The fourth Bat-flick finds this juvenile franchise running on empty.
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01/26/06
Batman & Robin (1997)
12 %
Reviews Counted: 58 Fresh: 7 Rotten:51 Average Rating: 3.5/10
Consensus:
Joel Schumacher's tongue-in-cheek attitude hits an unbearable limit in Batman & Robin resulting in a frantic and mindless movie that's too jokey to care much for.
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Synopsis: The Caped Crusader returns to battle the abominable Mr. Freeze and green-thumbed Poison Ivy. To save his ailing wife, Dr. Victor Fries turns to a life of crime after a hideous accident makes him unable to tolerate even moderate temperatures, while Dr. Pamela Isley falls victim to mutated... [More]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Uma Thurman, Alicia Silverstone
Director: Joel Schumacher
Screenwriter: Akiva Goldsman, Christopher McQuarrie
Producer: Peter MacGregor-Scott
Composer: Elliot Goldenthal
Screenwriter: Akiva Goldsman, Christopher McQuarrie
Producer: Peter MacGregor-Scott
Composer: Elliot Goldenthal
Reviews
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A high-rent jumble sale of smarty-pants pop-culture gags and expensive tchochtkes.
04/16/07
Top Critic
The villains, Arnold Schwarzenegger and especially Uma Thurman in this instance, remain the highlights here, as the rest of the gargantuan production lacks the dash and excitement that would have given the franchise a boost in its eighth year.
04/16/07
Top Critic
This fourth modern Batman film features perhaps the worst screenplay -- or at least the worst dialogue -- ever written.
10/27/05
Schumacher's intention appears to have been to make something so awful, so corny, so campy, so preposterously bad that audiences would simply laugh at it. Sorry. Bad is bad.
10/17/05
I don't know anyone who'll admit to liking BATMAN AND ROBIN. Except me.
06/27/05
It represents the things I really, really dislike about Hollywood and its overblown product.
04/09/05
Alfred posits, "For what is Batman if not an effort to master the chaos that sweeps our world? An attempt to control death itself." Okay, fine, but we get this and dick jokes?
01/29/05
Burton's Batman was capable of snapping criminal spine -- Schumacher's is a sissy lib who believes in redemption, if not the possibility of rehabilitation.
01/02/05
Devoid of a point of view, a narrative structure, intelligent dialogue and three-dimensional (or even two-dimensional) characters, the latest Batman movie is much more like a violence-oriented video game than a form of dramatic art.
05/20/03
By most accounts, the worst of the series - yet I like it the best. Probably because my expectations were so low to begin with. Clooney breathes some life back into the role.
03/21/03
It is great film to look at. The movie in-jokes are quite good too.
03/16/03
Campy costumes can't disguise the incoherent plot, confused performances and lame script that send this star vehicle spiralling downward.
11/15/02
Warner Brothers owns the Batman character; you would think they would have a vested interest in doing a good job of the films, but the films themselves prove that they don't -- and this film provides the most numbing, sickening, inane proof of all.
11/07/02
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