ago already 26 years that ‘Batman and Robin’ (‘Batman & Robin’) came to theaters. Unanimously considered one of the worst films of all time, during all these years you will have tired of hearing all the negative things about the film directed by Joel Schumacherhis second adventure in the saga after the entertaining ‘Batman Forever’, a disaster of such caliber that Warner had no choice but to end the franchise and for which the director himself apologized years later.
For this reason, surely many have preferred to ignore viewing it or do not really remember it anymore, assuming that it is so horrible that it is not worth checking. with the 26th anniversary recent and ‘The Flash’ in theaters, with the return of several versions of Batmanwe have proposed to recover it.
Here you will find 21 Reasons You Need To Rewatch ‘Batman & Robin’ (on HBO Max) and that make it the best heir to the 60s series with Adam West (okay, it’s also the only film in the saga that bets on absurd humor). We leave you with them.
Joel Schumacher’s obsession with sexualizing characters
I think the video is already eloquent enough to go into details. Of course, Schumacher is not disgusted by anything and relapses into its use when Alice Silverstone she becomes Batgirl. scenes like that unthinkable in any current superhero movie.
Mr. Freeze’s one-liners
There is something that stands out above anything else in the film: the one-liners of Mr. Freeze that he gives life to. arnold schwarzenegger. All of them related to the cold in one way or another and that can be desperate individually.
However, seeing them so often shows that there is something there on which a great comedy could have been built along the lines of the series starring Adam West. In fact, she is the best heir of that one, although also the only one.
The ridiculous fall of Mr. Freeze
Do we really have to take Schwarzenegger’s way of falling into the void seriously? It is true that the important thing in his case are the one-liners (and the 25 million dollars he collected), but this is too ridiculous. If you are jumping backwards!
Bane, a pitiful monster
We all prefer to remember the Bane of Tom Hardy, but the character already appeared here. A hypermuscled monster that was still a luxury lackey. Or at least that was the idea. The reality is the above…
Poison Ivy rounds out the trio of over-the-top villains
I’m sure that was the excuse Uma Thurman to say that he could do no better with the material at hand.
Robin’s Magic Bike
Sometimes it’s easy to miss little details that make you think. to what extent all the most absurd touch of the film is on purpose. Here is a good proof of it, because there is no other way to believe that Robin’s entrance to the bravas with her motorcycle leaves the Batman logo behind…
cowabunga
Both Batman and Robin practice air surfing, taking further the fact that in the 1960s series the dark knight competed with Joker in this practice. However, what is not important is a detail of the extended version of that scene in which a Robin gives him for shouting a phrase popularized in another saga…
Poison Ivy’s Gorilla
One of the high points of that aesthetic madness that Schumacher decided to take to its ultimate consequences after starting to play with her in ‘Batman Forever’. I don’t think it looked bad there, but here she went out of her way, a lot. An example is a particular party organized by Poison Ivy and in which we see creatures like the one in the image.
Batman’s credit card
Another example that this is the only film that inherited something from the spirit of the 60s. If everything had been done like this, it might even have worked, but the reality is that it is one of the most infamous moments in the history of 1960s cinema. superheroes, both for the fact itself and for the previous bream conversation between Batman and Robin.
The Mr. Freeze Chorus
Moments like this leave you not knowing what to say or how to deal with the fact that someone thought it was a good idea.. Of course, it is unforgettable and it also connects well with the tone of the 60s series. If only the whole movie had been like this instead of a strange concoction…
The fight of everything to a euro against Bane and Poison Ivy
The action scenes in the film are, in general terms, complete nonsense. I wanted to highlight another one in which Poison Ivy and Bane face a kind of psychotropic putty from the ‘Power Rangers’but the one above fighting our heroes also brings them.
The eloquence of the dialogues
Akiva Goldsman He won an Oscar just four years later for his work on ‘A Beautiful Mind’, but here he didn’t really eat his head. Proof of this are his ridiculous dialogues, like some of the video above.
Robin’s triggered ego
There are several tense moments between Batman and Robin, both due to the former’s distrust of letting the latter make decisions for himself and the influence that Poison Ivy exerts on them, but the climax is when the character played by Chris O’Donnell Requires own carThe Robinmobile?– and a sign in the sky like Batman’s. The ego through the roof.
Random cameos?
there you have coolio making a seemingly random appearance that would lead to nothing else. Actually the idea was that he would become Scarecrow in the next installment and that’s why he agreed to be seen here.
The intimate moment between Batman and Alfred
The closest thing to good cinema that there is in the whole film. It is worth that today we have lived through so many scenes about the tragic past of the character that it is already tiring to go back to it, but here it is done with an inappropriate tact in the film and without emphasizing it more than necessary.
The password moment and everything that follows it
Starting with the way to get the password -so anyone could have gotten hold of it!- and continuing with the fact that an agonizing Alfred was able to organize all this. One of the high points of the show.
Robin’s fake lips
Robin manages to trick Poison Ivy with fake lips so he doesn’t get poisoned by one of her kisses! Very intelligent, unless we stop to think that easily some of that poisonous substance could have reached his saliva anyway…
Batgirl kicking Poison Ivy’s ass
At the time, Alicia Silverstone was criticized for have gained some weight and it was commented that many of her scenes as Batgirl were cut for that reason. That -brief- fight is her moment of glory, or at least that’s how the movie wants to sell it…
You don’t have to be less cute for being about to fight
A mistaken tactic -that doesn’t work for him at all- or simply another nonsense of the script signed by Akiva Goldsman? I vote for the second.
Mr. Freeze’s Regret
After a huge battle that is actually just as clumsy and absurd as the rest of the action scenes, comes Mr. Freeze’s inevitable regret.
Let’s not think too much about that tear – it doesn’t make scientific sense, but hey, love conquers everything – and let’s remember that last comic touch when he gives Batman the cure for Alfred’s disease. It is hardly a coincidence that he has the same one as the villain’s wife but in a less advanced state…
Goodbye Batman
The suffering has come to an end and the three heroes run towards us advancing their return. It was not the case, since ‘Batman and Robin’ flopped at the box office, putting an end to the plans for a fifth installment and also to the possible spin-off focused on Robin. Maybe something good could have come out of there, but I am left with the fact that without the collapse of the saga here we would never have had the Batman of Christopher Nolan.
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