Batman & Robin

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Batman & Robin

PG-13

1997

2h 10m

Action

Adventure

Fantasy

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This superhero adventure finds Batman (George Clooney) and his partner, Robin (Chris O'Donnell), attempting to the foil the sinister schemes of a deranged set of new villains, most notably the melancholy Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger), who wants to make Gotham into an arctic region, and the sultry Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman), a plant-loving femme fatale. As the Dynamic Duo contends with these bad guys, a third hero, Batgirl (Alicia Silverstone), joins the ranks of the city's crime-fighters.

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Critics Consensus

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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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

05/17/2019

3/5

An amiable, almost farcical Batman episode, with George in Nespresso mode.

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Jason Bailey

Flavorwire

06/18/2017

Schumacher is like a bad stepdad who thinks we'll love him if he just feeds us candy all day. (Yes, Burton is the daddy in this metaphor - the manic-depressive, annoyingly emo daddy.)

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Joe Morgenstern

Wall Street Journal

06/18/2014

Of all modern Batmans, George Clooney bears the closest physical resemblance to the comic-book hero, but there isn't much to say about his performance because there isn't much performance to discuss.

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Ian Thomas Malone

ianthomasmalone.com

Apr 23

Schumacher’s homoerotic toy commercial is a messy ride, but there’s so much joy to be had in this masterpiece of camp.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Nov 22

1/4

About as much fun as a 20-year stint in a Turkish prison.

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Trace Thurman

Horror Queers Podcast

12/12/2022

2.5/5

It's not good, but it's not the total disaster its legacy would suggest. As an ode to the Silver Age of the Caped Crusader, it gets a lot of things right, but the pacing grinds to a halt any time one of our heroes is on screen. Thank god for Uma Thurman.

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Bakercakes

05/26/2023

It pains me to write this, as I’ve been a Batman fan since I could first remember, but this movie is borderline unwatchable. Everything from the script, to the way it’s shot/edited, leaves one wondering what the Hell everybody involved with it was thinking, as it was being made.

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Benjamin W.

@Code70 Jun 7

Terrible. Some of it is so bad it’s good, but I would never watch it again if I didn’t have to. Joel Schumacher just went way too far with the colors and the colorful characters, the cringy dialogue is dialed up to 11, and the characterizations are some of the cringiest ever seen in superhero cinema. The story is hilariously awful and incoherent, the performances next-level awful, and this is just not the kinda Batman I enjoy at all. But what really makes this kinda irredeemable for me, and the kind of movie I can’t even appreciate in light of the modern soul-suckingly bland superhero movies of today, is that people even involved said making the movie felt more like an add for toys than actually making a film. Which means there’s no actual artistic vision here of value, terrible or not. It’s just awful, there’s no reason to try to paint it otherwise. Some movies just suck, and that’s the end of it.

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Leo M

@leomackie May 10

Joel Schumacher's take on a comical Batman results in one of the most embarrassing and hilariously unwatchable movies ever made.

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Andre T.

@andrestuckmannmoviereviews May 8

This movie is a joke because you laugh at loud on how awful and terrible it is and is the worst batman movie by far F

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Dam D.

@RT78795131 May 2

On shroom best movie ever. Period.

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Shea C

@SheaRants Apr 21

You've got to love how comicy this movie is. it has a very different side of batman compared to the other movies and i really like it

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Synopsis

This superhero adventure finds Batman (George Clooney) and his partner, Robin (Chris O'Donnell), attempting to the foil the sinister schemes of a deranged set of new villains, most notably the melancholy Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger), who wants to make Gotham into an arctic region, and the sultry Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman), a plant-loving femme fatale. As the Dynamic Duo contends with these bad guys, a third hero, Batgirl (Alicia Silverstone), joins the ranks of the city's crime-fighters.

Director: Joel Schumacher
Producer: Peter Macgregor-Scott
Screenwriter: Akiva Goldsman, Bob Kane
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: Warner Bros., PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Rating: PG-13 (Strong Stylized Action|Some Innuendo)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 20, 1997, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 31, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $107.3M
Runtime: 2h 10m
Sound Mix: Dolby SR, DTS, Dolby Stereo, Surround, SDDS, Dolby A, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)