Batman & Robin is pretty much a live-action staging of The Super Friends. The villains take precedence over the heroes and over-the-top sets and costumes take precedence over the story. Schwarzenegger rates the marquee spot over Clooney because the inmates are running the Arkham Asylum at this point. Nicholson gained top billing over Keaton in Batman because he starred in Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, and Terms of Endearment which proves both his box office clout and acting chops. The less said about this franchise killer the better.
Freeze (Schwarzenegger) and Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman) from freezing Gotham City.
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In this embarrassingly bad PG-13-rated sequel, Batman (Clooney) and Robin (O'Donnell) try to keep their relationship together even as they must stop Mr. She appeared as a boss in Batman: The Animated Series, The Adventures Of Batman & Robin for the Super N.E.S., The Adventures Of Batman & Robin for the Sega C.D., Batman: Chaos In Gotham City, the videogame adaptation of the movie Batman & Robin, Batman Vengeance, and Batman: Dark Tomorrow. He just doesn't get it, always throwing out the Batmite with the bathwater. Luring them to the basement with the scent of her love-dust, Ivy seduced one of the pair, starting with Robin while Bane held off Batman.
Of course, this is the former set designer who would later take Phone Booth - based on a gangbusters Hitchcock-inspired screenplay that works so great as a thriller on paper because it keeps things claustrophobic and paranoid - and opens the film with a shot from outer space that telescopes in on earth to show audiences how busy, active, and sprawling our world is. Both parties split-up with Poison Ivy and Bane distracting Batman and Robin, as well as rescuing his wife while Freeze recovered his much-needed power diamonds from the police. Batman & Robin just ratchets up this unfortunate silly streak to the Nth degree. Color pops everywhere, over-acting rues the day, and all involved look ready to break into jazz-hands and a two-step.
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Then, Joel Schumacher comes aboard the series with 1995's Batman Forever and turns the proceedings into a light romp that's not unlike a Bollywood musical. The Dark Knight was dark, edgy, and a pop culture phenomenon again with 1989's Batman and its 1992 sequel. Throwing Batgirl and two villains sillier than Caesar Romero's Joker into the mix-up, the camptastic Batman & Robin finishes off a once-invigorating franchise brought to its knees by director Joel Schumacher's tonal about-face called Batman Forever.