Batman: The Animated Series (TV Series) Moon of the Wolf (1992) User Reviews

The Adventures Of Milo & Anthony

[ccthemovieman-1 · 8/10 · 14 May 2008]

Milo, the inventor with the bad bowl-shaped haircut is back, using a serum to make a Gotham bigwig bodybuilder a wolfman of sorts. The latter, "Anthony Romulus," is one of those guys who will take the drugs if it turns him back into the great athlete he used to be (sound familiar?). The plan for Milo is to give this Barry Bonds-wannabe enough serum to completely turn him into a werewolf, and thus be strong enough to kill the Caped Crusader.

Romulus (voiced by Harry Hamlin) is the "victim" who takes the serum and isn't happy about the side effects. Oh, he liked it at first when it helped make his a track hero but he's not really excited about the side effects! Now he wants to antidote.

At first, the top half of Romulus turned into a wolf but a second drink later on makes him all werewolf. Treat Williams voices Milo, another of the villains who returns every now and then for another episode. Have noticed how many villains keep coming back in this series? That's fine with me, as we get to know all their eccentricities.

Once again, the artists here feature some nice colors and the writers inject just a little bit of humor to take the edge off the story.

"Your move, hairy!"

[Foreverisacastironmess123 · 7/10 · 29 October 2014]

This episode is just weird! It's certainly not as awesome as I remembered it being when I was a kid, but it's still a fun and entertaining enough romp from the second season. The plot is one that feels very much on the slim side, and I thought it was kind of weak how the Anthony Romulus character(terrifically voiced by Harry Hamlin) didn't quite have any of the usual tragic or sympathetic qualities that often made the villains interesting or made me want to care about this one and his quest to find a cure for his lycanthropy. He wasn't even a real villain anyway, just a former athlete who got tricked into doing the bidding of a greedy scientist who alone held the cure and who had manipulated him into taking the wolf oestrogen steroids(!) in the first place so he could cheat at sports or something, and I don't know, he just turned into a snarling enraged werewolf who had no real motivation except to eventually turn against the nasty scientist who looked just like Moe from The Three Stooges! And then of course it was up to Batman to put the bad doggy down for good. Batman strangely seems a little dumbed-down and clueless in this one.. Firstly, he thinks the werewolf is someone in a mask when he himself has had several encounters with people that have transformed into vicious beasts. He also walks right into a very obvious trap and comes out with some pretty colourful wolf-related quips as he grapples with his beastly adversary throughout the story! It was quite funny. Story-wise it's noticeably standard stuff, but I can always dig Batman battling strange and exotic one-shot enemies and this episode definitely takes a walk on the wild side! The whole thing feels suspiciously like one big contrivance to manoeuvre Batman into a situation in which he can have an (almost) epic face-off against a deadly hulking werewolf - which to its credit is a pretty great macabre and Gothic concept, and thankfully the climactic showdown scene where Batman goes toe-to-toe with the beast in an amphitheatre with a thunderstorm going on doesn't disappoint, and while the rest of it is a tad slow and frankly sloppy, for me that sequence is enough to make the episode good and worthwhile. And then it's wrapped-up by one of the many poignant and somehow satisfying little epilogues that reveals that Romulus who had disappeared without Batman ever discovering who he really was, is now condemned to remain a werewolf for all his days... It's weak but dumb as it is, I still wouldn't count it among the series' worst, and it is at least entertaining. I love the electric guitar music that I thought brings out a lot of the tongue-in-cheek fun of it, and there were little moments where it did kind of feel like a homage to old classic monster movies - specifically "The Wolfman", which Romulus looks very much like for a moment as he transforms for the second time. I really liked Detective Bullock here, he was always such a solid great supporting character, and he's handy in this one as he essentially solves the case for Batman and even shows up with backup at the big fight at the end, only instead of giving the order to shoot the werewolf then and there, he seems to be enjoying the spectacle of Batman and the monster duking it out, so he just stands there and lets the Caped Crusader handle it himself! So in closing not great, but still fun to sit through. Now what I'd really love to see would be a scenario where Batman's up against Dracula, or better yet a zombie horde! Ooh, or the Gillman! Hey ~whoa~ wait..how about Hellraiser!? That'd be the best!!! Bit of an oddball episode but definitely fun, which is all that really matters.

If it's a fight your looking for try starting one with me

[therealhumanghost · 3/10 · 30 December 2018]

It's ok has its moments but the story is fine but I didn't like the Villain and it did get a bit silly some times it's ether a hit or miss personally I wasn't a fan of the story so it was not for me

Ehh....it's OK

[Harand4life · 13 October 2008]

Bruce Wayne runs into his friend Tony Romulus, and get's invited to dinner. Bruce agrees, but that night has to stop a rampaging werewolf who gets away. Through a little detective work, Batman discovers that the trail leads back to Tny. We see that Pofessor Milo has developed a cure for Tony's lycanthropy, but won't give it to him just yet. Batman confronts Tony at his house and we see Tony secretly lock the windows to his study. Batman starts to sweat and eventually realizes that knockout gas has been pouring into the room without his knowledge. He tries to first put on a gas mask and when that fails, he stumbles into Romulus but slips into unconsciousness as he slumps to the ground. As Professor Milo stands over his unconscious body, Tony removes Batman's utility belt with a smile. As Batman awakes, he is chained to the ground in a massive courtyard and we see that Milo has set Werewolf Tony upon him. With some clever maneuvering, Batman beats Tony as the werewolf, but it apparently dies. Milo is taken into police custody and the episode ends with the werewolf forever cursed (the cure was crushed in the fight in the courtyard) I found this to be an alright episode. The animation was fine and the voice work was top notch as always, but I found the storyline to be outlandish for this particular cartoon.