cinephile-27690
Okay- Batman and Robin IS corny, but that's why I love it! The puns don't bother me but the acting is silly. I don't see why people hate it so much. I mean, people love The Wolf of Wall Street, which has 500+ F words and multiple orgies, but ICE PUNS make a bad movie? I've seen this twice and it's my favorite Batman movie, and my favorite superhero movie after the first 2 Spider Mans(with Tobey Maguire.)
shakercoola
This one has come in for a bit of a hammering in recent years from second-rate film critics publishing retrospectives, and compiling lists of 'worst movies ever made'. This one topped one of those lists.
Well, it isn't. But then, it's not a good film either. I saw it on release and came out thinking it was gaudy and meretricious nonsense. However, given the overuse of CGI in blockbuster films these days, and toe-curling dialogue, I will assume witness for the defence for Batman & Robin.
Clooney is perfectly cast in the titular role but ended up somehwat underwhelming. Apart from some well-timed jokes he never seemed to get his teeth into it.
Chris O'Donnell was also well cast with a vigilante partnership problem.But, it is the potent Uma Thurman who steals the show as the staggeringly voluptuous beauty, Poison Ivy, who enters the spirit of pantomime wonderfully. Arnold Schwarzenegger delivers another character seemingly written for his angular delivery, packed full of comic tropes on the words ice and cold.
In recent years there has been a tendency to look for provenance and seriousness to what were two dimensional characters in comics. Director Joel Schumacher just treats the subject matter honestly - it is pure kitsch fantasy harking back to the mid-60s TV series for style.
The budget is there up on the screen in a frenzy of garishness, vibrant colour, exposition, action, and bizarre stage sets. Most of the action is stunts and live sequences.
If you enter the spirit of old fashioned British stage pantomime, of baddies being really bad baddies with a twinkle in their eyes, it is perhaps not the worst couple of hours you've wasted.
stormhawk2018
I'm not a Batman hardcore fan, but it seems to be a mass assault on IMDb of reviewers who downvoting the reviews that speak the truth about this movie, and upvoting anyone praising it. I honestly wonder if Joel Schumacher is personally paying those IMDb trolls to do this in exchange of bucks.Before his debut, Schumacher (not the F1 racer) was so sure, but so sure that he was going to have tremendous success, that he was already preparing a continuation, that he had signed the main ones a contract for his continuation that already had title: Batman Triumphant (which should have premiered in 1999, celebrating Batman's 60th anniversary).It transformed a Gothic city from dark to turn it into a gay nightclub, full of neon lights, imposing male statues, etc. I saw a promo of this film, in which its director boasted that he had read all the Batman comics and knew very well how to take this character to the movies, I do not really know what kind of comic this man has seen, there are Batman comics , According to the time of publication and this bullshit of film, will be anything but a Batman film.
Starting with George Clooney, he puts on his beating face at all times, either as Bruce Wayne or Batman, for him it gives him the same, Robin, extremely hateful, this character all he does is tantrums, is very plaintive. The villain that Mr. Freeze has nothing, he just says jokes, smiling at every moment, always with a phrase more stupid than the other, and also erroneous, for his suit, no comments. Uma Thurman, was over the top; Alicia Silverstone, the worst choice for a Batgirl, a character who also should never have been on the screen, just to know a couple of judo moves, and is already Batgirl enters the cave and already has its own Batsuit, knows how to use all the Bat-tools and vehicles and knows where is the lair of the villains. And for Bane, it's not worth mentioning, he is just a masked goon, grunting like Frankenstein's monster; and he is easy to defeat pulling the tubes connected on his head. It's said that it is a film made to the spirit of the series from 1965, please, this series has its charm and is better than this swill.Where is the Batman of Burton comics and films? The one who, in order to catch the villains, had to do detective work, as Mr. Nolan. Where is that Batman, who never lets himself be photographed, that Batman that hides in the night? From Batman Forever, who poses for newspapers, comes out on magazine covers, and here he goes to brothel parties, he just had to do the Batusi.Joel Schumacher with this film, happened to be a visionary man, ahead of his time, Why? For the simple fact that filmmakers such as Scary Movie, Hero Movie, etc., do not have to perform their "Batman Movie", Schumacher is ahead of them.1. Close-ups to the butts? Nipples in the suits? What sissy! Why did not they also put on nipples to Batgirl? 2. Acrobatic jumps and choreographies in the style Disney on Ice? And special effects taken out from Power Rangers?3. Sounds of caricatures for blows, falls, etc. I just need to put the Boom! Crash! Pow! 4. Bat-credit card? That was a total insult to fans and common sense. 5. Buddy cars tuned with lights of a thousand colors? The speakers were missing.This film is just abysmal. Please, avoid this film to all cost.
