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Pooh's Adventures of Batman- The Animated Series

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Pooh's Adventures of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is the first Winnie the Pooh/Batman movie created by Daniel Esposito. It premiered on YouTube in June 2009. It was re-released online on Google Drive on December 11, 2014 for its 5th anniversary. A new remastered remake version (now as a midquel to Pooh's Adventures of Batman: The Animated Series) will appear on Odysee in the near future.

Plot[]

During a conference of crime bosses held in a Gotham City skyscraper, gangster Chuckie Sol is killed by a mysterious cloaked figure shortly after Batman bursts in on the meeting. Batman is blamed for the death. Councilman Arthur Reeves tells the media that Batman is an irresponsible menace, then attends a party at the mansion of billionaire Bruce Wayne, Batman's alter ego. Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Rabbit, and Eeyore arrived at the mansion and met Bruce Wayne. Reeves jokingly taunts Bruce for his bad luck with women and for having allowed an old girlfriend, Andrea Beaumont, to get away.

In a flashback to Bruce's college days, we see him meet Andrea in a cemetery while visiting his parents' grave. Bruce has vowed to avenge his parents' murder by dedicating his life to fighting crime. He dons a mask and black ninja-styled outfit and foils an armored car robbery, but is discouraged that the criminals do not fear him. Around the same time, he begins a romance with Andrea. Eventually, Bruce decides to quit his plan on becoming a crime-fighter and proposes marriage to Andrea. However, Andrea mysteriously leaves Gotham with her father, ending her engagement to Bruce in a Dear John letter. Believing that he has lost his only chance of having a normal life, Bruce finally dons the mask of Batman.

Bruce discovers a locket that Andrea left for him in the Batcave. In the present, Pooh and the others frightenly discovers the killer and it finds and kills another gangster, Buzz Bronski. Batman discovers evidence with the help of Pooh and the others linking Andrea's father with a number of organized crime figures. The killer later targets Salvatore Valestra, the mob boss for whom both Sol and Bronski once worked as enforcers, but is beaten to the punch by the Joker, whom Valestra had foolishly consulted for help; Batman is blamed again and has a close call with the police after a brief confrontation with the killer. Rescuing Batman in her car, Andrea explains that she and her father had been hiding in Europe, from the Valestra mob, to whom he owed a lot of money. Carl Beaumont eventually repaid them, but that did not satisfy them. Batman believes that Andrea's father may be the killer, until he learns from Reeves (who now knows Batman is innocent) that Beaumont was murdered some time before.

In a tussle with the Joker, the killer is revealed to be Andrea herself, intent on avenging her father's death by killing the mobsters to whom he owed money and whom ordered Beaumont murdered. The Joker is also revealed to be the last surviving member of the Valestra mob: an unnamed hitman who personally murdered Beaumont for Valestra. During the course of their struggle, Batman and the others arrives. Bruce begs Andrea to give up her desire for revenge but she refuses stating that they ruined her chances with Bruce and that he himself is constantly fighting for revenge. Andrea vanishes and Batman and Pooh and the others battles with the Joker in a miniaturized replica of Gotham City. After a protracted battle, both the Joker and Andrea vanish in the confusion of fire and smoke, with Batman and Pooh and the others barely escaping into a waterway before a series of rigged explosions.

Back in the Batcave, a heartbroken Bruce and a melancholy to Pooh and his friends receives consolation from Alfred stating that no one could have helped Andrea. Bruce finds the locket with Bruce and Andrea in it in the cave. Meanwhile, Andrea stands on the deck of an ocean liner, alone. The final scene shows Batman now permanently alone standing on top of a building, still in grief. The Bat-Signal emerges in the distance and Batman flies into action to continue his crusade against crime

Trivia[]

  • The adventure continues in Pooh's Adventures of Batman and Mr. Freeze: SubZero.
  • The clip where Pooh and his friends met Bruce Wayne was later seen in the flashback sequence in Pooh's Adventures of Jetsons: The Movie.
  • The original version was an NTSC film with NTSC bits from The Tigger Movie, Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year, and Pooh's Heffalump Movie and PAL bits from The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search For Christopher Robin, Piglet's Big Movie, and Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie. However, the upcoming remastered remake version will also be an NTSC film with NTSC bits from the Winnie the Pooh films.

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