Batman: The Animated Series (TV Series) Eternal Youth (1992) User Reviews

Poison Ivy: Eco-Terrorist

[ccthemovieman-1 · 8/10 · 10 December 2007]

Environmental extremist "Poison Ivy" is, once again, trying to kill people who aren't treating nature as she would. She's heading a spa called "Eternal Youth" where she personally invites corporate bigwigs who pollute and then she slowly poisons them.

She invites Bruce Wayne (who is shown earlier to be against anyone who would hurt the rain forests) thinking he's one of the enemy, but Bruce doesn't go. Instead, Maggie and Alfred attend and quickly fall for the good feeling they have with the spa treatment. It's actually working; they feel great, and much younger.

However, things begin to go bad as Alfred and Maggie realize their lives are in danger, as this "eco-terrorist," as Batman labels Poison Ivy, is out of her mind and dangerous.

The ending to this was very wild and fun to watch.

"Cardboard!" Fun but not quite Ivy's finest hour

[Foreverisacastironmess123 · 7/10 · 31 August 2020]

So this episode sees Poison Ivy, the eco terrorist plant lady who regards plants as her children and who will stop at nothing to protect them, returns with a new alias and a twisted scheme to lure the older aged business owners and executives of Gotham that she holds responsible for crimes against nature, into a false luxury health spa where they are given special treatment that slowly petrifies them into creepy humanoid trees! I just love the voice that Diane Pershing gave to Ivy, it brings across just the right note of seductive, sly, and occasionally unbalanced. A lot of the other rogues like Hammil's Joker are very rightfully praised, but Pershing's wonderful interpretation of Ivy should never be underrated or counted out! It's kind of a silly plot when you really think about it but it does fit Ivy's character, it's definitely a crazy enough idea that only she could have possibly thought of it! The petrified elderly are to me the only real thing about this episode that jumps out at you though, it's mostly just not very engaging and kind of lame, there's not a lot of substance to this one at all, and it's over before you know it. Batman looks weird in the daylight, and there's too much focus on Alfred and his irritating kooky-voiced old lady friend, I found the scenes of those two to be just tiresome padding, Alfred feels a bit dumbed down here, and I don't need to know about his personal life thank you! Also Ivy barely does anything, her best scene is when she unveils her crazy garden of tree people to Batman and veeerrrrry dramatically says the word cardboard! And animation-wise I found the most striking moment by far to be when a gigantic tree bursts from the ground in moments after some powerful plant growth hormones are spilled, pretty spectacular stuff! So while it's always good to see a villainess as odd as Ivy in the show, she falls a bit short here, the femme fatale aspect of her personality that Pretty Poison hit on so well is how I think she works the best, that episode had actual suspense. Thankfully she had much better appearances to come. Good but not great! 🌱 x

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[David_del_Real_Reviews_in_IMDb · 7/10 · 12 February 2018]

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We begin with Poison Ivy pursuing a woman whose company damaged an entire ecosystem and attacking her with her toxins, transforming her more or less into a living statue (unlike, for example, Catwoman, who is an anti-villain or even an anti-heroine that has among her virtues a sincere and mostly responsible concern for ecology, Poison Ivy is an ecological terrorist that seems to always overlook that humans are also part of the planet...)

Later at Wayne Manor, we see Bruce very upset as his company almost made a deal that would have destroyed another ecosystem if Alfred and him hadn´t taken action to stop it. Alfred, tells Bruce/BATMAN that nothing will really ever slip by him, while he (Alfred) is in charge of helping him. Then, Alfred and Bruce watch a video that just arrived from an enterprise by the name "Eternal Youth" that is secretly ruled by Poison Ivy...

After watching the full video, Bruce and Maggie will convince Alfred that Maggie and him should give a try to a weekend at the Spa in the cassette...ups...



David del Real. México City. México. 2018. February 12th.

Still holds up

[thomasgouldsbrough · 7/10 · 22 January 2022]

Definitely not the best of the series, but it still has a decent plot. However it's over before it begins and spends far too much time on Alfred's relationship.

Dose of stubborn

[ThunderKing6 · 10/10 · 14 February 2022]

About: People and Batman servant getting brainwashed and or getting put in timeout for harming the environment.

An Okay episode. A good message that is Nothing special. Poison Ivy lacks depth and the story resolves quite quickly.

Horrible show and a lackluster episode.