Batman & Robin (1997)
“Batman smells — Robin laid an egg.” I couldn’t get these words to the famous “Jingle Bells” parody out of my head while watching what might be the worst mega-budget fiasco of the decade. By...
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Batman Begins (2005)
Easily the best Batman movie made to date (later bested by its sequel), Batman Begins takes an ice-cold franchise and makes it red-hot again by reinventing itself. When we last left the series, Joel Schumacher had run...
Batman Returns (1992)
I remember when I was much younger being completely entranced by this sequel to the mega-blockbuster, Batman, for its darkly complex, psychological world of gray-area shades of good vs. evil. Watching it today, I wince...
Catwoman (2004)
Change the name, change the origin, change the town, change the personality, and what do you have? Not DC Comics’ Catwoman, I can attest. The only similarities between Catwoman‘s Patience Phillips and Selina Kyle of...
Batman Forever (1995)
It’s not that the Batman series has run out of ideas by this point, it’s just that the makers of Batman Forever have no idea where to look for inspiration. Tim Burton gives up the directorial reins to...
The Batman Superman Movie: World’s Finest (1997)
The Joker (voiced by Mark Hamill) is hard up for money so he buys a kryptonite statue and travels to Metropolis, where he concocts a scheme to kill Superman (Daly) for Lex Luthor (Brown) for the amount...