                              |
Review
Starting off with the self-proclaimed long arm of the law, the episode begins with the dense duo of Plastic
Man and Elongated Man. While pursuing the baby-headed gangster BabyFace, they continuously distract each other with banter as to which one Batman prefers to work with further. The mini-story is mostly humorous, but delves a bit too far into the Bat-worship amongst DC legends.
Batman even has to save them as they get into a Wonka-like predicament involving a taffy puller.
The rest of the episode fortunately puts the Bat-worship to rest, and instead focuses on Batman’s incredibly stubborn personality. Starting off with another appearance by
Aquaman, he calls on the help of the Atom to help cure
Batman from the toxin of the random gigantic villain known as Chemo. Most people have been displeased with the depiction of Aquaman’s personality, and it’s highly understandable as to why. However, if you enjoy the alternate work of Aquaman’s voice actor (John DiMaggio) as Futurama’s loveable robot Bender then you will most likely enjoy this version of Aquaman as well.
Together, Aquaman and the Atom shrink down to go on a bacterial journey within Batman in order to fight off beastly-looking microorganisms. Aren’t these things ever cute? Well, at the very least the adopted steed
“Platelet” of our tiny duo is incredibly cute, yet cheesy, and yet still quite funny. Especially given that it was named by the seemingly ignorant Aquaman.
Meanwhile, Batman continues his attacks on the angry green giant and finds out that the evil mastermind behind Chemo’s rampage is the French cerebellious mass known as the Brain. Batman manages to burst the Brain’s muscle, however, as he is swallowed by Chemo and quite easily punctures the giant from the inside, leaving toxins spilled all over the street. Somehow, there is no worry about this, but given the toxic sewer stream in
“Outsiders,” I suppose this sort of thing is normal.
In the internal struggle, the unfortunate loss of
Platelet leaves the Atom enraged and finally fighting with brawn instead of brain and ultimately defeats the infection. Unfortunately, they are quite surely still stuck within the Dark Knight as the Atom lead them towards the tear ducts. As Aquaman points out, however,
Batman never cries. Never. Unless you don’t have a watch of this humorous and educational jaunt through the anatomy of a hero. Actually, he still won’t – but watch it anyways.
[ Back to Reviews ]