Are Batman's Animated Films Better Than Live Action?
Now that The Batman has released in theaters at long last, there’s no better time to take a look back at the Caped Crusader’s cinematic history. But while most fans think of the Tim Burton films or the Dark Knight trilogy when they think of Batman’s greatest big-screen adventures, the live-action movies aren’t the only feature films to star Bruce Wayne.
Over the past few decades, Batman has appeared in dozens of animated movies, the vast majority of them being direct-to-video releases. However, there are two notable animated Batman movies that saw a theatrical release — 1993’s Batman: Mask of the Phantasmand 2017’s The Lego Batman Movie. And while they may not get as much attention as their live-action counterparts, these animated features are just as good, and arguably even better.
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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is a spin-off of the classic Batman: The Animated Series, which premiered the previous year. The film is directed by the series’ co-creators, Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski, with a screenplay by Batman: TAS writers Paul Dini, Alan Burnett, Martin Pasko, and Michael Reaves. Longtime Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy reprises his role as Bruce Wayne, as does Mark Hamill as the Joker. The cast is rounded out by Dana Delany as love interest Andrea Beaumont (three years before she joined Superman: The Animated Series as Lois Lane) and Stacy Keach as the Phantasm.
The plot centers around the arrival of a mysterious new vigilante in Gotham City — the Phantasm, a Grim Reaper-esque figure who begins murdering some of Gotham’s most powerful gangsters. But as Bruce attempts to unravel the mystery behind this enigmatic foe, he’s distracted by the return of an old flame: Andrea Beaumont, a
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