This movie gets seriously much better when you realize that Schumacher and company were essentially making their own spin on the original Batman TV show with Adam West. It's a direct play on the campiness and jocularity that the show was shot through with. A large amount of the jokes and gags you could totally imagine Adam West pulling off in his time. Keeping that fully in mind is essential when viewing, it accomplishes its purpose rather well. It's not without some major flaws, Clooney could've given a bit more effort overall.
I've never been able to get past the first hour of 1997's Batman & Robin, until forcing myself to this week. It's just that everything looks like a plastic playset and I can't even begin to care about a story that looks and feels like about a dozen sketches spoofing comics. Or what the author - in this case, Joel Schumacher - THINKS comics are like, just color and dumb plots and bombastic language. But this hasn't anything to do with comics of any era, much less the late 90s, which extends to off-model villains like Mr. Freeze (whose loony-tunes persona clashes with his tragic backstory) and Bane (the mastermind who broke the Batman reduced to a grunting Frankenstein's Monster). I tried very hard to see it through a positive lens. Like, why are Batman '66 and Lego Batman acceptable, but this isn't? Well, for one thing, those films are FUNNY. This one comes off as if it's mocking its subject matter and so the joke falls flat. The disengaging sense of unreality extends to a wilful lack of understanding of how the real world works, whether we're talking about computers, diamonds, astronomy, physics, you name it. At odds with the pantomime is the subplot about Alfred's illness and it's just about the only good thing about the movie. Michael Gough has too much gravitas for this thing. Batman's impassioned plea for his life was the only true emotional moment, and Batgirl as Alfred's niece also strikes me as a better hero than the two leads (or less of a ham). Whatever weaknesses I found in Batman Forever, that's what Schumacher decided to double down on in B&R, and audiences quite correctly allowed it to kill the franchise.
There a lot of stupid things in this movie, things that not make sense and are pointless, but at the same time are hilarious, Batman & Robin is a fantastic comedy movie.
Clooney is horrible playing batman, enough said.
Chris and batgirl are ridiculous, there suits are ridiculous the movie is ridiculous.
The movie is not about freeze and ivy killing batman, is about the diretor Joel Schumacher killing batman, he kills batman with this movie, and thanks god that Nolan reboot it.
If you are a Batman fan, please do NOT see this movie.
1.5/5
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DisneyStitch
This movie gets seriously much better when you realize that Schumacher and company were essentially making their own spin on the original Batman TV show with Adam West. It's a direct play on the campiness and jocularity that the show was shot through with. A large amount of the jokes and gags you could totally imagine Adam West pulling off in his time. Keeping that fully in mind is essential when viewing, it accomplishes its purpose rather well. It's not without some major flaws, Clooney could've given a bit more effort overall.Pedr20
This is the campiest a hero movie has ever beenSiskoid
I've never been able to get past the first hour of 1997's Batman & Robin, until forcing myself to this week. It's just that everything looks like a plastic playset and I can't even begin to care about a story that looks and feels like about a dozen sketches spoofing comics. Or what the author - in this case, Joel Schumacher - THINKS comics are like, just color and dumb plots and bombastic language. But this hasn't anything to do with comics of any era, much less the late 90s, which extends to off-model villains like Mr. Freeze (whose loony-tunes persona clashes with his tragic backstory) and Bane (the mastermind who broke the Batman reduced to a grunting Frankenstein's Monster). I tried very hard to see it through a positive lens. Like, why are Batman '66 and Lego Batman acceptable, but this isn't? Well, for one thing, those films are FUNNY. This one comes off as if it's mocking its subject matter and so the joke falls flat. The disengaging sense of unreality extends to a wilful lack of understanding of how the real world works, whether we're talking about computers, diamonds, astronomy, physics, you name it. At odds with the pantomime is the subplot about Alfred's illness and it's just about the only good thing about the movie. Michael Gough has too much gravitas for this thing. Batman's impassioned plea for his life was the only true emotional moment, and Batgirl as Alfred's niece also strikes me as a better hero than the two leads (or less of a ham). Whatever weaknesses I found in Batman Forever, that's what Schumacher decided to double down on in B&R, and audiences quite correctly allowed it to kill the franchise.Realenur
Just as awful as Forever and Burton's, no more no less.buteberry
worst strong-crew movie I've seen. Couldn't have been worse.chryzsh
Chill out folks. It's a cool moviedemagogo
(removed by mod: please post in English)Joker of Gotham
There a lot of stupid things in this movie, things that not make sense and are pointless, but at the same time are hilarious, Batman & Robin is a fantastic comedy movie.Clooney is horrible playing batman, enough said.
Chris and batgirl are ridiculous, there suits are ridiculous the movie is ridiculous.
The movie is not about freeze and ivy killing batman, is about the diretor Joel Schumacher killing batman, he kills batman with this movie, and thanks god that Nolan reboot it.
If you are a Batman fan, please do NOT see this movie.
1.5/5
Batnobbit
This movie kicks iceMarazmatique
Why so much serious hate? It's hilarious as far as I'm concerned.slytherinqueen
No matter what people say, this movie is pretty cool.set123
Brilliant camp classic on par with Flash Gordon.Captain Qynce
Whenever I get the least bit sad, I just remember George Clooney once played Batman and everything's OK again.badblokebob
Watching this recently for only the second time ever, I was surprised to discover it's not completely without merit.Sure, the vast majority of it is horrendously appalling, but the Alfred subplot is really well done. That's all, but it's something, eh?
Jaqo
I.... I.... No, there are NO words for how awful this is.Showing items 1 – 15 of 41