Batman & Robin [M]

A new villain is terrorising Gotham City; a cool-suited menace who calls himself Mr. Freeze. As if Batman and Robin don’t have enough on their plates; arguing between themselves; yet another villain rises; an evilly beautiful woman named Poison Ivy, who teams up with Mr. Freeze and sets out to turn Gotham into an ice land overrun with carnivorous plants. Can Batman and Robin put aside their squabbling and save Gotham? 

Oh man, this movie is terrible. It’s so bad, but it’s so funny! It’s got camp, comic book clichés, spewing forth left, right, and centre! Throughout the entire film you’re just yelling at the TV “OH COME ON!” It’s bloody hilarious! 

A new villain is terrorising Gotham City; a cool suited menace who calls himself Mr. Freeze. As if Batman and Robin don’t have enough on their plates; arguing between themselves, yet another villain rises; an evilly beautiful woman who calls herself Poison Ivy and joins up with Freeze, setting out to turn Gotham into an ice land overrun with carnivorous plants. Can Batman and Robin set aside their squabbling to save Gotham from its frosty fate? 

Really, the only positive thing to say about this movie is that it is so bad that it’s actually rather funny. Oh, and I will admit that Poison Ivy’s costumes and makeup were pretty wicked too. Seriously, it was as though a child on a sugar-rush wrote this screenplay and script. There is no explanation to anything, and if there is, it is said in one sentence that can be easily missed amidst the overdone gadgets, and psychedelic lighting. Case in point; Barbara, Alfred’s niece, finds the Bat Cave and, in the space of no time at all, Alfred as already made her a bat suit, she has her own motorcycle and all her own gadgets. I mean what the hell? Where is the story? This movie was all throw-everything-cliched-at-the-audience-and-then-let-them-know-what’s-going-on-in-a-sentence. It is so bad! AND THE ENDING LINE! OH MY GOD! It’s terrible! I’m literally in hysterics writing about all this! 

Starring George Clooney, Chris O’Donnell. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Uma Thurman, Michael Gough, Alicia Silverstone, and Elle McPherson, Batman & Robin is two steps below Batman Forever, at least that movie had some storytelling merit and more complex characters. Filled with action, gadgets, sexy outfits, drama, and cheesy, but memorable quotes, it’s a movie that I admit is really bad, but I’ll watch it because it just makes me laugh. You cannot help but laugh at how clichéd this movie is. Priceless!

Take two of these and call me in the morning.