Customer Reviews

Batfink: The Complete Series

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Excellent!!! Each episode was a campy but hysterical five-minute parody of the then-popular "Batman" TV show. The animation was cheap and simple, only two guys did all the voices, and yet this is one of the funniest, most under-rated cartoons of all time. It's all there; Batfink's supersonic sonar radar; his sidekick "Karate" (a fat bumbling jujitsu expert), arch-enemy Hugo-A-Go-Go (a very crooked mad scientist), and all the corny but clever jokes. There's still something quite hip about Batfink, in a 1967 kind of way. I'm glad this official version is finally being released in the states. Highly recommended, although as you can probably tell by my name I'm a bit biased.

I remember watching this show in the early 70's in black and white as a kid. Great to now see it in color, and in great quality.

Sound and picture quality is great, viewed on an 86cm plasma.

Would've given it 5 stars, but I'm a bit dissapointed with how they've re-edited the opener.
I remember it started off with Karate and Batfink in the Batalac coming out of a cave. The theme song (which was sung) started like "The Batalac is ready is a wonder car...etc". This is not there. No singing opening. It's all cut with different music and shortened. It's such a real shame as I thought I was getting the classic Batfink shows. Why did they do this? I was really looking forward to it.

A friend told me that the real opening is on YouTube. I checked it out and it's there. See it for yourself. This is what I was expecting to see on the DVD. The show, as it was.

The menu actually features the real opening music that was at the end of the theme song that was over the title of the episode.

I think each cartoon goes for about 6 minutes. I'm not sure because the disc doesn't display any time or chapter details(really weird), and I timed it with a watch without a second hand.

Nice packaging but I find the discs are always displaced when I open the case. (Two discs per 'soft thin' case, so they are very close together. Just be careful that one of the discs doesn't drop out. Easy to do.)

I'm still glad I purchased this DVD because of the show that I loved long ago. They're still fun and I actually got a good laugh from some of them, but didn't think it was worth $32.00.

When you want to suprize someone, this is perfect. So on a cold day outside you can slip back through nostalia to your childhood.

This cartoon had me remembering what I was doing when first aired. I was remembering where I was living, my school and friends from then. To be young again is priceless.

Still quite entertaining but definately a kids cartoon. I bought it as childhood memoribilia and it's worthwhile for that.

Great to see this cartoon bring back memories, a 4 Disc set great packaging. Love those old classic cartoons another one to my collection. Big Tick for this set.

I just ordered my copy. I will not watch it until the first Saturday morning after receiving it, while eating a bowl of Captain Crunch Cereal (I don't really like cold cereal anymore, and that's the only one I can eat and enjoy). And for a couple of BATFINK episodes, I'm going to be a kid again!

DVD's like this should be viewed for the same reason that you view family photos albums, to bring back good memories.

I can, 'vaguely' remember me and the other young boys on our block playing 'super hero' and getting into fights about who would be BatFink, because we all wanted to be him. I know it sounds stupid, but we were kids.

We didn't have jobs, we didn't have to pay rent our go to work yet. Our biggest problems were homework and waiting for Christmas to come. That's probable one of the 'biggest' reasons for retro shows like this continuing to have a small, yet fanatically loyal fan-base. They remind us of simpler times.

By the way, I purchased this 'new' from a second party vendor on this site, not Amazon like I normally do. I really do want a copy of this show, but I'm not going to pay thirty dollars for it. You can buy a newly released movie for less than that.

I know that Batfink is really more of a satire than a true action adventure series for children but there are times when the episodes get really repetitive. Every episode the same catchphrases are repeated and Batfink's superpowers come out at just the right second. One has to wonder how he gets captured. Does he forget he can use his super powers or does he just like getting captured.

If you are into nostalgia and you saw the show as a kid or, like me, saw it on Boomerang then by all means check it out. It's just too corny and predictable for the rest of the population.

I expected something else when I bought this cartoon, and was disappointed. it didnt impress me to tell you the truth, not even my kids liked it.