Ensofter
Overrated and overhyped
Invaderbank
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Allison Davies
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
charlie-barrett
An absolute class act, from start to finish a brilliant film! Never ceases to entertain.
riczell
As the title stays, I find the movie extremely childish. I was a kid when I saw this movie in the late 90s. I loved it back then, but watching it now, it's just... bad. Horrible story line, terrible roles, bad sets, and just... idiotic. The acting is no good. No offense to the actors/actresses who played their roles, but the directors and producers who wanted these roles played the way they were should be ashamed.It seems like the movie is going for a more comical approach, and fails at this attempt with too many one-liners and over-the-top costume/set designs. I mean, Mr. Freeze smoking a cigar in a frozen lair, and Bane being a Hulk-like ignorant behemoth, but able to drive a car? And then there's Batman and Robin being in strange public settings throughout the movie. I'm not sure how they went from the first two movies to this. If you like the comics and newer releases such as the Dark Knight trilogy, stay away from this one.
shakercoola
This one has come in for a bit of a hammering in recent years from second-rate film critics publishing retrospectives, and compiling lists of 'worst movies ever made'. This one topped one of those lists.
Well, it isn't. But then, it's not a good film either. I saw it on release and came out thinking it was gaudy and meretricious nonsense. However, given the overuse of CGI in blockbuster films these days, and toe-curling dialogue, I will assume witness for the defence for Batman & Robin.
Clooney is perfectly cast in the titular role but ended up somehwat underwhelming. Apart from some well-timed jokes he never seemed to get his teeth into it.
Chris O'Donnell was also well cast with a vigilante partnership problem.But, it is the potent Uma Thurman who steals the show as the staggeringly voluptuous beauty, Poison Ivy, who enters the spirit of pantomime wonderfully. Arnold Schwarzenegger delivers another character seemingly written for his angular delivery, packed full of comic tropes on the words ice and cold.
In recent years there has been a tendency to look for provenance and seriousness to what were two dimensional characters in comics. Director Joel Schumacher just treats the subject matter honestly - it is pure kitsch fantasy harking back to the mid-60s TV series for style.
The budget is there up on the screen in a frenzy of garishness, vibrant colour, exposition, action, and bizarre stage sets. Most of the action is stunts and live sequences.
If you enter the spirit of old fashioned British stage pantomime, of baddies being really bad baddies with a twinkle in their eyes, it is perhaps not the worst couple of hours you've wasted.
cyrillgasser
This movie was one of the worst movies I have ever seen was everyone in it horrible I would say no. But to be honest the only person I like in this film maybe a little bit was George Clooney but all and all this movie is horrible I only like George Clooney but this movie was so awful.
