Batman & Robin is the final nail in the coffin for the 1990s Batman franchise. Is Batman & Robin watchable? Barely. Is it good? Certainly not. The film is an embarrassing mess, with overacting and obvious attempts at camp plastered all over the screen to the point of making you cringe yourself inside out. Instead of a Batman film, it's more like a menagerie of Batman characters (Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Mr Freeze, Poison Ivy, Bane) strung together into a two hour commercial. Speaking of which, two hours was way too long to sit through this train wreck. At 80 minutes, I thought the film was about over until I realized with horror that 45 minutes remained. The script is absolute shit, with pun after miserable pun fouling the air. This is particularly bad with the villains--Schwarzenegger's Mr Freeze and Uma Thurman's Poison Ivy must crack a joke every other line. Thurman puts on a Hepburn-esque accent in an attempt to be sexier, I guess, Clooney phones it in, and Chris O'Donnell was always annoying. Alicia Silverstone contributes nothing but awkward padding. Really, the only bearable performance was Michael Gough's Alfred, but on the whole the film was difficult to watch. Posh production values and great special effects failed to soothe the pain. Do I regret watching it? Not really, but I'm not proud either.
3/10
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