A really fun Sci-fi heavy episode.
In this episode, a group of aliens, who look a lot like human brains, are on a mission to destroy all life on the Earth. Batman and Robin head to Mars, where the aliens currently are, to investigate, but the aliens take over Batman's mind and trap Robin. The mind-controlled Batman sends a distress signal to the other Super Friends, to lead the superheroes into an ambush.
This episode benefits from wonderfully creative villains. While their motives are a mystery to us, the designs (while simple) are a lot of fun and the mind control idea leads to some great suspense. The creepy voices they are given are also simply perfect. They also feel like a real believable threat to our heroes. This episode also benefits from taking place in a wide variety of environments leading to a great variety and some of the wonderful background work that is always so wonderful in Hanna-Barbera cartoons of this time period.
On the downside with Batman being mind controlled for much of this episode, we don't get as much of the great corny fun dialogue between Batman and Robin. Also the way the villains are defeated (not much of a spoiler since when you are watching Super Friends, you know the good guys are going to win) feels too easy and rushed. There is also some unfunny comedy from Gleek the space monkey but this is mercifully short.
All in all despite its faults this is a really fun episode.
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