DCfan
I recorded episodes of this show when I started Year 10 and finished it in April 2015.I have to say this show is funny, light-heart-ed and not just your typical Batman cartoon. But with team-ups.I would defiantly recommend this show to the new generation of DC fans and old as well.If you say this show can't be serious I would check out the episode "Chill of the night" that is definitely one of the darkest episodes.Only if Justice League Action and Teen Titans Go! were like this they would be likable shows.
ea-27312
Batman: The Brave and The Bold is a great batman & dc adaptation due to the fact that the series is very faithful to the source material and mainly based off of the golden age and silver age of the dc comic books eras. It had also paid a tribute to Bat-history as a whole through covering Silver Age- type scenarios like heroes and villains in a drag car race, but also touching on DC's Golden Age history(along with a couple of musical numbers). It introduced younger fans to the more obscure DC characters (B'wana Beast!), including some that had never been seen in an animated program before. Following last week's season finale, here's a look at the 10 best episodes of Batman: The Brave and the Bold during the show's three-year run. The episodes on this list embody the best that this show had to offer; ones that made you excited to be a fan of DC mythology and realize there's more to Batman than a brooding dark avenger.
Cheese Hoven
This series is an odd mixture. Mostly it is lightheated and sometimes even camp, with golden age superheroes (Green Arrow, Wildcat.Plastic Man, minor and rarely used villains (Kiteman, Dr Double X) and lots of throwaway quips. As such it conjures up old comic books and the 60s Batman TV series. This part of the series works well enough, in its own terms, as enjoyable not too serious fun. However, certain dark themes enter from time to time and seem completely out of place. In one episode, Batman in buried alive and has to fight demonic creatures in hell. This would be frightening to young children and ill judged. In other episodes, characters die and gruesome characters appear, which clashes with the cartoonishness of most of it. One odd juxtaposition is a teaser which consists of a scary Spectre dishing out a gruesome punishment to a criminal. This is followed by the main episode which has Batman team up with Detective Chimp and B'wana Beast in a comical adventure.That sums up the strange mixture that is The Brave and the Bold. Clownishness and dark morbidity side by side (hence the title of this review
dstager-1
I have to give this show very high marks for creativity and it rightfully has an honored spot in the DC Universe of things. Printed comic books today seem so unreadable and different from the days when these DC heroes were created. However, what we see in this show is more like the super heroes we know. In fact the show pays homage to so many heroes and characters and images from the Golden Age era to the modern era, it's pretty obvious that the people involved with this are passionate - the very element missing from printed comic books today.The Bruce Timm versions of Batman, Superman, Justice League/Unlimited etc., set a very high standard for writing and voice acting. I won't say this is better only that it is different, but well done in the same way. It's extremely hard to make a show like this for kids and yet still satisfy the long-time fans like myself. I can only say that the creators have satisfied this long time fan. They have struck just the right balance here.It is particularly creative they way old and obscure characters are properly developed and good stories are written around them. Fans will also appreciate the images and references from every single version of Batman from every media where he's ever appeared. Well done. These small things are invisible to kids but recognizable to the baby boomers.I really hope the next series is "World's Finest" which was the Superman/Batman comic from days gone by. "Batman: The Brave and the Bold" is like a good comic book from the days when comic books were good.If only someone would pay as much care and attention to the Marvel stable of heroes in animation as the creators of this series are doing with the DC stable. The only thing I took a star off for was because several voice actors, including the lead, are not speaking in their natural voices. Of course some actors, i.e., Corey Burton are skilled character voice actors and do great work here. I suppose we can all get spoiled with Kevin Conroy's Batman from the earlier shows - and he does make an appearance here as an alternate universe Batman.I do not know if the alternate universe story lines used in this series originate from modern comics -- but they are certainly adapted to great effect here and are the best of the bunch as far as the episodes go. I think the idea of the bad guys being good guys and the good guys being bad guys in alternate universes is done so well and develops the characters so creatively -- I just can say enough good things. Who would not be intrigued by "The Red Hood" -- a heroic version of the Joker? The minor heroes like Aquaman are likewise three-dimensional.It's worth a season pass on your Tivo for sure. Great work being done with this material.