BATMAN & ROBIN (1997)
Featuring: George Clooney; Chris O'Donnell; Arnold Schwartzenegger
Director: Joel Schumacher
Once, while appearing on the BBC's Graham Norton Show, George Clooney told how at some stage he apologized for destroying the Batman franchise. Ironically he was the best of the bunch from that particular era. Whereas neither Michael Keaton nor Val Kilmer convinced as the Dark Knight, George Clooney fitted into the role as if it was created for him. Batman Forever introduced Chris O'Donnell as Robin and in this movie he continues in that role. Then there are Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy and Alicia Silverstone as Batgirl to make things interesting. But the real treat is to watch in this film is Arnold Schwartzenegger as the villainous but simultanious almost pathetic Mr Freeze. As usual Arnie is a real hoot.
Batman and side-kick Robin, assisted by Batgirl, is called upon to save the good people of Gotham when Mr Freeze and Poison Ivy team up in order to destroy the city and at the same time also annihilate everybody in it.
This time around Tim Burton is not involved at all and it shows. It is as if this last film in this particular series lacks the darkness that characterized the previous three. And that is unfortunate. It is exactly that 'darkness' which gave the Batman comics its unique flavor.
Yet, despite that, I still find the movie quite entertaining and rate it 3 out of 5 stars.
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George Clooney... the only real Batman from the 80's and 90's movie series
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