Batman Forever (1995)

That was an excellent one.

Sadly Over-hyped

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Batman Forever was just terrible. The first two films by Tim Burton were great. I think it was a real mistake to start going so cartoonish. The series got even worse after this film (Batman and Robin was atrocious) but this film was really bad itself. A stupid story, dumb characters doing dumb things, hammy over acting, stupid direction, awful writing. This movie stinks.

What to say about this film??? Well... IT'S FRIGGIN' AMAZING! Acting way up the top, the Caped Crusader (Val Kilmer). The part that really annoys me is that Robin thinks he can just go out and take the Batmobile for a joy ride???? Cut the crap about Val Kilmer being the second worst actor as Batman think of it this way...Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey did the best acting as villains. They're up there with The Penguin (Danny DeVito) and Catwoman (Michelle Pheiffer). If there were the Top 2 Actors that did the best at being villains it would easily have to be Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey. Their villain acting was godly! No doubt about it. And for all you people that are saying, 'Oh where is Burton?" Well guess what? TIM BURTON PRODUCED IT! PRODUCING MEANS TO MAKE IT, DIRECTING MEANS TO TELL THE PEOPLE WHAT TO DO! MAKING MEANS MORE!

Batman Forever was a sign of things getting truly batshit crazy for the Batman franchise. The last two films were great iterations of The Dark Knight but Warner Brothers wanted things to be lightened-up for younger audiences as opposed to Tim Burton's German-Expressionistic style of directing. Enter Joel Schumacher, the man who eventually crippled the franchise with Batman & Robin TWO YEARS after he did Batman Forever. Well, at least he kept his style of filmmaking consistent with the two movies: hamming it up to the point of no return, until Chris Nolan resurrected the franchise with Batman Begins in 2005 (thank Christ).So, is this film so sinfully bad that anyone who likes it deserves to be crucified to high-heaven and back? No. But it's not all that good either. Batman Forever has become a widely forgotten-about blockbuster because of how inoffensive it was. It still is, but the precedent it set for Batman & Robin was not. This so-so movie was just a sign of things to come in the broader sense of things.As a lifelong Batman fan, I can easily this is one Batman film you can happily skip during your next Batman-athon. This is filler material incarnate.

This movie is a lot different from, and in my opinion much inferior to, the first two entries in the (original) Batman movie franchise. I think it's because they had new creative people in place (the new director but also some new cast), and they took the movie into a much too cartoon-like direction. I thought the original Batman movie (1989) was fantastic, and I know a lot of people actually disliked Batman Returns but I still thought it was a very good, entertaining movie. But this movie I thought was a clunker, and the one after this (Batman and Robin) is a complete disaster.You'll enjoy the series if you stop after the second one, when Tim Burton and Michael Keaton both left the series. Trust me.