🦇 Sadly I never got a chance to meet him. I want to tell that he was my favorite Batman and I wanted to ride a Batmobile with him.😢😢😢 But your reaction cheer me up because I like that you like the villains together and the gadgets and the vehicles yeah I have seen the vehicles and took pictures with them including the costumes of the Batman Robin and the villains. I watch this series the only made season 3, Trust me you'll love it. But I'm glad you all admit that you love this Batman, Adam is the reason we have the Batman of Michael Keaton and then the other batman's. I watched this bad and every single month plus my dad grew up watching and he saw one of the scenes of the bat episodes !!

[@Llanchlo]

Mid sixties Batman was huge in the UK. Every boy's dream was to have a Batmobile along with kit from the Man from Uncle, and a full set of trading cards. The tone was very different from modern incarnations but was a fair reflection of the comics of the day.

[@bullseyecello]

As a Gen Z Adam West was my introduction to Batman

[@terpcj]

The series was gold. Two episodes a week (Wednesdays and Thursdays, if I remember correctly), most of them two-parters. Same Bat-time. Same Bat-station. Only a few of the villains (one-offs and recurring) were sub-par. It's amazing how big it was -- there was Batman merch everywhere (I had my fair share). Making it campy was so genius that even now, almost sixty years later, it stands out. (That Caesar Romero wouldn't shave his moustache and they simply put his white Joker face paint over it just adds even more flavor.)

[@bobbuethe1477]

Most of the season 1 episodes were based on stories from the Batman comic books. In seasons 2 & 3, the TV writers mostly created their own new villains, a lot of whom were pretty bland -- arguably except for King Tut and Egghead.

[@aliceharper707]

You're right about Batman going dark. It didn't happen until the '80s or '90s. Batman was always a good guy. I remember every weekend and the 60 mid-60s going to the store and buying the newest episode of the Justice League of America and or Batman and Wonder woman and Superman. I had so many comic books! My dad got mad at us one day though and told us we should be reading the Bible instead of comic books and he took our huge box of comics from 1966 onward. You know first edition comics and took them to the dump and burned them.😮

[@LordEriolTolkien]

as a kid in the 70's the reruns of the original series were a part of all our lives

[@krdragon6950]

The Batman tv show was a 30 minutes long and it aired Wednesday and Thursday night. The Wednesday night episode would ended in a cliffhanger where Batman and Robin are in some kind of death trap, and the next episode they would get out of it somehow.

[@wombatwilly1002]

Cesar Romero refused to shave his mustache so if you look closely you can see his mustache under the white face paint..lol

[@timroebuck3458]

Lyndon Johnson was President in 1966.

[@barbarjinx3802]

Waited until I got my Lego 66 Batmobile to watch this. I grew up on this show and loved it

[@altaclipper]

There was a time when this was the only Batman. I'm another one who grew up on the TV show and we knew it was goofy but we loved it.

[@bobmathis-friedman6742]

The 60's Batman series was actually a spoof of 1950's Batman comics; the first two Seasons consisted entirely of two-part stories, with Part One ending in cliffhangers; celebrities lined up to play "special guest villains, with stars ranging from Academy Award winning actress Shelly Winters to Liberace, to even guest star vigilante Kato played by Bruce Lee; if I had to pick one story from each season to recommend ,they'd be: 1. Season 1, Eps. 5 &6...The Joker Is Wild/Batman Is Riled. 2. Season Two, Eps. 35&36... That Darn Catwoman/Scat Darn Catwoman (with special guest villain's sidekick Pussycat, played by Leslie Gore ["It's My Party And I'll Cry If I Want To"]; Season Three, Ep. 1...Enter Batgirl, Exit Penguin (by this time, most of the stories were single-part episodes), and Ep. 2...Ring Around The Riddler (with a cameo from Special Guest Villainess the Siren, played by Joan Collins[Dynasty]).

[@AstroXeno]

This movie was made waaaay before WB had anything to do with DC Comics. Not only did 20th Century Fox make the movie, they also made the TV show- for CBS. And with the zillion and one guest stars- half of whom were dead by the time DVDs came out- all having signed their contracts long before anyone ever conceived of home video, there were many of us who thought they'd never get all the royalties on the TV show sorted out in our lifetimes. (The movie was out on DVD by the early 2000s, but we had Blu-Ray by the time the TV series came out) The final obstacle was waiting out William Dozier's grand daughter, who had vowed never to sign off on a home video version of the show.

[@biguy617]

RIP Burgess Meredith

[@hawkmaster381]

An interesting fact about Frank Gorshen, the Riddler. He used to have a monologue act in night clubs, and he was a heavy smoker. Adam West once said Frank could draw a freshly-lit cigarette down to ashes in one draw.

[@3DJapan]

"Batman got his start here". Actually Batman was in movie theater serials in the 1930s, you can find them on KZbin.

[@samguberman2288]

I saw this in the cinema when it came out. I was 8 years old. Its still so great and funny.

[@TheRManProds]

YES BATMAN DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@bobbuethe1477]

I was in first grade when Batman started on TV. I had discovered comic books the previous summer, and this movie came out the next summer. Seeing the stories that I had read in the comics retold on the screen was a big deal to me, and I remain a comic book fan to this day. BTW, Batgirl first appeared -- both in comics and on TV -- just a little more than a year after this movie.

[@Misitheus]

I saw this in the theater as a kid...which means I'm old............🤣....Peace!

[@otaku-sempai2197]

The 1966 BATMAN (both movie and television show) was inspired both by the two Batman chapter serials -- BATMAN (1943) and BATMAN AND ROBIN (1949) -- and by the cheesy Silver-Age comics of the 1950s and early '60s. Batman actually started out pretty dark in the comics, being heavily influenced by such pulp heroes as The Shadow. In the early comics, Batman carried a gun and wasn't above killing his opponents.

[@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935]

I grew up watching both the animated series and the adam west series. My dad would record old episodes that aired late at night on vhs and id watch em when i could.

[@claytonmaisonneuve9206]

Adam west did a couple cartoons right before he passed where he was batman again in this universe they are well worth the watch

[@reesebn38]

When I was a little kid this was like Shakespeare. You should watch the making of the show. You will see just how big this show was in the 60s. Adam West was loved his fans so much he made sure he slept with all of them. If you want to see how great Adam was watch the a scene from the show where Bruce Wayne talks to Batman over the phone.

[@NarnianRailway]

Another fun quirk of the 60s series was the tilted camera for the villain's lair and fight scenes. Hope you have opportunity to watch some tv episodes... Same Bat Time Same Bat Channel!

[@Knick_Fury]

This version was a classic…campy and fun. Note…there were 3 different actors who played Catwoman…Julie Newmar, Eartha Kitt and Lee Merriweather. You guys should also check out the TV series “The Green Hornet” which had the same general production style and featured martial arts legend Bruce Lee as “Kato”.

[@anthonyb27]

It's good to see more people reacting to older movies.

[@WVRSpenceWestVirginiaRebel]

Batman, Batman, Batman... West is the ultimate campy Batman.

[@JAYWALKER1000]

Go back and check Batman Forever - Robin says, "Holy metal!" and Batman looks strangely disturbed - until Robin explains they're standing on metal with holes in it. Definite Easter egg for this version.

[@JAYWALKER1000]

Of course she's Catwoman - even as Kitka she's wearing a leopard spotted outfit.

[@KenMinor-ek1xs]

In the 60s, it was the 3 bees.Batman underwear the beatles and bond

[@3DJapan]

7:05 The a Ghostbusters lived in an old fire station, that's why they have a pole.

[@TheNeonRabbit]

True but it didn't automatically change their clothes when they slid down it.

[@collinthegoodguy]

@SnoopersGonnaSnoop actually Batman started out as a dark character when he was first created back in the 1930s and actually killed people but then people started complaining about him being too dark for kids so DC comics went and made him family friendly which led to the 1960s Batman tv series starring Adam West. It wasn't until the release of the dark knight returns graphic novel created by Frank Miller in the 1980s that Batman became a dark character again.

[@ldkusa71]

Actually during the late 60's after the Batman t.v. series ended, the Batman comic books under Denny O'Neil's writing returned Batman to his more serious dark roots.

[@jamesoblivion]

Having a movie budget gave the producers a chance to make the Batcopter and Batboat, footage of which was added to subsequent episodes of the series, to increase the production value.

[@Jose.Q_]

Ooh man yah went ol school with the OG Adam West/Batman , between this show and the other live action shows that I grew up on like Nicholas Hammond that played as the OG Peter Parker/Spider-Man on the live action The Amazing spider Man TV show , Lou ferrigno as the incredible hulk , Lynda Carter as Wonder woman live action TV show , to this day I still feel like those shows are 🔥

[@mikeclemens795]

Still the coolest Batmobile.

[@Lethgar_Smith]

I was five years old when I went to see this in the theater with my friends. After the movie was over we agreed the film was pretty good but that shark definitely looked fake.

[@jonbolton3376]

I grew up in the 80s in the UK with this series on tv weekday mornings before school. I saw this film on tv about a year later, and have loved it since. This also includes my favourite version of Joker and Riddler. Thanks to Batman Returns, i have a different favourite Catwoman and Penguin. In the actual series Catwoman was played by a few different actresses, most often by Julie Newmar. Cesar Romero and Burgess Meredith always played Joker and Penguin. Frank Gorshin who was in this played Riddler in the majority of his episodes.

[@exodia9817]

48:57-48:59 Love Joker's urgency in his body moments

[@3DJapan]

I was in pre-school around 1981 and this show came on TV every afternoon. All the boys would gather around to watch. No idea what the girls did. LOL

[@Wellch]

Girls, what did you do???

[@kenb51960]

the catwoman is a former Miss America of 1955 and the Penguin played Mickey Rockys trainer in the Rocky movies and that Batmobile sold at Barrett Jackson for over 4 million dollars

[@paulmohr319]

The TV show was so big that they filmed the movie between the 1st and 2nd season. You should check out the series. Check out Pop Goes the Joker. Might surprise you. You mentioned the Sinister Six. My 1966 Sinister Six for Batman would be. Penguin, Riddler, the Joker, Catwoman, Mr. Freeze, and King Tutt.

[@Letsreallybefrank]

Yo, you guys have the best themes. Can we please you guys to watch some more nostalgic stuff like the Halloweentown trilogy and Twitches

[@Illustrator-dq3nv]

If you really enjoyed this, I highly recommend buying the entire tv series on dvd or Blu-ray…great fun great childhood memories!

[@dngillikin]

The sixties Batman is a combination of wacky fifties Batman with the visual aesthetic of post-1964 "New Look" Batman. Then, after the campy Batman series was cancelled, Denny O'Neill and Neal Adams revamped comics Batman to make him darker and more serious. Then in 1986, Frank Miller revamped the character again to make him even more grimdark and gritty.

[@BobbyG716]

At somepoint please check out the very first Batman from 1943 and than Batman and Robin from 1949. Both are serials

[@chadking1938]

I use to watch the show when I was a kid. Didn't think much of the tone of Batman at that time and the theme was stuck in my head. This movie here is like a tv show split to 3 parts as you grow up and re-watching it. Adam West will always be known as the light knight Batman.

[@robquin1525]

I'm so lucky I had this on DVD when I was in first grade in the early 2000s. I grew up on several Batmans Kevin Conroy Adam West's, And as a guilty pleasure George Clooney and Val kilmer, (we still had those ones on VHS) Christian Bale of course was the one I was saw in theaters as a kid.