Batman & Robin1997

20/100 Behold, the camp of Batman Forever displayed without any of the charm that made the previous movie a winner. This movie is just bad, and its bad in a way that's more confusing than anything else. Like any bad superhero movie, this movie has like four or five plots and most of them are terrible. Poison Ivy's storyline is just Catwoman again but somehow worse, Bane gets another bad adaptation to add to the pile (I'm pretty sure his actor isn't even listed in the credits) and Mr. Freeze, one of the most tragic Batman villains, is now...making ice puns. Cool. And Batwoman's here as well, as if we needed another character I don't care about. If I went into this movie blind, I would not come out thinking Batman's a cool guy. He seems kind of lame, in fact, and loses basically every major fight. Clooney's Dark Knight is alright, but a major step down from Keaton and Kilmer's fantastic performances. At the core of this movie, there is a genuinely good story about the inevitability of death of all things(?!), but it's sadly buried beneath layers and layers of trash. This is a movie I can see being fun for others, but I guess it wasn't for me. If you watched Batman Forever and want something that ups the ante, check it out, but otherwise, I'd say stay far away. An unfortunate and pathetic farewell to the Burton/Schumacher series and this iteration of Batman. At least this series brought us the animated show.