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Batman Forever (1995)

Director: Joel Schumacher

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The second sequel to Tim Burton's 1989 blockbuster makes its predecessors appear models of subtlety and coherence. In theory the film marks a new lease of life for the caped crusader (new star, new faces, new director); in practice everything about Forever feels stale and self- conscious. Kilmer is a more sensual Bruce Wayne than Michael Keaton, but if anything his remodelled body-tight Batsuit proves even more of a straitjacket. As in Returns, our hero has to fight for screen time with not one, but two scene-stealing villains, Jones's (wasted) Harvey Two-Face and Carrey's Riddler, plus the love interest, Kidman's ludicrously perverse shrink Dr Meridian. As if that's not enough, he's been stuck with a partner-in-crimebusting, O'Donnell's butch young Robin, obviously designed to broaden the demographics (the queer styling even runs to a fetishistic close-up of the Bat-butt). The perfunctory plot concerns the Riddler's mass-marketing of a televisual brain drain.

Author: TCh

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VAL KILMER said...

Posted on Aug 05 2011 04:35 VAL KILMER IS THE WORLD CHAMPION OF ACTOR

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Pasturelands said...

Posted on Jan 12 2010 07:35 KILMER is a better Batman than crazy clutzy dumb KEATON. Kilmer's BRUCE WAYNE is suave, smart, and sexy. But the script is horrible, and the plot is INSANE. All that garbage is worth 200 million to produce?? The director and screenplay writers should be SHOT. TWICE.

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