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Review If a Plastic Man sneezes in the
woods, and there are a dozen violent, furry creatures
sleeping; does it make a sound? Well, yes, of course.
So, the second episode of season two starts off with a
strange start in the woods where a bunch of timid, tired
sasquatch-like creatures have abducted a whole camp full
of scouts, and Batman & Plastic Man are there to save
them. Quietly. The teaser is a little strange as it
doesn’t really offer any good or bad parts, and the
entire span of it is pretty much a set up for a single
joke at the end. This is a very “love it or hate it”
teaser.
Oddly, the rest of the episode is also
dedicated to Plastic Man and his quirky life; his wife;
his baby “Baby,” and his rotund friend from “Death Race
to Oblivion,” Woozy Winks. This is a surprising episode
to get considering that Plastic Man has disappeared for
most of season one, and now he’s prominently returned in
the first two episodes of this season. So, was the
episode any good? Well, it’s certainly better than the
teaser. The episode not only explores Plastic Man’s
personal life, but also expands on Plastic Man’s
previous life as one of the henchmen for KiteMan. This
was actually brought up during his first appearance in
“Terror on Dinosaur Island,” so it’s nice to not only
see a hold on continuity, but also using it to bring in
an otherwise extremely uninteresting villain.
The
episode unfortunately suffers from far too much emphasis
on the Kiteman plot point, and anything else in the
episode comes across as pure filler to reach the fight
scenes, but the worst example of them ignoring plot
points is that during the final fight, Batman is hit
with Kiteman’s beam that give him the flexing ability
similar to Plastic-Man’s. This is weird, of course, but
this ability is not taken away from him by the end of
the episode, and simply ignored. I’m sure we’re supposed
to believe that it was reversed post-episode, but I
would prefer to actually see it happen. Overall, it’s a
decent episode if you like Plastic-Man. If not, then
this episode is probably best to skip.
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