The New Batman Adventures (TV Series) Cold Comfort (1997) User Reviews

Ultimate cruelty!

[David_del_Real_Reviews_in_IMDb · 8/10 · 8 November 2017]

Having the most dear of his hopes lost, Mr. Freeze initiates a cruel crusade to destroy everybody's dearest hopes in Gotham, including the one of the most famous philanthropist in the City: Mr. Bruce Wayne. But the cruelty of Mr. Freeze is only starting, in his anger he is planning to destroy that what the Batman has protected during all his life: the City of Gotham!!!

------- Excerpt from the episode:

Mr Freeze speaking:

"""I have not come here to steal bones, Dr. Manson, I've come to steal.. hope" -------

In this episode we find an evolution ((or should we say involution?)) of the personality of Mr. Freeze, losing that little humanity he had got left after receiving a major stroke, becoming someone so sick, that could only feel some relief from his pain by causing it to other beings.

We had a fine episode with some flaws that somehow are repeated along this season, like having a little less skillful Batman but with higher participation of his sidekicks and allies, which is in my opinion, a good compensation. Also as usual in many fictional stories we must use our "suspension of disbelief" to enjoy a story where a man can survive only with his upper upper part left, but let's just remember that we started with a story of a person that can in theory only survive in temperatures below zero degrees Celsius (Mr. Freeze) fighting with another one that in theory possesses more or less all the combined abilities of all Gold Medal Winners with the intellect of a Sherlock Holmes (Batman).

Finally...as in most (or all) of the Mr. Freeze's tales we have a sad story, luckily, if we think it with care, it didn't finish all so sad for everyone involved.

Thanks for reading

IMDb Review by David del Real. Ciudad de México. Mexico. November 8th, 2017.

One more word about the design....

[timurmaksilo · 10/10 · 18 October 2019]

For some reason, batman fans really, really don't care about plot or story. They only care about art style and character designs. And to that...

Brings no comfort

[Mr-Fusion · 5/10 · 20 December 2016]

Mr. Freeze really gets the short end of the stick in 'Cold Comfort'; what used to be the show's best villain is reduced to monster movie shtick. And this after we'd gotten a decent farewell in "SubZero".

But here he is fronted by two henchbabes, very nearly spouting one-liners. It's not a bad episode, per se, but it's as mediocre as they get.

What it really boils down to is that, with all of the new characters brought in for the overhauled fourth season, Freeze deserved to be left alone.

5/10

Look how they massacred my boy!!

[kanoolg · 5/10 · 17 March 2020]

Mr.freeze was one of batman's most sympathetic villains, but now he seem more like 80's movies villains with "I will be back" or "you haven't seen the last of me batman" attitude.

He had a perfect ending god damn it why ruining it!

Poor Mr.Freeze, he has the worst luck ever!

[Foreverisacastironmess123 · 5/10 · 30 April 2014]

You know, I firmly believe that when the creators of Batman the Animated Series were possessed by whatever unholy spirits that compelled them to fix what was never broken and completely alter the animation style of the show for the hideously worse, ripping the soul out of it in the process, no character got more f****d-over than Mr.Freeze. Well for a start this episode should have never happened, as it totally disregards and invalidates the noble end to the character's story arc at the end of the for me, disappointing Sub Zero movie. You remember, the scene that saw Victor shedding tears of happiness at his wife Nora's complete recovery, and his acceptance of the fact that he was no longer the man she loved, and that they could never again have the life they once had together, and so he headed off into the frozen wastes, alone as ever, but warmed by the thought of his beloved living her own life again... And then the show came back for another season, and they decided that they wanted a new Mr.Freeze episode, and it was called "Cold Comfort." And I even strongly disliked this one as a kid, there are certain elements in it that I'll get to that are so ridiculous I couldn't believe what I was seeing, or that the idiots behind it would have allowed things to slide so completely from the bittersweet poetic magic and awe that was "Heart of Ice." And now thanks to this particular fun medium toy, I am finally in a position to enact my written revenge, and.."Revenge is a dish, best served cold!" You'd think if they were going to bring back a character that once had one of the greatest villainous motivations of all time, then they could have done a little better than: He is now a colossal dick! Look at what they did to Freeze here, they completely stripped him of his pride and meaning and reduced him to the level of a common bully who kicks over million dollar sandcastles to make little old people cry out of petty spite. So why should I be at all compelled to care or be sympathetic to his plight now? I don't! I feel no sympathy for this poorly designed, snarling caricature of what's supposed to be a great anti-villain who destroys people's 'hope' just so they can feel the same pain he feels. And what the hell was that with him having a little troop of fur-clad mini-skirted bimbos working for him? Freeze works alone, Freeze *is* all the loneliness and bitter anger and fear of being left alone in the cold incarnate... That was like something out of that horrendous mess of a movie. It's pathetic. And oh god, the spider-head.. In my opinion it's simply laughable and doesn't even come close to working for a second. It's like I'm watching Futurama! And that's the whole point of the story, Freeze lost his body and now faces the nightmarish existence of being a horrific freakshow of a living head, and that's supposed to give him a free ticket to divulge in arbitrary dickory! I mean yes, Freeze was always unfeeling, cold and vindictive, but he was never this crazy! None of it adds up, how is he all that worse-off than he was before? In my eyes, this episode didn't get a single thing right, and while I perhaps should be grateful that it at least kept the character going after his story arc was essentially resolved, his new story felt lazy, desperate and empty from start to finish. And when all's said and done, it only really serves as a reminder that Freeze, as awesome and complex a villain as he could be, regretfully kind of needed Nora to motivate him as a foe for Batman, or his story would probably be a mere waste of time. Easily one of the most horribly misguided animated Batman episodes ever, and extremely stupid. God damn you Cold Comfort. You get the cold shoulder and everything else!

Cold Cruelty to Summer and Freeze

[osbornj-00213 · 1/10 · 29 June 2020]

At the touching end of Sub-Zero one saw Summer Gleeson, effectively as always reporting on how Freeze's work had cured his Nora, he in tears, walking into the Arctic snows, his mission accomplished. HERE the viewers gets two HORRIFYING shocks about them,

First, SUMMER IS GONE!

. She has been ruinously replaced by some media MEDIOCRITY called Jack (prounounced JERK) Ryder. He is shockingly stiff, wooden, the actor making NO effort compared to the voicing verve Mari Devon brought to her role. Even the CROOKS pay him no attention, brushing him out of the episode--imagine what SUMMER would have brought to the scene! She could have even been kidnapped, hung up with those lab LOSERS.

It terribly tuned out Ryder was there to later (as in next-to-LAST episode) to become a comics CATASTROPHE from the 1960's The Creeper. He sank in six issues then, considered, REJECTED, for the first, classic show. He was dumped here by DC to help with a comics relaunch that debuted SAME month as show (September, 1997). By the time the episode ran (November, 1998) the new Creeper comics HAD FAILED. Summer had been sacrificed FOR NOTHNG.

Then Freeze turned into frozen FREAK!

Batman's most tragic adversary, not really evil, feelings frozen out out of him, finding them back now terribly rather than terrifyingly turned into BATastrophic version a grade Z sub-zero BUDGET horrible horror of a filmatic fiasco They Saved Hitler's Brain, Freeze a frozen fuhrer head jarringly in jar, in a word, DISGUSTING. Sad to see Michael Ansara's brilliance, second only to Mark Hamill among to Batman's main enemies, so wretchedly wasted.

One of this second, second-RATE, Batman series' WORST episodes.