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Critic Reviews
SlashfilmJul 29, 2024
Jul 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Although Caped Crusader doesn’t reinvent Batman, it successfully draws from several eras of everyone’s favorite poorly adjusted superhero. Its film noir aesthetics, varied villains, and slightly less fatalistic turns create a series that stays true to its roots while finding enough of its own identity to avoid feeling entirely derivative.
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RogerEbert.comJul 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
While origin stories are undeniably overdone, the return to the basics here feels fresh after years of moody Batmen in film and television. It allows the writers to be playful with characters they’re reshaping in a way that marries versions of them from generations ago to something that would play for all audiences today.
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LooperJul 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
"Batman: Caped Crusader" kept my interest and excitement throughout without quite touching the "wow" factor that Bruce Timm's past animated series have achieved at their best moments. One rather brief season in, this show is just getting started. I'm glad a second season is already in the works and hope it has a chance to keep building from her.
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Jul 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Caped Crusader is willing to let its main character recede into the shadows so that it can provide a more fully fleshed-out sense of Gotham and the people who live there. But even if he’s often slinking around the edges of any given episode, this show’s Batman still feels complex, swaying between a compassionate desire for justice and an obsessive need for revenge.
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Aug 1, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The action is well staged, though less conversational scenes are no more fluid than “The Flintstones;” but the design is attractive, and there are nice painterly background effects here and there. .... The scripts are smart and animate what the animation doesn’t, and the whole production is more enjoyable than I would have imagined when I sat down to watch.
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Jul 30, 2024
Jul 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Most of its episodic villains are satisfyingly sharp, and it succeeds in balancing Batman's goofier lore with more grounded storylines. However, I won't pretend it's doing anything notably new. This show is well executed but conventional, remixing a winning formula in a way that should please a wide swathe of fans — but can't possibly have the same impact as its iconic predecessor.
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Jul 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
By the end of the season, they’ve assembled into a loose team, and the prospect of another outing with them feels more intriguing than not. But the stakes still feel lower than they ought, largely because the good guys still come across like sketches on a page rather than fully realized individuals with idiosyncrasies, vulnerabilities and desires of their own.
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Radio TimesJul 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Overall, Batman: Caped Crusader is a stylish but surprisingly simple series, feeling all too familiar in how it plays out. However, this will undoubtedly tick all the boxes for B:TAS fans, and will tide other Bat fans over until HBO’s The Penguin series this September.
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Jul 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
“Batman: Caped Crusader” has some serialized elements but its 10 episodes are mostly one-and-done crime capers. Of these, only one really digs into Bruce Wayne and his trauma. .... One could be forgiven for thinking Batman feels at times like an afterthought in his own show, but that’s as much a comment on the richness of the world he exists within as anything else.
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