Batman And Robin - Special Edition [DVD] [1997]

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Customer reviews

review by: Conor Larkin date: 2008-10-20 rating:
Rubbish
Well I have better bad names to call this mess of a movie. Loved the first and second movie, Third movie ok but this is a bad movie. Im suprised it didn't kill off the Batman movie name for good. Its like watching an updated campy Batman tv series from the 60's. I have all the Batman movies except this because I can't bring myself to buy it its that bad. Avoid this movie.

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review by: date: 2008-09-22 rating:
Christian Bale and George Clooney As Batman.
I think that George Clooney is the closest Batman ever to portrait the voice of Kevin Conroy. What's most important is that George is suitable for this role because he seems quite old enough to play the role of or act as Batman. I agree with the rest of the people when they start talking about the nipples on the suit because they don't look right and their wasn't any need for them. Michael Keaton is too short when you see him as Batman or even in his other movies ,his lips are very dry and somewhat a bit oversized. Val Kilmer looks really funny when he's wearing the mask and certainly looks like a filipino. Christian Bale and George Clooney are the best because they really do look handsome when wearing the suits in terms of height,expression on the face and appearance.

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review by: date: 2008-09-11 rating:
Lame and unentertaining
Arnold Schwarzenegger was never the greatest actor of all time, but he's particularly poor in this movie. br / br /Grieving the death of his wife, he goes about weilding a powerful weapon that freezes people on the spot. Uma Thurman plays a strangely dressed, hypnotic woman called "Poison Ivy". It may suit certain audiences but personally I found it all quite boring and unconvincing. br /

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review by: date: 2008-08-10 rating:
A little TOO camp...
After 3 insanely entertaining Batman movies - Two from Tim Burton, one produced by Burton and directed by Joel Schumacher, the forth film in this mildly-canonical series throws Tim Burton out of the picture altogether. br / br /Unfortunately, it seems Tim Burton had been an important part of modern-day Batman (before Christopher Nolan came along), putting restraint on that comic book cheese factor we all love in certain doses, because Batman Robin loses the whole sense of ironic dark humour which kept the first three movies special and unleashes a river of cheese that the Tim Burton dam was once holding back so that we wouldn't drown. br / br /That's not to say Tim Burton's Batman films and Batman Forever were all doom and gloom - but they had a smart way of being camp, a sort of gothic-fairytale irony that only Burton can pull off, and this time around, Schumacher just didn't seem to get it, and he created a childrens' Saturday morning cartoon, a silly goofball adventure, a resurrection 60s Batman minus the satire. br / br /What bugs me about the movie, though, is the spoiled potential. After the clever marriage of camp cartoon villains and dark vigilante storylines in Forever, Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze and Uma Therman as Poison Ivy could have taken this to a whole new level, but the film turns not just the villains, but Batman and his crew as well, into pantomime characters. Freeze doesn't have a line of dialogue without some kind of cringeworthy refrence to ice, Ivy's acting has you waiting for the audience to hiss and yell "It's behind you!" and the Dark Knight and co. have become Inspector Gadget and friends. br / br /Every cliché in the book is here - the sidekick is tired of being the sidekick, the motorbiking blonde girl finds out the truth and joins the crew (Using the suit which Alfred made for her when he predicted that she would find out and want to join.... Yeah...), the old man is terminally ill... br / br /On top of all this, after Michael Keaton and Val Kilmer both providing decent Bruce Waynes and Bat-men, George Clooney has been cast and everything which made Batman, well, Batman, is basically out of the window. br / br /I always have a soft spot for spoiled films with a lot of missed potential, and Batman and Robin oozes it. The visuals are something to behold. Much like the previous film, neon tube lights, UV paint and brightly coloured spotlights turn Tim Burton's previously established gothic-fairytale Gotham city into a spectacular light show. Batman's getup and arsenal take on a suitedly high-tech appearance (Makes sense, right?), and Alicia Silverstone is eye candy enough by herself. Visually, this is as "comic book" as movies are going to get this side of animation or perhaps UltraViolet. br / br /It's just a pity that the visuals are wasted on such an embarassingly over-camp affair. Even fans of the 60s Batman will be embarassed to watch this in front of friends or relatives, and you'll even cringe seeing this movie alone. br / br /Great for kids, but you don't sequel age-restricted movies for adults with a children's movie! br / br /...A Bat Credit Card?


review by: date: 2008-07-25 rating:
"I'm Taking You To The Cooler", Enough said
The worst film ever,Arnold Schwarzenegger's "I'm Taking You To The Cooler" line is still used to this day to punctuate how bad it is, it doesn't even deserve a 1 star rating.

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