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Batman & Robin

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This superhero adventure finds Batman (George Clooney) and his partner, Robin (Chris O'Donnell), attempting to the foil the sinister schemes of a deranged set of new villains, most notably the melancholy Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger), who wants to make Gotham into an arctic region, and the sultry Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman), a plant-loving femme fatale. As the Dynamic Duo contends with these bad guys, a third hero, Batgirl (Alicia Silverstone), joins the ranks of the city's crime-fighters.
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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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Peter Bradshaw Guardian 05/17/2019
3/5
An amiable, almost farcical Batman episode, with George in Nespresso mode. Go to Full Review
Jason Bailey Flavorwire 06/18/2017
Schumacher is like a bad stepdad who thinks we'll love him if he just feeds us candy all day. (Yes, Burton is the daddy in this metaphor - the manic-depressive, annoyingly emo daddy.) Go to Full Review
Joe Morgenstern Wall Street Journal 06/18/2014
Of all modern Batmans, George Clooney bears the closest physical resemblance to the comic-book hero, but there isn't much to say about his performance because there isn't much performance to discuss. Go to Full Review
Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Nov 22
1/4
About as much fun as a 20-year stint in a Turkish prison. Go to Full Review
Trace Thurman Horror Queers Podcast 12/12/2022
2.5/5
It's not good, but it's not the total disaster its legacy would suggest. As an ode to the Silver Age of the Caped Crusader, it gets a lot of things right, but the pacing grinds to a halt any time one of our heroes is on screen. Thank god for Uma Thurman. Go to Full Review
Joe Lipsett Horror Queers Podcast 12/07/2022
2/5
There's pleasure to be found in how campy Joel Schumacher's second Batman outing is (puns!), but everyone except Thurman and Schwarzenegger are phoning their performances in. Too long and too focused on toy sales, this is excess, but not the good kind. Go to Full Review
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Bakercakes 05/26/2023 It pains me to write this, as I’ve been a Batman fan since I could first remember, but this movie is borderline unwatchable. Everything from the script, to the way it’s shot/edited, leaves one wondering what the Hell everybody involved with it was thinking, as it was being made. See more FUN PARK @FUN_PARK 2d A film from my childhood, I watched it with rapture. See more Pietro A @101rotten Jan 11 I'ts funny? Yes, too much? Yes, thats the problem, if it was a little bit more serious i would give 5 stars, because arnold's acting it's awesome! See more Jhulio F @JFerreira44 Jan 11 Essa e uma daquelas provas que, as vezes elenco, não salva filme. E triste dizer isso pois sou fã do Batman e todos seus filmes e quadrinhos, mas este filme e uma vergonha a toda a história do Batman. See more Maksim S @MaksimusMovies Dec 19 Batman & Robin is less a superhero film than a loud caricature of one. Any sense of myth or menace is buried under endless puns, toyetic excess, and a script so flimsy it feels like a parody of the franchise rather than a continuation of it. There are fleeting moments of campy fun, but they’re nowhere near enough to sustain the runtime. Arnold Schwarzenegger is badly miscast, delivering one-liners where a villain should have presence, and the story collapses under its own silliness. Ironically, it’s the film’s darkly colorful production design — neon sets, exaggerated visuals — that does most of the heavy lifting. Visually loud but creatively hollow, Batman & Robin is a cautionary tale in excess. See more Davi 1 @Davitr3 Nov 21 There are bad films… and then there is Batman & Robin — a cinematic catastrophe so complete that it becomes a case study in how every creative decision can fail simultaneously. What should’ve been a triumphant continuation of Batman’s mythology becomes a plastic carnival stripped of weight, consequence, or artistic intention. Joel Schumacher’s direction abandons any notion of subtlety, drowning the film in neon excess until the Dark Knight becomes nothing more than a rubber mannequin. The performances collapse under the camp: George Clooney looks uncomfortable inside the cowl, Chris O’Donnell acts like he’s in a 90s toy commercial, and Arnold Schwarzenegger delivers one-liners that wouldn’t work even in Saturday morning cartoons. The script is a patchwork of bad jokes, shallow motivations, and an almost awe-inspiring inability to understand what makes Batman dramatic. Everything feels hollow, infantilized, artificial — especially painful when we remember the gothic majesty Burton had established earlier. Rating: 1/10 See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis This superhero adventure finds Batman (George Clooney) and his partner, Robin (Chris O'Donnell), attempting to the foil the sinister schemes of a deranged set of new villains, most notably the melancholy Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger), who wants to make Gotham into an arctic region, and the sultry Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman), a plant-loving femme fatale. As the Dynamic Duo contends with these bad guys, a third hero, Batgirl (Alicia Silverstone), joins the ranks of the city's crime-fighters.
Director
Joel Schumacher
Producer
Peter Macgregor-Scott
Screenwriter
Akiva Goldsman, Bob Kane
Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co
Warner Bros., PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Rating
PG-13 (Strong Stylized Action|Some Innuendo)
Genre
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 20, 1997, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 31, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$107.3M
Runtime
2h 10m
Sound Mix
Dolby SR, DTS, Dolby Stereo, Surround, SDDS, Dolby A, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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