Alyas Batman en Robin

A very cheap, boring "version" of the dynamic duo. Anybody at DC Comics should file a case against those who are responsible for this crap. This is a complete diss Bob Kane and the million and million of Batman fanatics!

"Alyas Batman en Robin" is an unauthorized, Phillipino, Batman musical with cheesy results and "Batman and Robin"-esque tedium. Well, with that recipe it must be so bad that its good right?

Right. If you're prepared to hit the fast-forward button a lot (you won't miss much) through the inescapable sappiness and get to the hysterically out-of-place musical numbers. If you enjoy a mind-numbing hour-and-a-half of utterly confusing fun, then see this.

My friends and I enjoy watching weird cinema from around the world and this "gem" did not let us down. A stunningly strange hodge-podge of camp, horrible fight scenes, love songs, terrible song and dance numbers during bank robberies and some stuff that makes you rewind because you can't believe what you just saw. The film is awful, but yet entertaining. For true hardcore weirdo cinema fans.

You have to love these cheapo foreign take-offs on popular film franchises and characters. In this one it's the old "Batman and Robin" TV show, made in the Philipines for what looks like a zero budget.

There's a lot of pretty girls around and tons of silliness as the heroes fight crime, most notably the Joker and the Penguin. There's also a lot of music, as in one sequence when the Joker and Penguin go to rob what looks like a bank, and they break out into song!

The music is actually pretty funny as they are remakes of 50s and 60s tunes with "Batman and Robin" lyrics thrown in. For instance, The Beach Boys' "Surfin' Safari" gets changed around with lyrics such as, "Holy smokes, Batman and Robin, Oh my God, Batman and Robin, Praise the Lord, Batman and Robin..." The film concludes with a musical sequence that has to be seen to be disbelieved, as many people in superhero costumes (DC and Marvel comics, including a midget Spider-Man) sing and dance to a remake of "At The Hop." There is no doubt whatsoever that this is a fun film to watch, although not to be taken seriously at all.

Okay, the first half hour of this Filipino Batman and Robin parody is a bit testing. But don't give up - the madcap musical numbers (even coinciding with bank robberies, of all things), manic fights and general craziness pop up in the second half. The songs are crackers and the plot? Basically various folks become Batman characters - The Penguin, etc - to rob banks (of various types), sing a little and play some air guitar. In return, the goofball caped crusader and his boy wonder get down to their crime-fighting duties. The finale is the entire cast and the Marvel Comics back-catalogue singing a rousing tune ("Let's be afraid of God. Let's believe in love!"). Not once does this film take itself seriously - for starters, the batcave carport has Batman TV series posters on the wall and comes well-stocked with bat milk, bat coffee and bat tea. A very silly movie.