Movie Review #20: Batman & Robin (1997)

I feel like I don't even need to review this movie. I don't need any other reason aside from the fact that this movie is so bad that I want to truly rip a film apart. Yeah it may sounds sadistic when I put it like that but this would be my first bad movie review/rant! And what better movie to bag on than Batman & Robin?

Batman & Robin is Batman and Robin. It really needs no explanation. I'm not even going to waste typing out the plot because I honestly don't think that there was a plot in this movie!

George Clooney plays Batman and his Batman is the worst of the worst. He spouts off cheesy dialogue that not even Daniel Day Lewis could make sound good! He couldn't even make "I'm Batman" sound convincing! Arnold Schwarzenegger's dialogue was only one-liners! If you played a drinking game to Batman & Robin and took a shot every time Arnold said either a one-liner or an awful joke, either your liver would fail or you would die from alcohol poisoning! I found Uma Thurman hilarious because as Poison Ivy she's a plant freak and I can just imagine that people like her are the founders of GreenPeace and PETA. I'm not saying she was good in the movie, but I just made that connection. Bane is also in this movie, but he looks more like a mentally handicapped Mexican wrestler. All he does is say, "BANE!!!!!!" or "BOMB!!!!!" Even though he's ridiculously stupid, he just might be the best actor in this movie because he never said more than one word a sentence and he never had to show his face!

The props were also complete cheese. The Batmobile and all of Batman's other vehicles looked like a bunch of stupid toys. There is one scene where Batman, Robin and Batgirl are riding in their vehicles down an ice covered street and it looked like a scene from a Disney on Ice performance! It was so fake, lame, cheesy and too clean! They couldn't even make the icicles seem realistic. There's a scene in which someone opens a car door and you see the icicles are swaying. Who said that that looked okay?!? How hard is it to make icicles stay in place?!?

Even though this movie is terrible, it's hysterical! Batman & Robin is the perfect example of a movie that's so wrong it's right. By right, I mean really funny. I use the term right VERY loosely. It's fun to watch this movie with your friends and just roast it and indulge in this ludicrous piece of cheese.

Final Report: Batman & Robin is one of the worst movies I've ever seen and perhaps one of the worst movies of all time. It's an overacted, over-the-top piece of cheese if there ever was one. But it's hysterically bad and so enjoyable that you don't hate yourself for watching it!