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DVD Batman & Robin (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Following Val Kilmer's portrayal of the caped crusader in Batman Forever, the fourth Batman feature stars George Clooney under the pointy-eared cowl, with Chris O'Donnell returning as Robin the Boy Wonder. This time the dynamic duo is up against the nefarious Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger), who is bent on turning the world into an iceberg, and the slyly seductive but highly toxic Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman), who wants to eliminate all animal life and turn the Earth into a gigantic greenhouse. Alicia Silverstone lends a hand as Batgirl, and Elle McPherson plays the thankless role of Batman/Bruce Wayne's fiancée. A sensory assault of dazzling colors, senseless action, and lavish sets run amok, this Batman & Robin offers an overdose of eye candy, but it is strictly for devoted Bat-o-philes. --Jeff Shannon
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insultingly bad
Honestly, I think I'd rather stare at that flash animation of Adam West going "ughabuggha" for two hours than sit through this again.
And one star is being nice
What a horrible horrible movie. Where to begin?
After Batman Forever, which was a decent little comic book movie, Warner Bros asks the director of this fourth installment of the Batman franchise, to lighten it up a lot. But Joel took that to the extreme.
Instead of the Dark Knight bad-ass that we are introduced to in the first 2 films and kinda in the 3rd, Batman is all of a sudden a real nice smooth talking friendly guy. The man has been a loner and very distant and not that friendly to people all his life, then all of a sudden in this movie he has a personality change.
Batman & Robin should have never gotten made. The nipples are back on the bat-suit. George Clooney portrays Batman totally opposite of what the character is supose to be portrayed like, Alicia Silverstone plays a character thats the niece of Alfred and is annoying as heck, Chris O'Donnell returns and dresses nothing like Robin, but like Nightwing with a cape and is taller than Batman, Arnold plays Mr. Freeze and delivers some of the worse one liners in movie history, Bane is made out to be a buffon which is totally unlike his comic version (which is a good villian in the comics), and the whole movie looks like a horrible cartoon with more neon lights every where you turn.
The only good thing I could think that was in this film was Uma Thurman. Her character of Poison Ivy is campy and dumb (unlike her comic version which is smart and cruel) but she does a good job of entertaining you. At least her looks do.
If you are buying all the movies seperate, do not waste your $15-$20 on this. Buying Batman, Batman Returns, and Batman Forever and act like this never existed. In fact, thats what Warner Bros should do, is take all the copies in the world of this movie and burn it.
Am I exagerating a little? Well you see the movie, but don't say I didn't warn you...
Joel Shumacher finally vindicated himself
I've never read a single Batman comic or watched a single (whole) episode of the original animated series. Therefore, my opinion of this movie is the opinion of a normal moviegoer who can judge Batflicks as movies in their own right, without getting hung up on whether or not they contradict the comics. And B&R not the only Batflick to contradict the comics, either. Both Batman '89 and Batman Begins contradicted the comics by revealing the identity of the killer of Bruce's parents, and removing the idea that any punk Batman faces on the streets could be the killer. Batman Returns futzed with the origins of both Penguin, who was originally just the normal son of the owner of a bird store, and Catwoman, who was originally a stewardess (and in later comics, a hooker). Batman Forever made the Riddler an employee of Wayne enterprises and made Two-Face the killer of Robin's parents - again, not from the comics. The only real complaint that can be levelled only against a Batman movie is that it's not dark enough - Gotham city should look, well, gothic, and not like a cross between a rave and a circus. That being said, I've felt for a long time that Batman & Robin, though not a great movie, is still a good movie, even if it's not a good _Batman_ movie. It's not Batman Begins, but then again, it's not Catwoman, either. If you look past the day-glo graffiti, laser light shows, and rubber nipples (which were sadly absent from Batgirl's costume...), there's a smart, solid movie under all of it. Unfortunately, this was lost among people who felt that it was too colorful, too much like the campy '60s TV series, and too different from the comics, and they blamed Joel Schumacher for running the franchise into the ground. But now that we have a Two-Disc Special Edition with a commentary by Joel Schumacher, we are all given a second chance to look at this movie in a different way. I must say that I'm VERY glad I listened to the commentary. Most of Joel's comments are anywhere from useless ("Batgirl is played by Alicia Silverstone," "here's yet another shot of Gotham City," etc.) to simply amusing ("If you like a movie, you have hundreds of people to thank for it, but if you hate a movie, blame the director"). However, he does provide some extremely insightful information about why the movie was made the way it was. He denies allegations that he was trying to make the movie similar to the '60s TV series, saying that the show didn't even cross his mind. He even says "I don't like jokes" at one point. He says that he actually wanted to do a darker movie based on the Year One comic, but WB wanted him to make the movies more colorful, entertaining, kid-friendly, toy-friendly, and product-placement-friendly. However, he also accepts full responsibility for the way the movie turned out, admitting that he was happy to do the movie either way and pointing out that the script's writer won an Oscar (for a different movie). He explains how he chose the movie's villains, and that he went through every issue of the comics and every episode of the animated series that featured these villains. He explains why Bane was dumbed down, why Batgirl was made Alfred's niece, and why Bruce Wayne was made "less self-absorbed", and I think that all of his reasons are pretty good. In the end, you just have to take this movie for what it is. If you like grand, colorful, gorgeous, fun action movies with a lot of heart and wit, then you should like Batman and Robin. If you can't swallow such a movie just because it has "Batman" in the title, then you won't like Batman and Robin, but you should still give the commentary a chance.
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