Sorry, this movie sucks

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Movie Review: "Batman Forever" (1995)A succession to Tim Burton's two-times interpretation of legendary comicbook-superhero "Batman", created by Bob Kane (1915-1998), comes at a hard stack of a 100 Million Production Value, when director Joel Schumacher needs to utilize all his routine and color forcing companionship with cinematogrpher Stephen Goldblatt, who saves the picture to be a failure, when "Hollywood" all-stars as Nicole Kidman as Deluxe support, Tommy-Lee Jones as over-made-up Two-Face, Jim Carrey as timeless show-stealing character of "The Riddler" to Val Kilmer as solid, but not spectacular "Bruce Wayne" deliver a surprisingly visceral comic-action event-movie, which annoys and fascinates at the same time, when out-of-shadow actor Chris O'Donnell as "Dick Grayson aka Robin" brings balance to a 115-Minute-Cut; keeping it even with unforgiven continuity "loopholes" of life-and-death situation at times of showdown after helicopter-, batmobile- and batboat-actions in atmospheric ambience throughout towards extraordinary less-to-no digital interference live-action 2nd unit photography, when unforntunately the gothic-to-morbid suspense of the Tim Burton directed, Michael Keaton starred precessors can not be reached to full satisfactions.Nevertheless due to its boldness of image system splendors and ultra-stark opening sequence "Batman Forever" stays relevant for revisits concerning any past, present or future generation of cinematic spectactors presented exclusively as proudly by Warner Bros. Pictures.Copyright 2018 Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC

Now that's a loud matter to review !(Val Kilmer) was just a handsome robot, delivering his lines tastelessly as if it's intentional. At one episode of "Inside The Actor Studio", Kilmer said that he hated the role, the suit, the whole deal, but Hey.. that's not an enough justification for not making his best, or spending any effort (or maybe what we watched was his best !). The script provided us with many explosive situations, but it was idiotic at certain places; Bruce Wayne is thinking about bat, so he's Batman ! (I may think about sea at times, so that makes me Aquaman ?!!). Batman saves Harvey Dent / Two-Face from a whole deformation, so the latter wants to revenge on Batman NOT the real doer ?? Moreover, the solution of all the Riddler's riddles' is the "Riddler" himself, so he was only declaring himself ?? There were smart ideas along the way, which the script wasted utterly; like the character of the Two-Face as someone who lives an inner conflict all the time, and also the plan of the Riddler to suck the people's brains through TV. But who said that this movie wanted to be smart ?! The movie wanted to make crazy action unremittingly, while being one huge party of vociferous colors unlike its too dark antecedent Batman Returns. Yes, the colors were harmonious, but their turmoil was onerous. Therefore Elliot Goldenthal's orchestrated music sounded too noisy to stand among all of this. Ironically, the movie's music video with U2's masterpiece (Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me) was better than the movie itself !Name good things IN it ? Well, just 2 things were perfect : the beauty of Nicole Kidman and Drew Barrymore, and when I knew that (William Baldwin) was considered for the role of Batman and (Linda Hamilton) as his girl; since I thanked God, deeming not doing that a good thing indeed !To everyone complained about (Batman & Robin) as the uglier one in the first franchise, telling unstoppable jokes about the nipples of the Batsuit as the lowest bottom that movie hit-please look closer, the nipples made their first appearance IN HERE first, where the evil seed of "silly" was sown. To end it on a tolerant note, I'll say that this is a gaudy, loud, silly action; which's usual in most of Hollywood movies !

(Flash Review)Watching this after a couple 60's French heist films was an abrupt switch as this was an explosion of wild and garish visuals and jarring pacing with aggressive shot framing. Once I got into mental rhythm it started to grow on me after a lackluster beginning. It grew on me due to Jim Carrey perfectly getting into the role of The Riddler. He stole the show for me and easily overshadowed Kilmer as Batman. This time Batman is up against Two-Face as he wrongly assumes Batman was the reason for his facial disfigurement and then also The Riddler who transforms himself from a computer genius into The Riddler striving to build a device to drain all the information from all the brains in Gotham. To top all that off, Batman's future partner Robin is introduced and then mix in a romantic angle with Kidman as Dr. Chase Meridian and you have many interesting storylines that are sufficiently intertwined. The humor in this was more deliberate, felt more comic-like and had more sexual innuendos. The scene esthetics felt more busy than the first two and the effects looked more fake and dated than the 'older' movies ironically. Overall, this was still wild fun yet loses a bit of the original Burton magic for me.

"Batman Forever" has all the makings of a great superhero film, the costume design are top notch, Gotham City looks great and the special effects never betray the fact that this was released in 1995, and I particularly adored the moment where the Bat-Signal became the dot under the Riddler's interrogation mark, all in flashy green. But I can also use a still frame of that moment to describe my general puzzlement toward the film. It's not bad enough to deserve a severe bashing but it's one of these cases where a film comes so close to being great that your disappointment almost amplifies the flaws. I could say that at least, this is no "Batman & Robin" but that wouldn't say much, would it? So, Burton became the producer and Joel Schumacher, although in another league of filmmaking, injected something fresh and unprecedented in a franchise that was getting maybe too dark and too gloomy for its own good. Batman is no jovial fellow but the problem when you overplay the noir tone is that you create a world where the notion of 'heroism' is totally relative. And when someone goes to such extents to save the world from crime, having to wear all these heavy costumes, and engineering the most sophisticated weapons, you've got to accept that there are positive motives behind it. At the end of "Batman Returns", I felt quite depressed, this was a movie where the villains were as misfit as the 'hero' and needed a great deal of psychotherapy. "Batman Forever" tends to get to the original format with a clearly defined hero and villain and still maintain a balanced psychological approach to Bruce Wayne. It's not all flash and no substance.And another mistake it doesn't commit is to overflow the film with villains like "Returns", this time, there are two bad guys, they're not on the same level than Joker, but together, they form a pair that is rather entertaining although a bit redundant, there's the maniac Harvey Dent two-Face played by Tommy Lee Jones and Edward Nygma aka the Riddler, a scientist played by Jim Carrey. They form a rather interesting duo except for one thing: they're equally crazy, and it's like each one tries to top the other, they're like the human versions of "The Lion King" hyenas or the weasels from "Who framed Roger Rabbi". On the other hand, Val Kilmer (a decent Batman) plays a low-key Bruce Wayne who meets journalist Chase Meredian (Nicole Kidman) with and without the costume. Well, she's obviously attracted by his leather counterpart but from his interactions, you can tell he's tempted to unveil a few of his secrets, the interactions work and prove that there's not a Batman movie with a good romantic love interest.But while Serena Kyle was also enigmatic on her own right and kind of stole Batman's thunder, Chase is that little anchor to Batman's status as a hero, even hinting at some sexual aspects of Batman, the movie generally pretends to ignore, there's a sort of self-awareness to appreciate in the film. Overall, I loved how it tried some new things while respecting a form of continuity with the previous Batman, and that includes another great performance from Michael Gough as Alfred. I guess it also gets right the encounter with Dick Grayson aka future Robin in a circus scene that has all the futuristic and baroque visuals you expect from a Batman film, spicing up the movie with a new young and rebellious protagonist who's the tumultuous Yin to Batman's yang. The Freudian undertones are subdued; we know there's something of a surrogate father in Batman with Robin, while he's also hooked to the memories of his parents' death and the conviction that he killed them somehow.But the film seems always at the edge of reaching something powerful without really getting to it, and I guess the blame is on the overuse of special effects and the villains that never find the right note. When Bruce and Grace's interview were disrupted by their entrance, I was bothered too and I didn't really care for the part where Riddler was throwing explosive balls. Sure the pyrotechnics did justice to the film's budget, but did it have more to prove on a less visual level? I seriously wish it would have tried to explore more in depth the personality of "Batman", especially from the perspective of a journalist. That's what makes "Batman Forever" a frustrating experience, moments of brilliance ruined by unexpected plot contrivances and too flashy visuals thrown at our faces.I will never understand what the purpose of that close-up on Batman rubber buttocks was supposed to inspire, what the writers thought when Grace came up with such a corny line as "Batman will come to rescue me" and the two villains venture so many times in cartoons' territory, especially with Carrey channeling both the Mask and Ace Ventura, that you have the feeling Bruce Wayne is really lost, as the only realistic man, caught in a live-action cartoon. Joel Schumacher is no untalented director, he got the budget, the right casting and the special effects but for some reason, he didn't create the right balance between the hero and villains' personality, so that the film often falls in the obvious trap and while being slightly better than "Batman Returns" never reaches the level of "Batman", it's a mixed bag, but with a few enjoyable moments.Again, it plays many leagues above "Batman & Robin", which explains why they went for a fourth movie, you know, the one too many.