Well here's the last of the original movie franchise. The worst one. The terrifyingly horrible one. One of the very worst movies ever known to mankind. The one and thankfully only, Batman and Robin.
Plot: Batman and Robin continue their partnership after the events of Batman Forever. They now face three new villains. One is named Mr. Freeze who is stealing diamond in attempt to get more research in finding a cure for his wife who has a rare disease and has been frozen by Mr. Freeze until he can cure her. The second and third villains are Poison Ivy, a woman with the intentions to take over the world with her plants, and her bodyguard, Bane who has super strength due to the drug Venom. But while this is happening, Alfred is dying of the same disease that Mr. Freeze's wife has, and his niece from England, Barbra has come to visit.
Blood-Frick is this movie awful!!!! Remember when I said how Batman Forever is bad because it was too big of a change and too much for kids? They were being polite there - you know what, polite doesn't even cover it. Sure none of the villains were overacting and acting like total Saturday cartoon villains, (except for probably Bane), but we still get lots of pretty lights unnecessarily - this time instead of being in a lot of the props, there's some on the Batmobile, Mr. Freeze's costume - and while it's brief we still have criminals with glow in the dark make-up. Then it gets worse. For the kids, we get countless cliches such as villains who want to take over the world, cartoon sound effects and terrible puns, usually ones that have to do with ice. And then there's plot holes that don't make sense such as *WARNING SPOILER...NOT THAT ANYONE REALLY CARES* 1) why didn't Batman use the heater ray thingy to cripple Mr. Freeze so that he'll have enough time to rescue Robin. 2) why did Freeze spare Batman instead of killing him while he was escaping earlier in the film? 3) Why did Robin reveal to Poison Ivy that he had rubber lips and 4) how exactly was ivy defeated by being knocked back into her plant that's suppose to be her throne or whatever.*END OF SPOILERS* Also, the action was poorly done and not that exciting. And finally, if there's one thing that's absolutely stupid, is how when Robin rammed through a wall, he made the Robin signal out of the hole on the wall, which I'm just like...what?
Actors/Characters:
George Clooney/Batman: Is he the worst batman so far? Sadly, yes. He just wasn't into it. Although to be fair, this movie wasn't exactly the kind where he could no matter how much he tried. But for me, I just can't take the idea seriously. Because similar to how I partly feel about Anne Hathaway being Catwoman for Dark Knight Rises, I've seen a lot of Cooney's movies from O Brother Were Art Thou to The Descendants. And...I'm not sure if this is the right way to explain it, but knowing him from those films, just makes the idea of him being someone like Batman just seems off.
Chris O'Donnell/Robin: He was annoying. I mean he was right at some points when it came to how stubborn Batman can be, but the way he displayed was just less than amusing.
Arnold Schwarzenegger/Mr. Freeze: In fairness, the majority of his lines where really stupid. But still, his all around performance was not amusing at all...and now that I think about it, his helmet sort of make him look like Megatron from Transformers.
Michael Gough/Alfred: Now The one thing I did like were the little dramatic moments concerning Alfred and his sickness. In fact, there's plenty of reasons to say otherwise, but for the most part, I thought the one dramatic moment between Bruce and Alfred was a little nice.
Music: The theme is still just okay. The rest I couldn't care less about.
Editing: Yeah the editing was not particularly special, as there were a couple of edits that I thought were dump. For instance, I think there could've been a better way to bring Bane into the scene when Poison Ivy appear rather than just cut to a clip of him as a way of showing that Ivy has noticed him. Also when Robin was being dragged underwater by Ivy's plants, there was a shot where he was suppose to get out from underwater then dragged back in. But how did they do that? They just played that part of the clip then played it in reverse. On top of that, the shot that they used for that, is the shot that was used for him actually getting fully out of the water.
And that's my review for Batman and Robin. It's way to kid-friendly, has way to many cliches, terrible acting, and...well you get the idea. But we should be thankful that Joel Schumacher has made an apology for anyone who was highly disappointed in this film. It is nice to know that at least someone among the people who have made disappointing film have done something like that. So points for Schumacher, but still a horrid film.
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