Batman & Robin (1997)

All Critics (66) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (58) | DVD (12)

By now, the dispatching of various comic-book meanies is the least satisfying part of the deal, no matter how many disco scenes or gizmos are thrown onto the screen.

July 7, 2010 Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

Loud, uninspired, and interminable.

April 16, 2007 Full Review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

The villains, Arnold Schwarzenegger and especially Uma Thurman in this instance, remain the highlights here, as the rest of the gargantuan production lacks the dash and excitement that would have given the franchise a boost in its eighth year.

April 16, 2007 Full Review

Todd McCarthy

Variety

Top Critic

The fourth Bat-flick finds this juvenile franchise running on empty.

January 26, 2006 Full Review

Time Out

Top Critic

Campy costumes can't disguise the incoherent plot, confused performances and lame script that send this star vehicle spiralling downward.

November 15, 2002 Full Review

Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

[Schumacher's] storytelling is limp, and the characters lack energy.

November 6, 2002 Full Review

Jeff Strickler

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Top Critic

I've seen colonic X-rays more visually appealing than what Schumacher throws up on the screen.

October 4, 2012 Full Review

Matt Brunson

Creative Loafing

Among the worst wide-release films of the 1990s, offering virtually nothing in the way of positive compensation other than an excellent chance to mock it with a cadre of like-minded, drunk friends.

July 19, 2012 Full Review

Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

Fails to deliver anything of merit or worth at every turn.

July 3, 2012 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

Same bat-time, same bat-movie.

January 1, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Ed Grant

Common Sense Media

It has no heart, it's an empty piece of work that fails to deliver on anything other than very soft core fetishism.

July 16, 2010 Full Review

Film4

This franchise has gotten aggressively unsatisfying.

July 23, 2007 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

A high-rent jumble sale of smarty-pants pop-culture gags and expensive tchochtkes.

April 16, 2007 Full Review

TV Guide's Movie Guide

This fourth modern Batman film features perhaps the worst screenplay -- or at least the worst dialogue -- ever written.

October 27, 2005 Full Review | Comments (5)

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Schumacher's intention appears to have been to make something so awful, so corny, so campy, so preposterously bad that audiences would simply laugh at it. Sorry. Bad is bad.

October 17, 2005 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

July 5, 2005 Full Review

David Medsker

Bullz-Eye.com

I don't know anyone who'll admit to liking BATMAN AND ROBIN. Except me.

June 27, 2005 Full Review | Comments (31)

Luke Y. Thompson

LYTRules.com

It represents the things I really, really dislike about Hollywood and its overblown product.

April 9, 2005 Full Review

Robin Clifford

Reeling Reviews

Alfred posits, "For what is Batman if not an effort to master the chaos that sweeps our world? An attempt to control death itself." Okay, fine, but we get this and dick jokes?

January 29, 2005

Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews

Burton's Batman was capable of snapping criminal spine -- Schumacher's is a sissy lib who believes in redemption, if not the possibility of rehabilitation.

January 2, 2005 Full Review | Comments (3)

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Like most sequels, Batman has lost steam after three.

June 23, 2004 Full Review

Judith Egerton

Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

The title that managed to kill modern-day Batman movies.

August 26, 2003 Full Review

Dragan Antulov

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• 1. Batman/Bruce Wayne: Freeze, You're mad!
  – Submitted by Jonathan V (15 days ago)
• 1. Robin/Dick Grayson: I want a car! Chicks dig the car.
  2. Batman/Bruce Wayne: This is why Superman works alone.
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• 1. Poison Ivy/Dr. Pamela Isley: Enough monkey business, we've got work to do.
  2. Bane: Grr, monkey work.
  – Submitted by Joe N (2 months ago)
• 1. Batman/Bruce Wayne: I love you Alfred.
  2. Alfred Pennyworth: And I love you too.
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• 1. Mr. Freeze/Dr. Victor Fries: I hate when people talk during the movie.
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• 1. Mr. Freeze/Dr. Victor Fries: Let's kick some ice.
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