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Batman & Robin (1997)

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Average Rating: 3.5/10
Reviews Counted: 63
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 55

Joel Schumacher's tongue-in-cheek attitude hits an unbearable limit in Batman & Robin resulting in a frantic and mindless movie that's too jokey to care much for.

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Average Rating: 4.1/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 13

Joel Schumacher's tongue-in-cheek attitude hits an unbearable limit in Batman & Robin resulting in a frantic and mindless movie that's too jokey to care much for.

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Average Rating: 2.6/5
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Movie Info

Batman & Robin try to keep their relationship together even as they must stop Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from freezing Gotham City.

Oct 21, 1997

Warner Home Video

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All Critics (63) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (57) | 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 Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
Entertainment Weekly
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Loud, uninspired, and interminable.

April 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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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 Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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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 Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
Globe and Mail
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[Schumacher's] storytelling is limp, and the characters lack energy.

November 6, 2002 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | Comment
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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George Clooney is the big zero of the film, and should go down in history as the George Lazenby of the series.

July 24, 2001 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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Same bat-time, same bat-movie.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
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 Source: Film4 | Comment

The movie begins to sink under its own weight during the opening titles and never recovers. (Blu-ray Anthology)

March 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

This franchise has gotten aggressively unsatisfying.

July 23, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

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

April 16, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

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

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

We can finally look back on these films and give them their due without undue feelings of frustration getting too much in the way...

December 22, 2005 Full Review Source: Now Playing Magazine | Comment

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

October 27, 2005 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comments (2)
Combustible Celluloid

Joel Schumacher, taking over for Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, made things much worse by... delivering expensive messes.

October 18, 2005 Full Review Source: Now Playing Magazine | Comment

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 Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

July 5, 2005 Full Review Source: Bullz-Eye.com | Comment
Bullz-Eye.com

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

June 27, 2005 Full Review Source: LYTRules.com | Comments (17)

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

April 9, 2005 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | Comment
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 Comment

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 Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Comments (3)
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Like most sequels, Batman has lost steam after three.

June 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Batman & Robin

You know, originally, I had decided that this was a "so bad it's good" kind of movie. I mean, from the terrible acting, to the horrible script, to the disgustingly awful costumes, this film made me laugh. Hard. But there was one factor in this movie that was so unforgivable, so offensive and so downright awful I can't

October 23, 2011
Marc L.
Marc Lewis

Super Reviewer

tried to have everything that was expected of a batman movie, failed, very miserably, a very low point in Schwarzenegger's career, I'm glad Christopher Nolan is doing the franchise a world of good now.

October 29, 2011
scottgreen96
Scott Green

Super Reviewer

    1. Mr. Freeze/Dr. Victor Fries: Freeze in Hell, Batman!
    – Submitted by Chris W (28 days ago)
    1. Mr. Freeze/Dr. Victor Fries: It's time to kick some ICE!
    – Submitted by Eric T (44 days ago)
    1. Bane: BANE!
    – Submitted by Javis C (2 months ago)
    1. Mr. Freeze/Dr. Victor Fries: I hate people talking while a movie.
    – Submitted by Javis C (2 months ago)
    1. Batman/Bruce Wayne: You break it. You buy it.
    – Submitted by Javis C (2 months ago)

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