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Batman And Robin [1997]


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Amazon.co.uk Review

Following Val Kilmer's portrayal of the caped crusader in Batman Forever, the fourth Batman feature stars George Clooney under the pointy-eared cowl, with Chris O'Donnell returning as Robin the Boy Wonder. This time the dynamic duo is up against the nefarious Mr Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger), who is bent on turning the world into an iceberg, and the slyly seductive but highly toxic Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman), who wants to eliminate all animal life and turn the Earth into a gigantic greenhouse. Alicia Silverstone lends a hand as Batgirl, and Elle McPherson plays the thankless role of Batman/Bruce Wayne's fiancèe. A sensory assault of dazzling colours, senseless action and lavish sets run amok, this Batman & Robin offers an overdose of eye candy, but it is strictly for devoted Bat-o-philes. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

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Special Features

Wide Screen
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Surround 5.1 English
Dolby Surround 5.1
Interactive Menus
Production Notes
Scene Access
Arabic\Croatian\Czech\English\Greek\Hungarian\Icelandic\Polish\Turkish

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Synopsis

The Caped Crusader returns to battle the abominable Mr. Freeze and green-thumbed Poison Ivy. To save his ailing wife, Dr. Victor Fries turns to a life of crime after a hideous accident makes him unable to tolerate even moderate temperatures, while Dr. Pamela Isley falls victim to mutated plant DNA when things go awry in a jungle laboratory funded by Wayne Industries. Of course, though their interests are diametrically opposed (Freeze wants another Ice Age; Ivy wants to make the world safe for plants), the two villains team up to defeat Gotham's dynamic duo of Batman and Robin, who are joined by butler Alfred's motorcycle-obsessed niece as Batgirl. And when Alfred is diagnosed as having the same terminal disease as Freeze's wife, the trio find themselves not only fighting an altruistic battle, but a personal one as well. A frenetic, colorful, and often overwhelming sequel to "Batman," "Batman Returns," and "Batman Forever."

Just plain awful!!
Review date: 2008-08-17 Rating: 2 out of 10

I am life long Batman fan and this film made me feel physically sick and almost brought on tears of despair. There is no redeeming features in this movie and should be deleted from existence. Thank goodness the new films have shown how to really do Batman. I feel I may have wasted my time even lowering myself to comment on this piece of trash. Just don't ever buy this film. It deserves negative stars.

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Truly terrible.
Review date: 2008-05-09 Rating: 2 out of 10

I have been known to watch some rubbish but this one I walked out on. It has to be the most embarrassingly, cringeworthy film ever made. Don't let a great cast fool you. Awful! Lol @ "Who gave it 5 stars?"

Honestly not good...at all
Review date: 2008-03-05 Rating: 2 out of 10

Lol, who gave this five stars? To sum up, of all the things that are good, this isn't one of them.

Mindless fun
Review date: 2008-02-23 Rating: 10 out of 10

I really quite enjoyed this movie. Its completely over-the-top bravado impressed me. Be warned though, if you take Batman seriously then you shouldn't watch. But for the majority of us, the non-anally retentive people, then this movie is a lot of fun and well worth a rental.

The villains were very cool in this one, and we had FOUR!! Arnie got better as the film went on. He was a real hoot. Uma was totally over-the-top and crazy as Poison Ivy. She was funny and extremely hot! There was also Bane as Ivy's sidekick who was funny whenever he appeared even though (and probably because) nothing he said ever made any sense! Then there was Bane's creator, Dr Woodrue played by John Glover with probably the best performance of the film. I wish he could have been in more of it.

The heroes weren't so flash though. Alicia Silverstone was spunky as Batgirl but the title characters, Batman and Robin as played by Clooney and O'Donnell were pretty lame. Batman was made to say too many corny one-liners. This should have been left to the villains, it suits them. It definitely didn't suit Batman. Robin was just flat out annoying. Michael Gough as Alfred actually gives quite a good dramatic performance in amongst all the campiness, I'm not sure why he bothered.

The SFX were great. The weren't at all realistic which was the way it was intended to be you fools! The whole film is dazzling on the eyes, whether it be the sets or the aray of good looking actors and actresses. Too put together a film of this large of a scale is quite an achievement. Anyone who says that Schumacher isn't a good director, doesn't know anything about directing films.

This is definitely one of the best no-brainer films of recent years. To all you people who are pining for the miserable Burton Batmans, get stuffed. Burton made his two movies, if you like them so much, then go and watch THEM. Schumacher has now made his two films to appeal to a different audience. Now it's probably time to see what someone else will do with the franschise. I can't wait.


You might like it
Review date: 2007-09-06 Rating: 4 out of 10

As a batman film compared to the first 2 (& even the 3rd)this film is absolute rubbish (to put it politely).
BUT compared to the likes of Spiderman, X-Men, Fantastic 4, Daredevil and all the other Super hero films that have been released in recent years (Im not including the Blade trilogy in that) I would say this one is no worse than the rest.
So if you are into the whole cheesy family friendly Superhero films you might actually quite enjoy this.

Product Details/Specifications


Actor(s):
George Clooney
Chris O'Donnell
Uma Thurman
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Alicia Silverstone

Creators:
Arnold Schwarzenegger (Primary Contributor)
George Clooney (Primary Contributor)

Director(s):

Recording label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
EAN: 7321900165006
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL, Widescreen,
Release date: 1998-05-11
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: Parental Guidance
Region code: 2
Running time: 120 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1997-06-20
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: Turkish (Subtitled)
Language: Hungarian (Subtitled)
Language: Polish (Subtitled)
Language: Icelandic (Subtitled)
Language: Arabic (Subtitled)
Language: Croatian (Subtitled)
Language: Czech (Subtitled)
Language: Greek (Subtitled)

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