Batman & Robin 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.

Full Review | Original Score: D

Wonderful to look at, and has nothing authentic at its core.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Pointless, plodding plotting; asinine action; clueless, comatose characterization; and dumb dialogue.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Warner Brothers owns the Batman character; you would think they would have a vested interest in doing a good job of the films, but the films themselves prove that they don't -- and this film provides the most numbing, sickening, inane proof of all.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

I'm not going to beat around the bush here. This is a bad movie.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

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.

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A film that might be entertaining to look at if it were just a little more sparse and if the pace were cut down just a bit. But there were many scenes in which I had to ask myself what it was that I just saw.

Full Review | Original Score: low -1 out of -4..+4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/10

This franchise has gotten aggressively unsatisfying.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Loud, uninspired, and interminable.

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

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

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4

A mishmash of prolonged, confused action sequences, which are, admittedly, brilliantly staged but don't make much sense.

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It's as bad as you think

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

An example of the worst type of corporate moviemaking

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Nothing but a parade of obligatory one-liners and self-imposed cliches.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: D

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

Please, supervillains, you mutter quietly. Deliver us from the bland.

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