Friday, October 28, 2005
Batman vs Dracula
I've been catching bits and pieces of Batman vs Dracula: The Animated Movie on Cartoon Network. It looks pretty solid. It has some of the mose clever choreographed fight sequences I have seen in a cartoon, and the confrontation between the Prince of Darkness and the Dark Knight is quite exciting (though one has to wonder how guys the likes of Quincy Harker or Van Helsing could have gone head to toe with Vlad, given how much trouble Bruce has with him). The opening is a little weaker, when the deus ex machina is revealed in an incredibly obvious manner and Dracula's use of the overly used alias "Alucard" (Does the World's Greatest Detective really need to write this backwards and look at in a mirror in order to spell it out?). Nevertheless, it's solid entertainment, and surprisingly adult in nature, but I think that has been the trend in DC Comic character animation ever since Batman: The Animated Series first premiered.BTW, I really dig the new retro Batman logo.
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