Has anyone actually seen the dvd of the Batman movie with Burt Ward and Adam West's commentary? Worth it? (the $8 Canadian, I mean.)
To me, the Batman movie on DVD is definitely worth the low price (and more, because I bought it before it got cheap!).
The '66 movie was NOT the high point of the Adam West years; there are any number of first-season episodes that are more fun and better written. But the film does throw in everything but the kitchen sink; all four first-string baddies from the famous rogue's gallery, the amazing Batmobile and Bat-Cave, plus the Batcycle and Batcopter (both built for the movie thanks to its bigger budget, and later put to use on the show), Adam's only fight scene as Bruce Wayne (and it's a good one!), and of course the immortal "can't get rid of a bomb" gag.
I saw this film as a kid around 1973 or so on the ABC Sunday Night Movie, and it made me a Batman fan for life. So maybe nostalgia colors my judgment a bit, but again for 8 bucks Canadian, you can't go too wrong. The transfer is super-crisp and sharp with gorgeous colors and the music is terrific. The commentary by Adam and Burt is lots of fun and there's lots of it (I hate it when they pay guys to comment and they sit there quietly through most of the film). They also provide some fun sound bites for the various menus, etc. And there's a nice -- if historically suspect -- featurette about George Barris and the Batmobile.
If you have a sense of fun at all -- and if you didn't you wouldn't be here -- this movie is a great buy. However, Spawn-collecting, poly-bagging, Wizard-reading Frank Miller worshippers should save their money. (They'll need it for 900-number calls to their "girlfriends").
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