Batman: The Animated Series

I remember it. It was awesome. I especially liked the voice work and the animation it was so "dark" for a kids cartoon. the movie version wasn't bad either.

Updated On: 10/13/06 at 01:39 AM

Underrated? It's considered by many to be the finest adaptation from comics to screen in history and won an Emmy or two along the way, as well as completely creating a new visual style to super hero animation that's still being aped to this very day. Oh, and the DVD's sell extremely well. What is possibly underrated about this series? It was extremely successul and well-regarded critically and historically.

I think this has been one of the best shows on tv, period. The writing was often very good, the art/cinematography was excellent. Technically speaking, the universe it existed in also qualifies it as one of the longest running series... having ended recently with Justice League Unlimited. These shows (Batman the Animated Series, The New Batman Adventures, Superman the Animated Series, Batman Beyond, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited) and the films that spawned from them will be very hard to top. The only misstep in my opinion was "Superman: Brainiac Attacks".

Updated On: 10/13/06 at 12:21 PM

I LOVED this series when I was little, even though I wasn't into comic books at the time. I just remember that it felt so much more REAL than a lot of other series that played on Fox around that time of the afternoon. There are episodes that I distinctly remember beign geniunely frightening; the Scarecrow episodes in particular come to mind.

Then again, I couldn't watch "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" without freaking out.

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I loved that show. I remember when I was little I would dance to the opening credits. They just don't make cartoon shows like they used to. I think I still have a mini graphic novel of Mask of the Phantasm lying around somewhere.

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