Review of Starring Adam West (2013) by Jake C — 12 Nov 2015

Documentaries often depict heady topics dealing with issues like social justice, political corruption, and economic exploitation. For those exact reasons I wanted to write about Starring Adam West (2013). I think documentaries highlighting important issues are valuable to our culture but that does not mean the genre cannot have a wide variety of subjects including light hearted and comedic fare.

Starring Adam West (2013) follows the career of the most well known actor to play Batman on the small screen Adam West. Despite the subject's ups & downs in Hollywood the film's subject is enjoying a career renaissance during his golden years. Thanks to the many types of Batman now available to audiences the once reviled Batman TV show produced during the sixties is also enjoying a revival in popularity among old and new fans alike.

I must confess that I was among the many people who derided the campy sixties Batman. In my defense during my childhood in the late eighties and early nineties we were not blessed with so many iterations of Batman in popular media as we are today. During my youth I would be damned if I would embrace the silly campy Batman when I was so starved for a serious interpretation of the Dark Knight. In today's world with so many flavors of Batman available it's much easier to embrace Mr. West's campy interpretation of the Caped Crusader.

Starring Adam West (2013) won't change the your life or impact your world view but it isn't an over glorified Adam West commercial like the VH1 documentary series Behind The Music tends to be. Family Guy and Batman fans alike will enjoy this romp through Adam West's career. If you're a fan of documentaries like I am its still alright to enjoy a guilty pleasure every now and then. Even the world's greatest detective agrees, "Well, that's okay, chum. We all have the right to be selfish sometimes.".