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No matter what you thought of the last Batman film....
The adventure continues! In this third installment of the vintage serial, Batman: Robin’s Wild Ride, we find our heroes at Disneyland. After an ill-advised turkey leg and funnel cake combo, Robin upchucks on the Tea Cups, forcing Batman to go find a towel and apologize to several families. On his way back with the towel, Batman spots the sign for Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride and gets
Yeah. Comparing serials from the 40's to a modern $200 million project today is a tad uneven. But every media product has a quality scale for it's day. My greatest complaint with the Batman serials was it's utter laziness in writing. I can put on my fan glasses and accept the suits, sets, and choreographed fights for it's day. That's all well and good. But when I see Batman and Robin run out into the front yard of Bruce Wayne "manor" and jump in the car he drives, that's ridiculous even for the 40's. And then the only difference in Bruce's car and Batman's is when he puts the top up? Those kinds of things should have been looked at a tad closer even for it's day. The process might have been in it's infancy, but society wasn't that stupid.
I respect the Batman serials place in the character's history, but they are missing quite a bit to make them truly go over for me. They did give us the Batcave (or Bat's Cave) and skinny Alfred, so at least there is that. I liked Lewis Wilson's costume, but he was a bit too chubby. Robert Lowery was the better Batman, but those foamy horns didn't quite work for his mask, and actually looked more like the very earliest Batman, which is weird since this was 10 years later.
I prefer the Superman serials over these, despite the use of animation for flying. Maybe the template of the radio show to follow helped the Superman serials seem more legit.
I respect the Batman serials place in the character's history, but they are missing quite a bit to make them truly go over for me. They did give us the Batcave (or Bat's Cave) and skinny Alfred, so at least there is that. I liked Lewis Wilson's costume, but he was a bit too chubby. Robert Lowery was the better Batman, but those foamy horns didn't quite work for his mask, and actually looked more like the very earliest Batman, which is weird since this was 10 years later.
I prefer the Superman serials over these, despite the use of animation for flying. Maybe the template of the radio show to follow helped the Superman serials seem more legit.
Chris
I think your assessment is pretty much spot on...of course the Captain Marvel and Phantom serials are the best of them all in terms of quality.
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