How To Watch Batman Animated Movies In Order

Over the last 60 years in that location accept been a total of 12 theatrically released movies starring Batman. Of course, with the newest movie in the series just released, it'southward important to catch up with the character's cinematic history and refresh yourself on the Caped Crusader'due south adventures. Only with so many Batmans, Robins, and villains, it can be boundless trying to effigy out out what gild to sentry all these movies in. To help you out, we've put together a few dissimilar lookout orders for y'all to consider.

For our purposes, Justice League (2016) volition be replaced by Zack Snyder'due south Justice League (considering it is significantly better and more interesting) and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm and The Lego Batman Flick volition also exist included, along with all the Batman alive-action films, as they had broad theatrical releases.

All of the most contempo movies, starting with Batman Begins, can be streamed on HBO Max, along with the animated titles (for fans of animated Batman movies, check out this list of our favorites). Notwithstanding, for anything older yous'll take to head to Hulu to stream them, and Batman (1966) can exist rented, but non streamed with whatsoever subscriptions.

Release Society

This is pretty straight forwards. It's the literal order these movies were released in.

Batman (1966)
Batman (1989)
Batman Returns
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Batman Forever
Batman and Robin
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
The Nighttime Knight Rises
Batman five Superman: Dawn of Justice
The Lego Batman Movie
Zack Snyder'due south The Justice League
The Batman

Batman in the Multiverse of Madness

Batman movies have always had a habit of telling very similar stories with the aforementioned cast of characters. That's the purpose of this sentinel society. It lets you experience all of the different villains and storylines of the last 60 years of Batman movies to meet how characters like the Joker, Catwoman, and Penguin take evolved, as well as the different versions of the Caped Crusader. Weirdly enough, the almost compelling through line in this watch society might really be the Robin storyline in the back half of the listing, culminating in Zack Snyder's Justice League.

Batman Begins — Origin story
Batman 5 Superman: Dawn of Justice (stop immediately after Bruce Wayne's origin story) — Origin Story
Batman (1989) — Origin story/joker introduced
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm — Early on Batman and Joker stuff
The Dark Knight — Joker introduced to early on-to-mid career Batman
The Batman — Early-to-mid career Batman, Catwoman and Penguin
Batman Returns — Mid career Batman, Catwoman and Penguin
The Night Knight Rises — Tardily career Batman, Catwoman, Blight, and Robin introduced
Batman Forever — Mid career Batman, Robin introduced
Batman (1966) — Lots of villains, lots of Robin, almost everything established
Batman and Robin — Mid career Batman, Bane and Robin
The Lego Batman Moving picture — The biggest Bat-family movie
Zack Snyder's Justice League — Late career Batman, Robin is dead, Bruce is haunted

Michael Keaton as Batman in Batman Returns

Batman, but you sentry a slightly ameliorate movie every time

The Batman movies are honestly mostly good. Your level of enjoyment of the series' extremes may vary, like the camp-filled Batman and Robin or the deadly serious Zack Snyder's Justice League, but overall they're pretty good. With that being said, this order lets yous spotter them from worst to best, in our estimation.