Batman vs. Two-Face (2018) Online
Synopsis: Batman
(Adam West) and Robin (Burt Ward) have finally rounded up all of
Gotham’s worst criminals. When the dynamic duo accompany Commissioner
Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent (William Shatner) to Arkham Asylum,
they find that staff psychologist Hugo Strange has a rather reprehensible
reform regimen. Strange and his assistant Harleen Quinzel have created a device
that will remove the evil from these evil-doers, rehabilitating them whether
they want it or not. When the combined nefariousness of Batman’s
ne’er-do-well’s overloads the machine, Harvey Dent gets sprayed by a full dose
of evil, scarring his face and creating Two-Face, a villain obsessed with
dichotomy.
6 months later, Harvey has been apprehended
and given a new lease on life thanks to medical procedures bankrolled by
billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne. But has the evil truly left Harvey Dent? Or
will he turn the other cheek?
Bringing back the Batman ’66 television
universe in animated form seemed like a no-brainer. You had the voice talent
for many of the characters, and animation saves us the horror of 80 year old
men in tights. The old series is fondly, if not a bit ironically, remembered.
The comic book series that first kicked the old batmobile’s tires was
fantastic. Adding in villains that never made it to the series (either due
to oversight or them not plain existing when the show ran) adds a
new wrinkle to the tried and true Batman ’66 formula. Every
thing this series needed to *POW* *Biff* and *WHAMO* the audience is right
there in the movie’s utility belt.
Nothing in Batman vs. Two-Face is
incredibly interesting. Half (get it? Two-Face? I kill me) can be chalked up to
how many Bat-ventures we’ve had since the exploits of Adam West and Burt Ward.
So much of what happens in Batman vs. Two-Face has been done in Batman: The
Animated Series. And that series had a lot more action. It doesn’t hurt that
Two-Face is pretty weak as a rogue. He’s just the Joker minus the wicked
deviancy. Some of the samey-ness can be expected: EVERY Batman ’66 villain was
window dressing applied to generic death traps. They all had the same M.O.
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