Sadly Over-hyped

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

If possible, I would give this movie a .5 rating, but only because the actors showed up and said their lines. This movie is so wretchedly-bad, even MST3K's usually-entertaining riffing cannot redeem it in any way... an astounding achievement. There's no point in describing a plot line, here. Boring cannot begin to describe how uninvolving and dumb this cinematic horror truly is. I found myself even snoozing through the MST3K version. Even making fun of it was dull!! It makes the Batman TV series of the same era (an obvious non-coincidence) seem like Emmy-Award-winning landmark television. Maybe the cast of "The Wild World of Batwoman" were all high on something while putting this celluloid fecal matter together. I guess you could call it a soporific masterpiece, as or more effective as any known sleep aid, including Ambien, Trazodone, Sominex, Nytol, Sleep-Eze, Melatonin, Tryptophan, 10 shots of whiskey before bed, a blow to the head with a blunt instrument, etc., etc.

What was this about again? I just saw it and I already forgot, that's how boring it was. There is Batwoman, named so for no apparent reason, there are a bunch of pretty much useless sidekick batgirls, there is a villain in a black mask, a mad scientist, and a couple of henchmen and there is, ostensibly, a plot about a nuclear powered hearing aid. You might think then that this would be some kind of action movie, all be it a silly one. You would be wrong, most of the time the characters just stand around and talk (even the climax consist mostly of Batwoman and the villain talking) about unimportant things, every once in a while this talking is interrupted by lengthy scenes of a bunch of girls dancing (perhaps some sort of fan service). Somewhere towards the end, it seems they remembered there was supposed to be a plot, so they threw in an "action" scene which basically consists of a bunch of people running around in circles. That's it, except for the dancing and this "climactic battle scene" nothing happens in the entire movie.

Wild World of Batwoman, The (1966) * 1/2 (out of 4) Infamous film from director Warren had the man sued by Marvel and this film, at one time, re-released as SHE WAS A HIPPIE VAMPIRE but it's the title here and the clear rip-off of Batman that has made this thing live for so long. The story is all over the place but we've basically got Batwoman (Katherine Victor) going after the evil Rat Fink (Richard Banks) who also had a nutty scientist (George Mitchell) working for him. I was somewhat shocked to see that this movie was ranked in the Bottom 100 at IMDb for several reasons. One is that this is the only Warren movie there. The second reason is that there are so many more movies out there worse than this one. I'm really not sure why this film has gotten so much special attention but I'm going to guess it's because Batman fans are checking this thing out and seeing a pure "Z" grade picture. I can understand someone familiar with "A" pictures to hate this. It does contain horrible acting, horrible direction, horrible outfits, a horrible plot and any other job title could have horrible before it. However, as someone who has seen many Warren film, this one contains something the others don't and that's an attempt at telling a story. Yes, the story is all over the place, makes no sense and at times will have you lost but at least it tries, which is a lot more than you can say for the director's other films. This one here also has more than just one long dialogue sequence after another. We've actually got quite a bit of action ranging from fights to some silly guns being waived around. Again, this isn't too common for a Warren picture. One of the silliest things here is the scientist who has created a "happy" pill that his girls to girls so that they will dance and do a few other things. These dances are so crazy that you can't help but laugh and the music they're dancing to certainly wasn't rock 'n roll from 1966 but seems to be about fifteen years late from its target audience. What's even sillier is the scientist who has an assistant who is mildly retarded due to an experiment that went wrong. The politically incorrect role was silly but at the same time it had me laughing. Again, all of these things make for an awful movie but at the same time they keep the film moving and make it rather fun to watch. If you're a fan of bad cinema then this here is certainly one of the all-time great bad movies. Warren would take a fourteen year break from filmmaking before jumping back onto the scene with the downright horrid FRANKENSTEIN ISLAND. It's really too bad he didn't go out with this sucker as it pretty much contains everything bad you'd expect from a movie like this. Just don't take it too serious, sit back and laugh.

...was how Crow described "The Wild World of Batwoman" when he, Mike and Servo were forced to watch it. The lame excuse for a plot involves a woman and her bikini-clad minions fighting a bevy of bad guys. HOW MANY MOVIES HAVE USED THAT PLOT?!!!!!!!!!! That it made such great "Mystery Science Theater 3000" fodder is the movie's ONLY redeeming aspect; otherwise, it's beyond worthless. But, what can you say about a movie that Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank force Mike, Servo and Crow to watch? Anyway, avoid this junk in it's own form. If you want to enjoy it, watch the "MST3K" version. They've got plenty of great comments, as they always do.