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Adventures of Batman & Robin: Poison Ivy [VHS]

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This is one of the best Batman films I have ever seen! Two episodes from the outstanding series Batman the animated series, "Eternal Youth", and "House and Garden", both featuring intoxicating envirornmentalist/ botantist villainous Poison Ivy

The billion dollar company selling this video decided to shave a few cents off their cost by recording in LP rather that SP. It is a shame they did not produce a higher quality product.

Like Mr. Freeze in the current animated Batman continuity, Poison Ivy suffers from the harm dealt by the increasing industrialization and the encroachment of applied science in the natural world. Having said that, I also note that she lacks the tragic dimension that Mr. Freeze embodies--the stories present her more as an emotional creature given to hysteria. As a result, she seems more impulsive and childish than any of the other Batman Rogues Gallery. The fantastic science fiction elements of what she can make plants do (she has horticultural skills that would shock any biogeneticist) also undercut sympathy for her illness.

The tapes in this series because they are not recorded in SP mode. You will get fuzzy pictures and sound.

This is my favorite movie out of the Adventures of Batman and Robin series. Poison Ivy makes a very formidable adversary for Batman and I loved the first episode bt they should have used a different one for the second episode.