The Penguin's submarine's interiors are the "Seaview" sets from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964) redressed.

Adam West agreed to do the film partly on the one condition that he would have more screen time as Bruce Wayne in it.

Cesar Romero (the Joker) absolutely refused to shave off his mustache during filming and it was covered with makeup instead. Romero did the same thing in every episode of the TV series that he appeared in as the Joker. Needless to say, his constant decision to do this every time fooled no one.

(at about 15:00 into the film) The Penguin's line in the film, "We shall hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately", was a humorous phrase spoken by Benjamin Franklin when he was in danger of being accused of high treason by his fellow delegates.

Shooting of the film began before Lee Meriwether was cast for it. As a result, the Catwoman does not appear with the other three villains in the first scene that takes place aboard the Penguin's submarine in it.

Continuity

When handing Batman the Shark Repellent Bat Spray, Robin is hanging upside down directly above Batman, but when Batman uses the spray on the shark, Robin has disappeared.

(at about 9:00 into the film) When Robin is handing Batman the Shark Repellent Bat Spray, the distance between the two of them changes between scenes.

(at about 1:30:00 into the film) When Batman forces the submarine to surface (right before the Bat-fight), it is (naturally) wet. However, when the Batboat pulls along side of it moments later, everything is dry.

The dehydrated members of the Security Council were of different levels of sand when they were dehydrated; however, when Batman and Robin re-hydrate them, all of the sand is of equal volume. It changes back to unequal when they are in their chairs at the United World Building.

(at about 1:10:00 into the film) While traveling with the Penguin in the Batmobile, the close-up scenes show that the Penguin is clearly seated behind Robin. On the long scene when the car "stalls", the Penguin is sitting in between Batman and Robin, as there is no back seat in the Batmobile.



Factual errors

(at about 29:00 into the film) Early in the film, Batman establishes that the United States Navy sold a surplus pre-atomic submarine to the Penguin. Later, we see this submarine firing a Polaris missile. Pre-atomic (e.g., diesel) submarines were not equipped to fire Polaris missiles.

In the opening scenes of the film, the running lights on the Batcopter are reversed. Green should be on the right / starboard side and red should be on the left / port side.



Incorrectly regarded as goofs

(at about 1:00:00 into the film) When Batman and Robin are climbing up the wall, you can see the strings used to hold their capes up, as the scene is clearly a rotated scene of the duo walking horizontally. Although this has been widely regarded as a mistake, the film's special edition DVD commentary with Adam West and Burt Ward explains that it was done purposely to have some fun for the adult audience.



Revealing mistakes

(at about 5:00 into the film) While Batman and Robin are flying in the Batcopter, they fly over women in bikinis on the top of a skyscraper. They start jumping up and down and one of the women in bikinis has her breast exposed. This part is obviously censored.

During the submarine fight at the end of the film, the Catwoman pushes Batman into the water. When Batman hits the water, there is another Batman already in the water.

When taking the Penguin to the Batcave, there is a point of view scene from the hood of the Batmobile as they drive into the actual Batcave entrance at Bronson Canyon. In reality, that is an entrance to a tunnel, meaning there is an exit. The exit of the tunnel was blocked off, but if one looks there are several places where daylight is shining through.

(at about 1:30:00 into the film) During the final fight scene on the deck of the submarine, wrinkles are visible on the sky backdrop.

(at about 1:15:00 into the film) As Batman and Robin are running across the street, a passenger in a Corvette convertible can be clearly seen looking, smiling and waving directly at the camera crew.



Miscellaneous

(at about 9:00 into the film) When Batman has the shark on his leg for as long as he does, there should be holes torn in his tights. There are none.

Although Batman was correct that somewhere during the many-mile-ride that the Penguin would use his knockout gas on himself and Robin and then steal the Batmobile. he had no idea of the exact location to hide the Batcycle, which just happened to be hidden at the exact same location.

There are wrinkles in the sky backdrop during the fight on the submarine in the film and there are also waves splashing up against it.

When the obviously fake shark is hanging on Batman's leg for so long, not only would his tights be torn, as has already been submitted here, but he would be bleeding with severe damage to his legs. Also, it appeared that part of the Bat-Ladder was in the shark's mouth, so that would have been chewed clean through.



Audio/visual unsynchronized

(at about 57:00 into the film) When the Penguin, the Riddler and the Catwoman dehydrate some of their pirate flunkies, the Riddler can sometimes be heard laughing even though his mouth is not moving.



Crew or equipment visible

(at about 1:2:00:00 into the film) When Batman is running with the bomb, right after he meets the two nuns for the first time, the camera crew are clearly reflected in a window.

(at about 4:00 into the film) When the Batcopter is first seen being pulled from the hangar, the whole camera crew and their equipment is reflected in its windshield glass.

(at about 20:00 into the film) When Batman and Robin take off in the Batboat for the first time, the spinning rotors from the camera crew's helicopter become visible and stay there for a while until the helicopter catches up with them, then the camera pans back down.

(at about 22:00 into the film) Wrinkles on the sky backdrop are visible when Batman and Robin arrive at the buoy.



Plot holes

(at about 31:00 into the film) Batman and Robin solve a pair of the Riddler's riddles that indicate that the Catwoman is part of the conspiracy, and the Caped Crusaders, Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara seem shocked. Yet earlier in the film, they had already discussed the possibility that four villains, including the Catwoman, had joined forces.

In their search for fingerprints on the projector buoy, Batman and Robin must have forgotten that all four of the villains wear gloves.

(at about 27:00 into the film) When Batman and Robin are trapped on the buoy with a strong magnet pinning their utility belts to it, after the third torpedo explodes (when it hits a porpoise that intercepted it) Batman and Robin are next seen back in the Batboat and escaping, but how did they free themselves from the buoy? There is no indication that the magnet had been shut down (i.e., the buoy was never hit, nor did we see the Penguin turn it off or Batman use some Bat-device to shut it off).

Why are the Dynamic Duo even bothering trying to find fingerprints on the buoy? They know who they are dealing with.

(at about 1:21:00 into the film) When the Catwoman threatens to have Miss Kitka killed, she says something along the lines of: "Don't come near us or your sweet Miss Kitka dies." She says this to Batman, though. From the Catwoman's perspective, Batman never personally knew Miss Kitka, Bruce Wayne did. Kitka did not identify herself by the name "Kitka" (she said her full name) earlier in the film when she was taking pictures of Batman and Robin.



Character error

(at about 9:00 into the film) At the press conference following Batman's fight with the shark, Batman replies to a reporter's question about the yacht by saying, "Nonsense - how can a yacht simply disappear?" Discussing the yacht in the next scene at the Batcave, he says to Robin, "As you yourself stated, a yacht simply can't disappear." Batman credits Robin with saying something at the conference that he actually said.

(at about 28:00 into the film) When Robin contacts the Department of Defense, he say into the phone, "Please give me the Pentagon in Washington D.C." The Pentagon is located in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.

(at about 1:24:00 into the film) When the Riddler is hitting all the switches to launch the Polaris missile from the submarine, he misses one of them.