What's it all About? This is the fourth and final outing from the initial wave of Batman movies that came out (accept the first one) across the 1990s. A franchise killer to end all franchises! Ha! Right, the story... The villains are Mr Freeze (Arnie), Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman) and Bane (probably the famous WWF wrestler of that particular year). The Heroes are Batman (Cloon-tang), Robin (Chris O'Donnell) and *shudder* Batgirl (the girl from clueless and some Aerosmith videos). So those are the players, not many came out with their careers intact, a tough gig to say the least. Throughout the course of the film this lot occasionally bump into each other, when they do they fight and say some lines. The End.
Best bits? In terms of genuine best bits, there are none. However, there are serious laughs to be had here! Arnold's take on Mr Freeze is spectacularly hilarious, a machine gun of badly written 'one liners' continuously spouts from his mouth, I don't think he says a complete sentence once, why bother? One liners are quicker, meaning he can be back in his trailer chomping on a fat stoog and flexing his muscles in no time!
I guess, maybe, with a better script, Clooney might make an okay Bruce Wayne, but in this movie there's about as much depth to him as a puddle of warm piss.
Did it make you think thoughts? Yes. How could they misjudge what the public want in a Batman film so drastically? Batman Forever was a new direction from the Tim Burton films and clearly went for a more comic book/TV serial feel, but this takes it ludicrously too far! It's like it's been made by children. The scenes are lit like a middle school production, the action is terribly choreographed and consists mainly of people flying around on wires (before Crouching Tiger and The Matrix made it look good) which looks so bad you just have to laugh... A lot.
The whole thing plays out a lot like the old TV show from the 1960s, zero depth, pithy one liners, villain of the week type thing. So that got me me thinking... 'It's like this on purpose, this was their concept, surly?' No, it's just rubbish because nobody knew what the hell they were doing. This clip is hilarious, Batman credit card, my god!
Would you watch it again? I have a feeling my eyes will view this again at some point, maybe if I was doing an Arnie season or something.
Rating (out of 100%): One of the most publicised stinkers of all time, I give it 35% because I laughed a lot, which is always nice.
