thank the lord almighty i wasn't some teenage nerd when this movie came out. i would have been totally disappointed.
Plot: Gotham City is currently being threatened by former district attorney Harvey Dent who is now super villain Two-Face. During his reign of terror, he kills a family of acrobats save for the youngest son, Dick whom Bruce takes under his wing. Meanwhile, Wayne Enterprise employee Edward Nygma become furious with Bruce Wayne because he shuts down the research for his invention. So while in attempt to have his revenge, he forms an alliance against Batman with Two-Face as the new villain, The Riddler.
Now I admit that adding more of the story of what happens to Bruce after his parents died was a nice dramatic touch. Some of the design such as Robin's costume and the new Batmobile were pretty cool. And It was nice with how loyal they were to the original story of Robin. Now...where the frick to begin with the downs... well for one thing, it's made probably way too much for kids. I mean we have Jim Carrey and Jones with their acting being all cartoon like. And then there's lights. there are lights on practically almost every. single. fricking. prop. we have lights on the rounds on the machine guns, we have lights on the musical instruments on the party scene, we have lights on the batarang and the Bat-Tazer. There's no reason to do that at all! The way they were trying to be dark (or at least I think this is how they were trying to still be dark) was silly. I mean you have 'spooky' music that seems to be the theme or something for The Riddler, criminals acted like they were crazy natives with glow-in-the-dark makeup and costumes. And the setting is probably too different from what we remember. Because with Batman and Batman Returns we have Gotham a place where it's kind of the modern world back then mixed in a comic book world. But now we have a city that's modern back when the movie came out, but with crazy stuff going on like gangs dressed like crazy natives with glow-in-the-dark make-up. On the whole, I can understand that maybe Batman needed to be a little lighter to the general public back then after Batman Returns. But the change is so bad that it may still be fun in the action and story kind of way, but as a Batman film, it just flops to give us the fun yet dark adventure that we enjoy from the Dark Knight.
Actors/Characters:
Val Kilmer/Bruce Wayne a.k.a. Batman: I thought he gave a sort of average performance in being Bruce Wayne and Batman. With Batman, he gave a good voice in terms of trying to disguise his voice at least a little bit to hide his identity. But I think the main issue was being Bruce Wayne. He wasn't horrible, in fact he probably did the best acting among the leading cast. But it's hard to accept the super big change between him and Michael Keaton.
Jim Carrey/The Riddler: Jim Carrey does his thing. Moves like he's a cartoon and everything. Which is fine if you just want to enjoy Jim Carrey being Jim Carrey. But long before I became for familiar with the villain, I knew that The Riddler is not so super crazy Jim Carrey Style. Now sure he's the way he's suppose to be with still giving riddles and stuff. If you were looking at the script or maybe just the outline for it for all we know. But what comes out of it, maybe fun for kids and Jim Carrey fans, but for everyone else...it's just not right.
Tommy Lee Jones/Two-Face: What, I repeat, WHAT THE FRICK IS WITH JONES MAKING A JOKER OUT OF TWO-FACE!?!?! I mean if you think about it, his movement, energy, even his laugh in a certain way was just a little more like Joker. Really, Jones did some serious overacting in this film. Really that's the whole problem with both him and Carrey. They totally overacted (which is expected of Carrey but not so much with Jones) and that from a point of view of the script or just the general outline of this movie, they would be the way they were suppose to be. But what comes afterwords in terms of acting and also costume and makeup in Jones' case, just gave us completely different characters then what is wanted out of those villain being in a movie as far as a lot of us are concerned.
Music: While prefer the Danny Elfman score always when it comes to the original movie series. But the score for this movie is not that bad. But again, the 'spooky' music that seemed to be the theme for The Riddler, just didn't work with that kind of villain.
And that's my review for Batman Forever. You may still gets some adventure and fun out of it. But the way that it's made probably too much for kids, the overacting from Carry and Jones giving us different characters, and just some of the changes all around from the criminals to the setting of Gotham City all around is just too much.
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