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Summary: Why?
Review: Why and/or How could they ruin a movie that could have been so good? I don't even have to talk about Mr Freeze becuase we know what kind of dioluge ruined him (he would have been great with better diolouge, MUCH BETTER). The main problem is that the story was too cluttered with too many characters for us to be able to see some depth in them. That and the cheesy dioulouge are my main complaints (oh yeah and the Batman Credit Card, OMG!). But I would give 4 stars to Alicia Silverstone and Uma Thurman as they did the best they could with what was given to them. I did very much enjoy Poison Ivy, she should have had more of an attitude and fight sequences (like Catwoman in "Batman Returns"). Oh, and Bane should not have been in this movie, what a waste of a good Bat-villan. Watchable on Mid-Saturday or Sunday when theres nothing to watch on TV.
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Summary: Batman & Robin-Why oh why oh why?!
Review: Batman was terrific. Batman Returns was excellent. Batman Forever was halfway decent. Batman & Robin is plain terrible. Schumacher dealed the series a crushing blow with this one, and the next (and probably last) Batman film had better be good. George Clooney is okay as Batman/Bruce Wayne, but Chris O' Donnell is downright annoying as Robin and serves as more of a distaction to Batman than a help. Arnold Schwarzenneger is okay as Mr.Freeze, but Uma Thurman is annoying as Poison Ivy. Bane is just a cartoonish clown. Alicia Silverstone is okay as Batgirl, but she is supposed to be Commissioner Gordon's daughter as a redhead and have her own Bat costume. Most of the Batman Forever production team is back. Barbara Ling's production design tops her last one but is too lavish bright. Gotham City is improved but can't compare to the first two films' designs by Anton Furst and Bo Welch. Dennis Virkler's editing is great once again and Stephen Goldblatt's cinematography is good too. Elliot Goldenthal's music is overdone and erratic. John Dykstra's visual effects are overkill. The opening starts good with all the new Bat hardware but is hokey and really stupid. The other action scenes are also poorly done and if you thought Batman Forever was hokey (which it was) get a load of this. The new, redesigned Batmobile is great, I love Robin's Redbird Cycle, and Mr.Freeze's Ice Hammer is incredible. The new suits are very well designed. I like Mr.Freeze's costumes, and Poison Ivy's weren't bad either. The screenplay is terrible. For the next Batman film, toss idiotic director Joel Schumacher out, get rid of Elliot Goldenthal, and get back Tim Burton and Danny Elfman. Get a good screenwriter and a great production team. Get Robert Surtees or John Toll for cinematography, Ken Adam, Peter Lamont, and Bo Welch for production design, someone for costumes, Donald O. Mitchell, Kevin O' Connell, Richard Portman, and Chris Newman for sound, Ben Burtt, Jr., Bruce Stambler, and George Watters II for sound effects editing, Rick Baker for makeup, and Dennis Muren, Richard Edlund, Ken Ralston and John Dykstra for visual effects. I hope the next film will be the best.
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Summary: This movie is Terrific
Review: This movie has all the elements needed for a film of it's kind; Great special effects, seasoned actors who know how to deliver, tons of imagination and a fun story line. What more could you ask for?
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Summary: The end of Batman movies
Review: George Clooney plays a weak Batman in this last film of the series where Schmacher used campy dialoge and no script to pass as a so called Batman film. Silverstone makes a weak Bat-girl and O" Donnel can;t even play Robin anymore. It was the end of the series with this film and Warner Brothers was so embraased by it, that they might not make a new Batman film again for ten years. This movie pretty much killed the Batman movies and place it in the history of doing one too many sequals like what happened with Jaws, Alien, and the Superman sequals.
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Summary: Why this movie was made, I don't know
Review: Schumacher nearly destroyed the Batman series (if he did not already) and turned a lucrative franchise into a laughing stock. There are several reasons why this movie is not even fit for cat litter, but I will just hit the highlights. Jim Carrey is still in his "Biggest 12 year old boy around" stage. This means 12 year old boys will love his performance, but everyone else will find it demeaning and painful. Frank Gorshwin (the original Riddler)had the intellegence to balance it with class. Jim Carrey is just plain scary, and you get the feeling that if he goes senile in old age, this will be one of the characters he will confuse with real life. Alicia Silverstone is a good batgirl (She's not anorexic)but her character is supposed to be COMISSIONER GORDON's DAUGHTER who is a Librarian/College Student while moonlighting as Batgirl. This REDHEAD is also supposed to have her own bat-cowl and ears. Although no where near as bad as Carrey's performance, it is still disappointing that the writers were so careless with the planning and decision making surounding this movie. The set itself lacks the brooding and drama that made the first two (as well as the animated series) so sucessful. Heck, it was so insulting, it even made the campy Adam West series look good by comparison. From start to finish, it looks as if the set designers and directors spent a little too much time in the hard party scene, because that is the type of decorating that is prevalent. Chris O'Donnell and George Clooney (who had some shoes to fill)do a good job as does Schwarzenegger (even if his Mr. Freeze could have been a little less cartoony) but this by no means justifies the film. No self respecting fan of the Batman series should buy this film
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Summary: BATMAN 4 IS THE WORST BUT DID HAVE SOME SOME GOOD MOMENTS
Review: Batman's fourth outing shows that Warner Bros. has some stupid writers. Overly campy, pathetic "plot" that is only recognized for stunning SFX, and just lame lines. I was shocked to see such respected veterans of the first two films appearing in a trashy flick. The plot is the same as FOREVER with some new villains, who played their parts well- for a horrible script. I really the special effects, but this movie deserves to be forgotten. It is a real shame that Batman turned from cool, dark, and with a touch of humor, to appear in such an atrocity. Tim Burton brought greatness to Batman, then Shumaccher(or whoever he is) screwed it up. Please come back Tim Burton and Michael Keaton!
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Summary: deservedly the worst movie of 1997
Review: This movie won the "raspberry award" for 1997. The raspberry award is given by a group that makes fun of the oscars by selecting the worst actress, director, worst picture, etc. and awarding them yearly. This movie deserved what it got. With some of the worst dialogue I've ever heard, action scenes that made me yawn, and costumes that brought shame to the "batman" franchise, this movie should be shunned by the old and young alike.
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Summary: A CLASSIC FOR THE AGES
Review: BOY WEN MY KIDS GROW UP AND ASK WHAT WAS THE DEFINING MOVIE OF THE PEPSI GENERATION I AM GOING TO SAY BATMAN AND ROBIN WHAT A GREAT STORY LINE SPECIAL EFFEX ROCK AND SMASHING PUMPKINS RULEW THE SOUNDTRACK FORGET BRAVEHEART AND GONE WITH THE WIND BATMAN AND ROBIN IS THE BEST WE LOVE YOU SHOEMAKER/CLOONEY AND ALICIA TOO ODONNEL WAS JUST OK CANT WAIT FOR BATMAN 5 AND 6 HOPE THEY BRING BACK ARNOLD
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Summary: The worst movie I have ever seen...
Review: And I've seen some really awful movies in my time. This movie is bad on every level. The scenery that was at least sort of interesting in Batman Forever now looks silly and stupid (as if people would build highways around 300 story statues in the middle of a crowded city). The acting is surprisingly terrible, considering there are some good actors in this movie. George Clooney makes it obvious that he really doesn't want to be in any of his scenes (and who would want to, what with the bad dialogue!). Uma Thurman somehow misfires her wannabe-camp portrayal of the vampy Poison Ivy; Chris O'Donnell only annoys with his constant whining of cliched lines like "you're just jealous!"; and Ah-nuld merely spouts mesmerizingly unfunny one-liners that will just give you a headache. And poor Alicia Silverstone spends the entire movie trying to look cute with puppy-dog eyes on overdrive, but it just seems like she's trying too hard in the end. As for the rest of the movie, the plot is stupid, the villains mesmerizingly annoying and lacking in the camp value they strive for, and the movie doesn't even follow up on it's sub-plots! Elle Macpherson's here-then-gone character of Bruce Wayne's girlfriend is last seen halfway through the movie (if you make it that far) presenting Bruce with the marry me or I'm leaving you ultimatum - and we never see or hear about that again! The only resolution you'll get is on the main struggle, after the overblown final battle - and even that resolution feels stupid. The dialogue is alternately pointless (in non-action scenes, apparently the director was only half interested in anything that didn't include explosions), banal, cliched, or unfunny. Believe me, I could go on with reasons not to see this movie, so just take my word for it. I don't even care about the money I wasted seeing it, I just want those two hours back!
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Summary: If I could have given this film minus stars I would !
Review: This is quite simply the worst film I have ever seen. The film just lurches from one circus act into another, Batman on ice, Batman on motorbikes and so on. The plot and script seem to have been an afterthought (and not much of an afterthought at that). How anyone can justify spending millions of dollars on such a creation is beyond me. I think it is time that this franchise, which has been dying a slow death since the original film, should be put to bed.
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