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.

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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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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Joe Lipsett

Horror Queers Podcast

12/07/2022

2/5

There's pleasure to be found in how campy Joel Schumacher's second Batman outing is (puns!), but everyone except Thurman and Schwarzenegger are phoning their performances in. Too long and too focused on toy sales, this is excess, but not the good kind.

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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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John R

@RT56513869 Apr 7

A bad movie with a few good moments… definitely not as bad as Batman Forever

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Brendan K.

@Bkeller25 Apr 6

It's really not a good film by any metric, but it wasn't quite as bad as I was expecting. You have to view it as a campy over the top experience rather than anything intentionally great. It does have some redeeming qualities, namely the look of the environments and fog (also in the previous film), as well as the interactions between Alfred and Bruce. There's a decent movie in here somewhere, but something was clearly lost along the way. In particular, the plot is way too overstuffed and as a result feels very unfocused. I could see how this was so disappointing after the first three 80s/90s films, but as it stands, it stands in the entertaining but heavily flawed category.

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FUN PARK T

@FUN_PARK Feb 1

A film from my childhood, I watched it with rapture.

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Pietro A

@101rotten Jan 11

I'ts funny? Yes, too much? Yes, thats the problem, if it was a little bit more serious i would give 5 stars, because arnold's acting it's awesome!

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Jhulio F

@JFerreira44 Jan 11

Essa e uma daquelas provas que, as vezes elenco, não salva filme. E triste dizer isso pois sou fã do Batman e todos seus filmes e quadrinhos, mas este filme e uma vergonha a toda a história do Batman.

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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)

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