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Batman & Robin (1997)

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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.
 

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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... 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 plant DNA when things go awry in a jungle laboratory funded by Wayne Industries. Of course, though their interests are diametrically opposed (Freeze wants another Ice Age; Ivy wants to make the world safe for plants), the two villains team up to defeat Gotham's dynamic duo of Batman and Robin, who are joined by butler Alfred's motorcycle-obsessed niece as Batgirl. And when Alfred is diagnosed as having the same terminal disease as Freeze's wife, the trio find themselves not only fighting an altruistic battle, but a personal one as well. A frenetic, colorful, and often overwhelming sequel to "Batman," "Batman Returns," and "Batman Forever." [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

DVD Info

Release:

Jun 10, 2006

[DVD Details]
  • Batman & Robin: Special Edition
  • George Clooney plays the Dark Knight, facing his deadliest threat yet: cold-hearted Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and venemous Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman). Batman has more than Gotham City to protect: the youthful eagerness of crimefighting comrades Robin (Chris O'Donnell) and Batgirl (Alicia Silverstone) puts them frequently in harm's way. New very special effecst include a wild sky-surfing sequence and Mr. Freeze's outrageous arsenal of ice-blasting weapons. Joel Schumacher directs.
  • Source: Warner Home Video
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    The fourth Bat-flick finds this juvenile franchise running on empty.

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    01/26/06
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    3/5

    Both plot and audience attention span stretch to breaking point.

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    01/16/02
    Neil Jeffries
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    1/5

    This franchise has gotten aggressively unsatisfying.

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    07/23/07
    Rob Gonsalves
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    Loud, uninspired, and interminable.

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    04/16/07
    Jonathan Rosenbaum
    Chicago Reader
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    2/4

    A high-rent jumble sale of smarty-pants pop-culture gags and expensive tchochtkes.

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    04/16/07
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    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.

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    04/16/07
    Todd McCarthy
    Variety
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    This fourth modern Batman film features perhaps the worst screenplay -- or at least the worst dialogue -- ever written.

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    10/27/05
    Jeffrey M. Anderson
    Combustible Celluloid
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    3/10

    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.

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    10/17/05
    John J. Puccio
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    I don't know anyone who'll admit to liking BATMAN AND ROBIN. Except me.

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    06/27/05
    Luke Y. Thompson
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    It represents the things I really, really dislike about Hollywood and its overblown product.

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    04/09/05
    Robin Clifford
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    1.5/4

    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?

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    01/29/05
    Peter Canavese
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    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.

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    01/02/05
    Philip Martin
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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    Like most sequels, Batman has lost steam after three.

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    06/23/04
    Judith Egerton
    Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
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    The title that managed to kill modern-day Batman movies.

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    08/26/03
    Dragan Antulov
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    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.

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    05/20/03
    Leonard Schwarz
    Palo Alto Weekly
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    3/5

    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.

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    03/21/03
    Brian Mckay
    eFilmCritic.com
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    It is great film to look at. The movie in-jokes are quite good too.

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    03/16/03
    Robert Roten
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    Campy costumes can't disguise the incoherent plot, confused performances and lame script that send this star vehicle spiralling downward.

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    11/15/02
    Liam Lacey
    Globe and Mail
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    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.

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    11/07/02
    James Rocchi
    Netflix
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    [Schumacher's] storytelling is limp, and the characters lack energy.

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    11/06/02
    Jeff Strickler
    Minneapolis Star Tribune
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