Batman and Robin (1997)
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 125m
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Uma Thurman, Alicia Silverstone, Michael Gough
Synopsis:
Batman comes up against Mr Freeze and Poison Ivy, quarrels with Robin and tries to cure Alfred of a wasting disease.
Review:
The film also introduces Batgirl in the shape of a computer hacking blonde and this multi-stranded approach to narrative is its undoing. Schumacher is unremitting with the kitsch mise-en-scène, and the actors fail to strike a single natural note amid all the pantomime and gratingly metaphoric one-liners. In sum, it adds nothing new whatever to the series, which came to a noisy end with this fourth episode. (The one point of interest, and this is for Kim Newman wannabes only, is that the 'human monster' of The Dark Knight Rises, Bane, is here present in a far less threatening realization, as if he has strayed off the set of Young Frankenstein.)
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 125m
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Uma Thurman, Alicia Silverstone, Michael Gough
Synopsis:
Batman comes up against Mr Freeze and Poison Ivy, quarrels with Robin and tries to cure Alfred of a wasting disease.
Review:
The film also introduces Batgirl in the shape of a computer hacking blonde and this multi-stranded approach to narrative is its undoing. Schumacher is unremitting with the kitsch mise-en-scène, and the actors fail to strike a single natural note amid all the pantomime and gratingly metaphoric one-liners. In sum, it adds nothing new whatever to the series, which came to a noisy end with this fourth episode. (The one point of interest, and this is for Kim Newman wannabes only, is that the 'human monster' of The Dark Knight Rises, Bane, is here present in a far less threatening realization, as if he has strayed off the set of Young Frankenstein.)
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 125m
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Uma Thurman, Alicia Silverstone, Michael Gough
Synopsis:
Batman comes up against Mr Freeze and Poison Ivy, quarrels with Robin and tries to cure Alfred of a wasting disease.
Review:
The film also introduces Batgirl in the shape of a computer hacking blonde and this multi-stranded approach to narrative is its undoing. Schumacher is unremitting with the kitsch mise-en-scène, and the actors fail to strike a single natural note amid all the pantomime and gratingly metaphoric one-liners. In sum, it adds nothing new whatever to the series, which came to a noisy end with this fourth episode. (The one point of interest, and this is for Kim Newman wannabes only, is that the 'human monster' of The Dark Knight Rises, Bane, is here present in a far less threatening realization, as if he has strayed off the set of Young Frankenstein.)