This show is awesome. It is campy, clever and just plain silly. Just like the old Adam West Batman show used to be. This cartoon was such a refreshing change form the over abundance of the dark brooding batman shows lately. They bring in those silly characters you never see in the darker batman. Which is AWESOME! Characters like Aquaman, Plastic man, The Blue Beetle, etc... Even Batmite!. This show needs to come back in a major way! not enough people have given it the chance it deserves. This is silver age Batman. Something some people who like the boring old dark knight series may never get. Batman the campy version is just plain ridiculous fun!!!

"Batman-The Brave And The Bold" is the newest entry in DC's and Warner's collaboration to bring the Caped Crusader to live on the television screen.At first I thought the show was a stupid drawback to the 60s with a pseudo camp commentary in it. I was not convinced by the artwork or the shallow story lines.Then I realized: You are 30 years old and you have known Batman for your whole life. You know what? We are not the target audience for this show.It is a show designed for children and what a better way to introduce the DC Universe to them?The show is light-hearted without being to naive, it is funny without letting the characters look ridiculous and it shows a deep understanding of the DC Universe's more minor characters.If you are a fan of the DC Universe you need to check out this show. You will find delight in the characterization of each character, of the way they act in relation to Batman and how Batman responds to them.The stories are not overly complex, but keep their surprising twists that helps to let you enjoy the whole 25 minutes of an episode.The design is very retro, inspired a lot from the 60s show (outrageous gadgets and pay attention to the "mimic" of Batman's mask) without ripping it off.The best example is Batman's voice: I love Kevin Conroy as Batman, but Diedrich Bader delivers the one-liners in Brave and the Bold with the same ironic honesty and competence that Adam West voiced his Batman with, again without ripping him off.But the character design is beautiful throughout. I like that the Joker actually looks exactly like his first incarnation by Bob Kane or that Khamandi (who? yeah right) has actually that Jack Kirby style look to him.This show may be simple, but it is the heart, love and understanding of it's sources that makes it so damn likable. This is what a re-imagining should be: Staying true to the sources, without being a slave to it, bringing in a fresh style and new ideas and knowing exactly what it is.And I like the idea that today's kids go on Youtube 2.0 or whatever in 20 years and discover this show again, just like my generation did with the old Adam West show. And I hope that they will get the same fond memories of it.To all the established fans and to future generations of Bat-followers:Highly Recommended!

Well, the "dark" fanboys who are dissing this show seem to be unaware of the fact that at least three characters have been killed on the show already. Batman's parents (in the freaking Christmas episode!) and a hero who shall remain nameless.Look, chumleys, it is entirely possible to be both lighthearted and hard-core at the same time, if you know how to play it. Eisner's Spirit had both humor and grittiness, light-hearted banter one minute and then the comic relief kid arranges for one of the female villains to be machine-gunned to death by the police after she learns the Spirit's secret ID (in the classic "Death of Autumn Mews" story arc, which that jackanape Miller should have used for the movie)! As for this show, I love that it revives the Sprang Batman without the excesses of stupidity that Joel Schumacher put into his movies.

I've been a fan of the Batman for 25 years, and got to experience first-hand the evolution of the character from campy cultural powderpuff to Dark Knight. As great as the change has been, sometimes it's necessary to stop trying to out-Frank-Miller the character. (Just look at what they did to the Spirit. Awful.)The new "B:B&B" is a clever, fun, and completely refreshing take on Dark Knight and the DC Universe, using Silver Age-style artwork and contemporary snappy patter. Special kudos go to whomever is in charge of the music: rousing, brassy big band numbers that add to the show's flair. The new takes on classic characters like Green Arrow and Aquaman (the best take on Aquaman in television history!) is a double scoop of goodness. Batman is, first and foremost, a comic character, and comics are, first and foremost, supposed to be fun. This series is *FUN*, a real blast to watch. If you can't handle the change, there's a half-dozen other anti-hero animated Batmans to sate your appetite. But you'll be missing out on a whole other dimension of the character. Highly, highly recommended!