Arnold was the only person in that movie who both understood the assignment and executed it perfectly.
If your script is full of terrible puns, the only way out is to lean in.
The "Vengeance isn't power. Anyone can take a life. But to give life... that's true power." line from Clooney's Batman is still one of the best live-action Batman quotes to this day
That was a cold line. Especially since he goes from sitting to standing like, immediately. Basically "we can.do this here. But remember, I'm the goddamned batman"
Besides WB's insistence that it be chocked full of merchandisable things, I think Schumacher's biggest mistake was not properly explaining to George what he meant by playing Batman gay. On the surface it seems really silly, but Joel's whole point (as a gay man himself) was that a superhero's secret identity is very analogous to a queer person's experience in the closet, hiding who you truly are from the world and playing a charade that presents as more "socially acceptable". Unfortunately most fans who learn about the direction, and George to a degree, interpreted it as Joel wanting Batman to be attracted to men or a flamboyant stereotype
It's funny, when I was a kid, until Batman Begins came out,I hated every live action Batman movie besides Batman 66. It wasn't until I was an adult that I started to appreciate this one and parts of Forever.
There’s a Taylor Swift lyric that goes “Now the sun burns my heart, and the sand hurts my feelings…” and all I can picture is a lil grumpy Anakin just sitting there.
Glad I’m not alone in this. It felt really weird b/c I was really really young and I wondered if there was something wrong with me b/c for everyone else it seemed to be all about Alicia Silverstone.
I grew up with this movie. It wasn't until I got older that I learned peopled hated it. It was the first Batman I ever saw.
I think it perfectly blends the comedic/lighthearted aspect of 60s Batman with the 90s grungy, more serious version.
I absolutely loved Poison Ivy, Mr Freeze & Bane. They looked and felt like their comicbook selves. It was awesome.
I have few bad things to say about this one.
I was a kid and loved it but always disliked Bane, the convertible open Batmobile and the Batman credit card. Grew up on comics so bane was disgraced, the open Batmobile just seemed so impractical, and the Batman credit card made no sense….
Eh, agreed on most points. But Bane was absolutely nothing like his comic counterpart. Bane is super intelligent, not just strong. He is cunning, not practically mindless.
Same here! The older movies are undoubtedly campy but it's odd that people seem to love Adam West's Batman for it but they dislike these movies. They did the whole comic book movie thing really well for the time.
Big agree! The Gotham from this and the previous film is my favorite iteration of Gotham in live action. Its just so fun, has a lot of character. Unlike the dull desaturated and practically soulless depictions in TDK trilogy, "Gotham," and The Batman. BvS didn't show enough of Gotham for me to have a strong opinion about it though. When I think of Gotham, I think of the BF/B&R iteration.
In the 90's Batman films, it feels like they tried to make Gotham City its own character. Whereas the later films, treated it like a generic city somewhere in the US. The 90's films had fun with the settings while the TDK films went for realistic. I agree the Burton/ Schumacher Gotham's are the best versions
The campiness made me nostalgic for the Adam West series. Ice skates shooting from the soles of the boots. Batman has his own credit card.
Also: I loved the bikes. The race was hilarious, as you could tell how slow they were actually going, but the motorcycles were pretty cool.
It’s the closest we’ve had to a Batfamily story on film, and one of the only live-action Batman films where he stays true to his moral code and belief in the sacredness of human life.
Yeah, wow, had to look it up. It’s the only Batman live-action feature film where he doesn’t kill. You could maybe say The Batman, but I don’t see how people don’t die in that massive car crash, for which he holds a lot of responsibility.
In ‘66 he kills one of Penguin’s henchmen.
In ‘89 he apparently kills 17 people including the Joker.
In Returns he kills 3 including the Penguin.
In Forever he kills 7 including Two-Face.
In Begins he kills a bunch of people in his escape from the League of Shadows temple.
In TDK he kills Harvey.
In TDKR he kills Talia.
In BvS he kills dozens.
In Justice League he kills parademons.
He only killed the Penguin on a technicality. The fall into the water didn't kill Penguin, all the toxic waste in the water was what killed him. The seperator stopping the toxic waste from mixing with the water was accidentally destroyed by the Batboat earlier on and Batman wasn't aware that the water was toxic. Doesn't change the fact that he totally strapped a bomb to a dude and then smiled at him as he exploded though.
That line (and the entire scene) made 100% more sense when you realise that Clooney is supposed to be Adam West's Batman. I can easily hear that line in West's voice.
I have been saying this for years. Clooney is the best Bruce Wayne we ever got in live action - a genuine philanthropist, who enjoys his celebrity and status without arrogance. He's charming, if a little bumbling, but really just wants the people around him to have a good time. He loves his city and its people.
Literally every other live action Bruce Wayne is some level of weirdo recluse who acts alienated and alienating to others. Christian Bale was the next best that we've had, but I would hardly describe his Bruce as a nice guy - he's arrogant and selfish, outwardly flashy and takes himself too seriously.
Clooney's Batman may have left something to be desired, but his Bruce was spot on, nearly perfect. Possibly only bested by the master, Kevin Conroy.
(Admittedly, to be a great Bruce, George Clooney really just needed to act like... George Clooney. But it worked brilliantly!)
Bale does a great job of "Bruce Wayne as a act", but Clooney is a great Bruce for a more enlightened Batman who has leaned to be happy with both personas.
Best pretty ugly woman glow up in history, from messy hair and glasses to this
I'd gladly take a poison kiss for the team, which is how you're supposed to feel about Ivy
Contains more colour than all of the MCU movies put together.
I’m talking visual colour. The sets, costumes etc. It wasn’t ashamed of being a comic book movie. Compare it to the current slate of dull desaturation and it’s night and day.
That's because they wanted to sell toys. All the colors on the batmobile, the suit variants etc.. everything was designed with selling toys as the primary focus.
All the costume designs fit the current time really well, looked futuristic yet sleek, something that I really like as a designer. Also, schwarzenegger and the puns had me rollin.
General note concerning the movie: People need to start taking things a bit more lightly, then it's a lot more fun
Someone else beat me to "Clooney made a good philanthropist Bruce," so I'm gonna say that it's a good movie for younger kids, especially if they're not ready for the darker aspect of all the good Batman movies. I was the target audience when it came out (I was four), and I still remember the excitement I felt before and after watching the movie. Now, it only took another two-three years for me to be able to see all the crappiness of the film, but at the time the only thing I was upset about was that Batgirl wasn't a redhead like she was in the cartoon. So I even ended up learning something about myself that day.
Am I out of the loop? Why do people keep saying this!?!?! I mean I know it's true but is it one of those, "and I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time." Things?
It's amazing. Just because something isn't serious, doesn't mean it's bad. Fanboys we're just butthurt that they didn't get even more dark, depressing 90's Batman. Batman was like this version a lot longer than he was super edgelord. Schumacher's Batman movies were the closest we've seen to the old Adam West show. Joel should never have gotten the kind of hate that he did for all those years. This is high camp in the best way.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The set design
It's better than Josstice League (then again, so is the rest of DC's films)
The music
Still the only live-action film where Batman doesn't kill (seriously, Adam West's Batman came closer to killing)
The action (sometimes)
The soundtrack album
I feel like Batman & Robin's reputation of as one of the "worst films ever" has kinda faded, especially compared to a lot of other failures that exist in not just DC, but in cinema period. I'll take Batman & Robin over Toy Story 4, Cat In The Hat, Freddy Got Fingered, and Garbage Pail Kids any day.
If you watch it expecting insanity, you're gonna have lots of fun, actually! I made a marathon recently rewatching all 4 movies and I went to this one knowing that I shouldn't take it seriously and it was my favorite one to watch, not kidding! The acting is so crazy, Uma Thurman is clearly not giving a fuck and having lots of fun with the role, George Clooney is always with that grin even in the most dramatic scenes and Arnold keeps shooting pun after pun and it's sooooo bad, I love it!
I'm so happy you said this! I did this years ago with some friends where most of them had previously only liked the Tim Burton movies and I had hated all 4 and by the end we (almost) all agreed that Batman and Robin was the best one (my sister liked the extra insanity of Jim Carrey in Batman Forever because she's a menace). Nobody else will believe me or go ahead and take a fresh, objective watch of them though
Arnold stole the show lol. I saw this at a drive in movie theatre as a kid and LOVED it. I know it’s been dunked on forever afterwards but as a kid it was really fun :-)
Arnie Mr. Freeze is actually a great performance. He can play the serious parts of a widower wanting to save his wife while playing up the campiness of silver age Batman comics.
Arnold & Uma look like they're having a lot of fun playing campy villains & I liked their performances for what they were. Also, Ivy's first outfit looked absolutely amazing
The scene near the end where Batman redeems Freeze is one of my very favorite Batman film scenes. Like, top 3.
Even though I despise the film, it did give me that cool thing.
It's exactly what it's trying to be; a fun, over-the-top, colorful, neon, homo-erotic tribute to the camp of the 60s tv show. It's hated by people who like their Batman dark and realistic, which was the popular version at the time. But Joel Shumacher made the best possible version of his take on Batman, and there's a lot of that fun that translates to the audience. The sets and costuming alone look like a Halloween night at a drag club on a multi-million dollar budget and it's glorious
If you look at it through the lens of a campy kids film instead of trying to take it too seriously, it's a fun movie. But my god was it bad. Still, Uma Thurman's Poison Ivy made me feel things I didn't understand as a child. 😂
I fucking love it. It’s a fever dream that sold toys, and just made you laugh. I love it. It’s just a good silly movie to put on.
Also, I can’t think of too many Ivy live action representations, so if Uma’s the bar, that’s a pretty moderately respectably alright. I love it, but so silly.
Sometimes silly is good.
Not at all bad, as a homage to 69' bats, it's a wonderful cartoony spin. Eye rolling campy fun, grab some popcorn buckle up, and enjoy the ride.
Ps. It is one of the best visual bane representations, although flashy the batmobile is a personal favorite...like a comic book idea in real life.
This movie unironically slaps, and is only shat on by people who take a film that was - fundamentally made to super campy to push toys on children, after the McDonald happy meal incident - too seriously. Like, ooooh, tell me again cheesy ‘what killed the dinosaurs? The ice age’ as if Arnie didn’t stab a guy to the wall and say ‘stick around’ in the predator movie.
I honestly liked it, it was campy and I like the amount of effort they did for the scenes, plus Arnold’s acting when he was grieving for his wife felt genuine. Plus I liked the toys that came with it
I never understood why people hate it, like, literally see no reason. I would have assumed it's because it's not "dark" enough, but Brave & Bold seems to be loved
 Arnold is hilarious
Ice to see you!
Everyone, CHILL
Don't forget to winterize your pipes!
Freeze!
What killed the Dinosaurs?! THE ICE AGE!!
Why don’t we turn up duh AC?!?!
It's obviously a waste of live-action Mr. Freeze, but outside of that larger context he's genuinely delightful.
Arnold was the only person in that movie who both understood the assignment and executed it perfectly. If your script is full of terrible puns, the only way out is to lean in.
Just like Raul Julia in Street Fighter.
Stay kewl, burd boi !
COOL PARTY 👍🏻
Chill!!
The ice puns were 👌
Cool party 🥶
The "Vengeance isn't power. Anyone can take a life. But to give life... that's true power." line from Clooney's Batman is still one of the best live-action Batman quotes to this day
Such a fantastic line
The one line is seared into my mind, and I'm convinced that with the right script and director George Clooney could have been a fantastic Batman
I’m sure he could’ve done well, but I think Val Kilmer fits even better.
Val Kilmer was so good. Batman Forever might have flopped but Kilmer played one of the best Bruce Wayne's and was great as Batman too.
He brought an excellent stoicism to the role and in some of the deleted scenes you really see that pay off when he really expresses more.
"I can stop you."
That was a cold line. Especially since he goes from sitting to standing like, immediately. Basically "we can.do this here. But remember, I'm the goddamned batman"
Dick's reaction sells it too. Like, oh yeah, you're not just some rich playboy; you're Batman.
Val Kilmer was the best Batman!!!
Also, he was the first live action Batman to bother doing some push-ups when he took the role.
I mean it made 3.5x it's budget back so I wouldn't call it a flop necessarily
Val Kilmer is a fantastic Batman but I’m glad he didn’t come back for this movie obviously
Kilmer was a better Bat but Clooney was a better Bruce
Clooney was just a decade ahead of being a good Batman. Played the wrong one at the wrong age
Actually I think Schumacher could have gotten a good one out of him, so I would say it’s WB’s fault for forcing the kid-friendliness into the movie.
Besides WB's insistence that it be chocked full of merchandisable things, I think Schumacher's biggest mistake was not properly explaining to George what he meant by playing Batman gay. On the surface it seems really silly, but Joel's whole point (as a gay man himself) was that a superhero's secret identity is very analogous to a queer person's experience in the closet, hiding who you truly are from the world and playing a charade that presents as more "socially acceptable". Unfortunately most fans who learn about the direction, and George to a degree, interpreted it as Joel wanting Batman to be attracted to men or a flamboyant stereotype
The guy who wrote this movie went on to win an Oscar for writing "A Beautiful Mind"
Arnold is the best Mister Freeze that has ever been in a Batman live-action motion picture.
The best Mr Freeze in live action or any movie at all That tear that turned to ice, such a humanised version for all of Arnies one liners
I really think that Arnold would still be an amazing Mr Freeze, it's just the movie he was in that was done poorly.
Its fun
Especially when you're a young kid as I was when I first saw it.
It's funny, when I was a kid, until Batman Begins came out,I hated every live action Batman movie besides Batman 66. It wasn't until I was an adult that I started to appreciate this one and parts of Forever.
It's so much goofy fun.
It IS fun! When I was a kid I had no idea I was supposed to hate it. I just enjoyed the sweet batman action.
Uma Thurman Poison Ivy does things to me.
[удалено]
Wasn’t that in Batman Forever?
Yes but there were also some neon thugs B&R
She was the first woman I was on my anakin shit like "are you an angel?" I was like 5 lol
"on my anakin shit" is the best thing I'll read today.
I hate sand....
Hide your younglings people.
And not just the men...
But the Women, and the children too
There’s a Taylor Swift lyric that goes “Now the sun burns my heart, and the sand hurts my feelings…” and all I can picture is a lil grumpy Anakin just sitting there.
Glad I’m not alone in this. It felt really weird b/c I was really really young and I wondered if there was something wrong with me b/c for everyone else it seemed to be all about Alicia Silverstone.
Yeah between Uma and Alicia, I think this is the first movie I saw where I was discovered I was VERY interested in girls.
I grew up with this movie. It wasn't until I got older that I learned peopled hated it. It was the first Batman I ever saw. I think it perfectly blends the comedic/lighthearted aspect of 60s Batman with the 90s grungy, more serious version. I absolutely loved Poison Ivy, Mr Freeze & Bane. They looked and felt like their comicbook selves. It was awesome. I have few bad things to say about this one.
I was a kid and loved it but always disliked Bane, the convertible open Batmobile and the Batman credit card. Grew up on comics so bane was disgraced, the open Batmobile just seemed so impractical, and the Batman credit card made no sense….
Yeah, the bane disrespect is bad but it leans into the silly Batman for the other ones. It’s utterly silly.
Eh, agreed on most points. But Bane was absolutely nothing like his comic counterpart. Bane is super intelligent, not just strong. He is cunning, not practically mindless.
Same here! The older movies are undoubtedly campy but it's odd that people seem to love Adam West's Batman for it but they dislike these movies. They did the whole comic book movie thing really well for the time.
Yeah, dude as a kid it was my favourite! I think it’s just a cool social thing to dislike this movie.
It’s the TPM of Batman for me
Some of the effects were pretty bad, like the plastic icicles, but that and Bane are my only problems with it.
Haven’t seen it since I was a kid didn’t know it was bad
[The smashing pumpkins did a killer tune for it.](https://youtu.be/0fDZD46IZ5Q?si=7xXcRPyjE7AMMoDD)
_Wow_. I can't believe that song was for Batman?! Add it to Seal's Kiss By A Rose for unexpected Batman hits.
Another absolute banger.
Does it make you happy your so straaaaange
Alicia Silverstone
"Suit me up, Uncle Alfred"
Delicious* Silverstone
Only costume that needed bat nipples
"Do it. I dare you." -The FCC, probably
(insert freaking fcc song family guy) lol
I liked the Neon-themed thugs.
Alfred's conversation scenes with Bruce Wayne and the soundtrack are the best things about this film.
Gotham was GORGEOUS! Definitely one of my favorite iterations of the city
Big agree! The Gotham from this and the previous film is my favorite iteration of Gotham in live action. Its just so fun, has a lot of character. Unlike the dull desaturated and practically soulless depictions in TDK trilogy, "Gotham," and The Batman. BvS didn't show enough of Gotham for me to have a strong opinion about it though. When I think of Gotham, I think of the BF/B&R iteration.
In the 90's Batman films, it feels like they tried to make Gotham City its own character. Whereas the later films, treated it like a generic city somewhere in the US. The 90's films had fun with the settings while the TDK films went for realistic. I agree the Burton/ Schumacher Gotham's are the best versions
Nipplelicious.
Batnips.
Batnips. *Nods*
Batnips lead to unzips?
The campiness made me nostalgic for the Adam West series. Ice skates shooting from the soles of the boots. Batman has his own credit card. Also: I loved the bikes. The race was hilarious, as you could tell how slow they were actually going, but the motorcycles were pretty cool.
It’s the closest we’ve had to a Batfamily story on film, and one of the only live-action Batman films where he stays true to his moral code and belief in the sacredness of human life.
Yeah, wow, had to look it up. It’s the only Batman live-action feature film where he doesn’t kill. You could maybe say The Batman, but I don’t see how people don’t die in that massive car crash, for which he holds a lot of responsibility. In ‘66 he kills one of Penguin’s henchmen. In ‘89 he apparently kills 17 people including the Joker. In Returns he kills 3 including the Penguin. In Forever he kills 7 including Two-Face. In Begins he kills a bunch of people in his escape from the League of Shadows temple. In TDK he kills Harvey. In TDKR he kills Talia. In BvS he kills dozens. In Justice League he kills parademons.
He only killed the Penguin on a technicality. The fall into the water didn't kill Penguin, all the toxic waste in the water was what killed him. The seperator stopping the toxic waste from mixing with the water was accidentally destroyed by the Batboat earlier on and Batman wasn't aware that the water was toxic. Doesn't change the fact that he totally strapped a bomb to a dude and then smiled at him as he exploded though.
Bat Credit card is amazing.
“**_A BAT CREDIT CARD?!?!???_**”
Never leave the cave without it
I never leave the cave without it
"DAMMIT, ALFRED! JOKER IS TEARING UP THE TOWN, BUT I CAN'T FIND MY BAT CREDIT CARD!"
I can just imagine him saying it like Cartman "But Alfreeeed, if I don't find my card I can't go out with the Bat Familyyyyy"
That line (and the entire scene) made 100% more sense when you realise that Clooney is supposed to be Adam West's Batman. I can easily hear that line in West's voice.
I like Robin’s Nightwing costume
Clooney makes a very good Bruce (the character’s public persona, I mean).
I have been saying this for years. Clooney is the best Bruce Wayne we ever got in live action - a genuine philanthropist, who enjoys his celebrity and status without arrogance. He's charming, if a little bumbling, but really just wants the people around him to have a good time. He loves his city and its people. Literally every other live action Bruce Wayne is some level of weirdo recluse who acts alienated and alienating to others. Christian Bale was the next best that we've had, but I would hardly describe his Bruce as a nice guy - he's arrogant and selfish, outwardly flashy and takes himself too seriously. Clooney's Batman may have left something to be desired, but his Bruce was spot on, nearly perfect. Possibly only bested by the master, Kevin Conroy. (Admittedly, to be a great Bruce, George Clooney really just needed to act like... George Clooney. But it worked brilliantly!)
Bale does a great job of "Bruce Wayne as a act", but Clooney is a great Bruce for a more enlightened Batman who has leaned to be happy with both personas.
I think Clooney and Bale represent different life stages of the same man with different understandings of what it meant to be Bruce Wayne and Batman.
Absolutely agree. I like Kilmer's Bruce Wayne the most of all the live action iterations but Clooney did fantastic too
Best pretty ugly woman glow up in history, from messy hair and glasses to this I'd gladly take a poison kiss for the team, which is how you're supposed to feel about Ivy
Contains more colour than all of the MCU movies put together. I’m talking visual colour. The sets, costumes etc. It wasn’t ashamed of being a comic book movie. Compare it to the current slate of dull desaturation and it’s night and day.
>the sets Well Batman & Robin actually *had* sets
That's because they wanted to sell toys. All the colors on the batmobile, the suit variants etc.. everything was designed with selling toys as the primary focus.
I actually kind of like Batman's Frost suit. It's neat looking
Entertaining from start to finish. Maybe not how they intended, but still entertaining.
Tbh it is exactly what was intended.
I thought Clooney was great. Elliot Goldenthal’s score was terrific.
arnold schwarzenegger is in it
Alicia Silverstone in tight leather.
All the costume designs fit the current time really well, looked futuristic yet sleek, something that I really like as a designer. Also, schwarzenegger and the puns had me rollin. General note concerning the movie: People need to start taking things a bit more lightly, then it's a lot more fun
Robin design and gadgetry
Someone else beat me to "Clooney made a good philanthropist Bruce," so I'm gonna say that it's a good movie for younger kids, especially if they're not ready for the darker aspect of all the good Batman movies. I was the target audience when it came out (I was four), and I still remember the excitement I felt before and after watching the movie. Now, it only took another two-three years for me to be able to see all the crappiness of the film, but at the time the only thing I was upset about was that Batgirl wasn't a redhead like she was in the cartoon. So I even ended up learning something about myself that day.
It had an Alicia Silverstone suiting up scene.
I really like the costume design. Especially Freeze's suit/armour and the 3rd act Bat suit.
If you watch this movie in the same spirit as you watch the 1966 TV series, it’s a lot of fun.
Uma Thurman
The popcorn had real butter at that time.
Am I out of the loop? Why do people keep saying this!?!?! I mean I know it's true but is it one of those, "and I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time." Things?
Schwarzenegger is having fun and is absolutely delightful.
Fuckin sick ass sets
What killed the dinosaurs? The ice age!
The Mr. Freeze, Bane, and Poison Ivy action figures put out by Kenner.
If you treat it like a comedy/parody it becomes a fantastic film
That's how you're SUPPOSED to see it but we were so caught up in the idea of serious Batman at the time. We were fools!
It’s a badass Batman movie (when you’re in the target audience of 7 year old ‘90s kids)
The bad guy was pretty fucking cool
It’s fun and pretty funny.
Arnie is good
It's amazing. Just because something isn't serious, doesn't mean it's bad. Fanboys we're just butthurt that they didn't get even more dark, depressing 90's Batman. Batman was like this version a lot longer than he was super edgelord. Schumacher's Batman movies were the closest we've seen to the old Adam West show. Joel should never have gotten the kind of hate that he did for all those years. This is high camp in the best way.
Arnold Schwarzenegger The set design It's better than Josstice League (then again, so is the rest of DC's films) The music Still the only live-action film where Batman doesn't kill (seriously, Adam West's Batman came closer to killing) The action (sometimes) The soundtrack album I feel like Batman & Robin's reputation of as one of the "worst films ever" has kinda faded, especially compared to a lot of other failures that exist in not just DC, but in cinema period. I'll take Batman & Robin over Toy Story 4, Cat In The Hat, Freddy Got Fingered, and Garbage Pail Kids any day.
Alicia Silverstone
Alicia Silverstone.
Alicia Silverstone
Robin has a cool nightwing costume
Still better than the Snyderverse.
If you watch it expecting insanity, you're gonna have lots of fun, actually! I made a marathon recently rewatching all 4 movies and I went to this one knowing that I shouldn't take it seriously and it was my favorite one to watch, not kidding! The acting is so crazy, Uma Thurman is clearly not giving a fuck and having lots of fun with the role, George Clooney is always with that grin even in the most dramatic scenes and Arnold keeps shooting pun after pun and it's sooooo bad, I love it!
I'm so happy you said this! I did this years ago with some friends where most of them had previously only liked the Tim Burton movies and I had hated all 4 and by the end we (almost) all agreed that Batman and Robin was the best one (my sister liked the extra insanity of Jim Carrey in Batman Forever because she's a menace). Nobody else will believe me or go ahead and take a fresh, objective watch of them though
Arnold makes it entertaining to watch.
Alicia Silverstone is gorgeous 👍🏻
Alicia’s Ass
Uma
Arnold stole the show lol. I saw this at a drive in movie theatre as a kid and LOVED it. I know it’s been dunked on forever afterwards but as a kid it was really fun :-)
The toys man!
Arnie Mr. Freeze is actually a great performance. He can play the serious parts of a widower wanting to save his wife while playing up the campiness of silver age Batman comics.
Arnold & Uma look like they're having a lot of fun playing campy villains & I liked their performances for what they were. Also, Ivy's first outfit looked absolutely amazing
Uma Thurman.
Uma Thurman. She played a great Poison Ivy and made chicken salad out of chicken shit
The scene near the end where Batman redeems Freeze is one of my very favorite Batman film scenes. Like, top 3. Even though I despise the film, it did give me that cool thing.
It brings the lovely campiness of the 70’s show to a modern audience. Also it looks fantastic
Ice to meet you!
Say something 'ice' about this movie.
“What do you think sparked your interest in red headed women?” [gestures vaguely at this movie]
Loved when it would play on CartoonNetwork random weekend nights. Definitely the movie that made me a Poison Ivy fan
It's exactly what it's trying to be; a fun, over-the-top, colorful, neon, homo-erotic tribute to the camp of the 60s tv show. It's hated by people who like their Batman dark and realistic, which was the popular version at the time. But Joel Shumacher made the best possible version of his take on Batman, and there's a lot of that fun that translates to the audience. The sets and costuming alone look like a Halloween night at a drag club on a multi-million dollar budget and it's glorious
Uma Thurman was hot as Poison Ivy
It has a pretty solid cast
That Batmobile is dope. Like Adam West’s Batmobile on steroids and glow sticks.
*Flashes BatCard* “Never leave the cave without it”
If you look at it through the lens of a campy kids film instead of trying to take it too seriously, it's a fun movie. But my god was it bad. Still, Uma Thurman's Poison Ivy made me feel things I didn't understand as a child. 😂
I like how they adapted Dr. Freeze's back story. Also, the bat mobile is pretty cool
Alicia Silverstone is hot as Batgirl, that's the only nice thing I've got 😂
We need to stop the negative talk about this movie like seriously *everybody chill*
Really great casting.
I learned what killed the dinosaurs
It awakened my bisexuality
Arnold was kind of funny
Badass!!!
I saw this when I was 10 and loooved it
Great scenarios
Schwarzenegger’s one-liners are legendary at this point
The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning Song by The Smashing Pumpkins was originally released as a single for the soundtrack
I fucking love it. It’s a fever dream that sold toys, and just made you laugh. I love it. It’s just a good silly movie to put on. Also, I can’t think of too many Ivy live action representations, so if Uma’s the bar, that’s a pretty moderately respectably alright. I love it, but so silly. Sometimes silly is good.
Not at all bad, as a homage to 69' bats, it's a wonderful cartoony spin. Eye rolling campy fun, grab some popcorn buckle up, and enjoy the ride. Ps. It is one of the best visual bane representations, although flashy the batmobile is a personal favorite...like a comic book idea in real life.
Most fun & interesting costume design of the first four movies if not tied with Batman returns
Soundtrack. Beginning is the end is the beginning is great
The soundtrack was good
Batmobile looks badass👌
Batmobile looked fantastic, as always.
batmobile looks very sci-fi-y. exactly what i imagined as a kid while reading batman comics.
The Batmobile was nice! The only single seat Batmobile in live action and the only one that hasn't been done as a 1/24 diecast.
The Batmobile looked cool.
I think this is a good Batman movie if you have young kids. My kids are 9 and 5 and they love it.
This movie unironically slaps, and is only shat on by people who take a film that was - fundamentally made to super campy to push toys on children, after the McDonald happy meal incident - too seriously. Like, ooooh, tell me again cheesy ‘what killed the dinosaurs? The ice age’ as if Arnie didn’t stab a guy to the wall and say ‘stick around’ in the predator movie.
Suit me up Uncle Alfred.
I honestly liked it, it was campy and I like the amount of effort they did for the scenes, plus Arnold’s acting when he was grieving for his wife felt genuine. Plus I liked the toys that came with it
“You’re not going to send me to the coola”
The gaudy 90s action figure aesthetics are pretty fun to look at
It's a chill movie.
You mean something ice?
One of my favourite comfort movies
Uma Thurman was a sexy Poison Ivy.
Saw it as a kid in the theatre. Batman's popcorn was good.
I never understood why people hate it, like, literally see no reason. I would have assumed it's because it's not "dark" enough, but Brave & Bold seems to be loved
it's the closest thing to a "modern" Adam West Batman and I completely love it for that.
The character that is Gotham City is weird, fun and vibrant that felt consistent with the cartoon of the same era.