Batman & Robin: Critic Reviews

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.

Some nifty celestial surfing and a good finale compensate for a dead midsection.

If you like 'em busy, this sequel is for you.

Loud, uninspired, and interminable.

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

Apart from its eye-appeal, though, Batman & Robin is a virtually joyless exercise, a lumbering saga of a city under assault on two fronts.

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.

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

Same bat-time, same bat-movie.

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

This franchise has gotten aggressively unsatisfying.

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

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

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

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.

Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

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

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

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?

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.

Like most sequels, Batman has lost steam after three.

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

Devoid of a point of view, a narrative structure, intelligent dialogue and three-dimensional (or even two-dimensional) characters, the latest Batman movie is much more like a violence-oriented video game than a form of dramatic art.

By most accounts, the worst of the series - yet I like it the best. Probably because my expectations were so low to begin with. Clooney breathes some life back into the role.

It is great film to look at. The movie in-jokes are quite good too.