YMMV / The Wild World of Batwoman

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • After the opening credits there's a scene where a pair of Batgirls witness a man being mugged and then killed. The scene then cuts to a dance club and the murder is never brought up again.^note To be fair, they're reporting the crime to the police, and are witnesses. Batwoman has made it clear she doesn't want her people unnecessarily endangering themselves.
  • There's also the "synthetic vampires" opening (thrown in to placate the rabid lawyers of DC/National Comics) and the racist seance scene. Along with, y'know, everything else in the movie.
  • Another scene has a random man walk into a dark office, a phone suddenly rings, and he answers it and reports that everything is in order. Who he is, where he is, who he is talking to, and what it has to do with anything is never explained. Apparently, he's the security guard. Unfortunately, he's also stock footage from another movie, as are the muggers, the Mole People, that trenchcoat guy, some of Rat Fink and some establishing shots.
  • There's an infamous scene where Batwoman and Flanagan are having a chat while two girls in the background are inexplicably playing tug-of-war with a horseshoe. Why this is in the movie is anyone's guess, but given the general quality of the film it's entirely possible the actresses just got bored and started playing with the horseshoe, and the director didn't bother to do another take.
  • There's a very odd moment at the very end, where the Batgirls and the villains minus Rat Fink are having a pool party at Batwoman's house. Tiger falls into the pool and one of the Batgirls inexplicably starts freaking out despite it otherwise being a happy scene, making you wonder if he wasn't meant to fall in and her freaking out was real because the actor can't swim or the like.
• Captain Obvious Reveal: Careful listeners will recognize Rat Fink's voice long before he's finally unmasked.
• Designated Hero: Batwoman performs something like two unambiguously heroic deeds in the entire movie. Admittedly, that's not a bad ratio given that she only does five things in the entire movie and two of those are stupid, but two good deeds in more than an hour of film does not a superhero make.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The happy pills sure sound familiar.
  • The whole plot hinges on Rat Fink stealing an atomic hearing aid because he likes to eavesdrop on phone calls. As this review points out, if Rat Fink had lived modern times (where almost everyone has a cellphone) he would be able to do this whether he wanted to or not!
• Les Yay: Batwoman lives in a house with over a dozen attractive scantily clad young female go-go dancers who have vowed to obey her every command. Sure, they're allegedly crime fighters...
• Moral Event Horizon: Rat Fink crosses it when he gleefully explains his plan to use Neon's monster's to impregnate the captured bat girls.
• Padding: All of the dancing scenes. There's also a scene where the Batgirls are on the beach and we keep cutting between a band playing and one of the girls making out with some guy for about 3 minutes straight. Considering the whole movie is only about an hour long, this comes across as especially ridiculous.
• Retroactive Recognition: Batwoman would later be Mad Scientist Sheila Frankenstein in Frankenstein Island, which would itself receive a riffing from RiffTrax.
• The Scrappy: Oh, sweet merciful gods, Heathcliff!
  Mike: Ugh. You know, this is what happens when That Guy That Thinks He's A Hoot gets into a movie.
• Stock Footage Failure: Half of the scenes with Rat Fink are taken from some obscure Mexican wrestling movie, and are integrated so badly it creates Plot Holes at times.For example: there is one scene early on where he appears to be sneaking around outside a building. This building turns out to be his own lair (in this movie, at least), which raises the question of why he would need to be sneaky around his own lair, as well as why he later "calls" Neon over a viewscreen instead of just coming inside if he's right there.
• Squick: It's almost a throwaway line, but think carefully: Rat Fink wants to forcibly mate the captive bat girls with the mole people! He then laughs when thinking about how "interesting" the offspring will be!
• Values Dissonance: The "Chinese" spirit Batwoman comes in contact with, who speaks in Ching Chong language.

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