The acrobat troupe, the Flying Graysons, get rid of Two-Face’s bomb, but Two-Face kills them all except Dick (Chris O’Donnell). How or why Two-Face thinks Batman is incognito in the circus’ audience of about 1,000 is unknown. In his goofiest attempt, he brings a bomb to the social event of the year (the opening of the Gotham Circus) and announces he’ll kill everybody if the person in the crowd who’s secretly Batman doesn’t fess up. Two-Face - played by an immensely scenery-chewing Tommy Lee Jones - wants to commit basic crimes like diamond robberies, but he’s obsessed with murdering Batman. We can’t go through the thing where you go scene by scene. The movie’s tone is completely erratic from its very first scene. Then we get the reveal of the Batmobile, scored to most triumphant parts of Danny Elfman’s Batman theme, followed immediately by the first spoken lines of the movie:Īlfred: Can I persuade you to take a sandwich with you, sir?Īnd then, completely incongruously, the Elfman music blares up again as Val Kilmer’s Batman races out of the Batcave.

So Batman Forever is much less than the sum of its parts. It’s a natural evolutionary step from Burton to B&R, but it’s trying to be brooding and campy in the same movie, and those are cancelling each other out.

Now people are coming around on Schumacher’s Batman & Robin for that same reason, but Batman Forever is caught in-between. For them, it was crushing disappointment that the first superhero movie franchise that wasn’t solely aimed at kids was devolving into the silliness of the campy ‘60s show. There are many, many reasons Batman Forever is hard to watch by young nerds who’d been delighted by Tim Burton’s first movies found it in 1995. Well, does it deserve the same renaissance Batman & Robin is having?

But does Batman Forever deserve the same chance? I had to do a FAQ to investigate. However, recently, the even sillier sequel Batman & Robin has been reassessed as a movie so bad it’s good by fans who now have the capacity to accept corny superhero movies. The follow-up to Tim Burton’s beloved Batman and Batman Returns was derided when it was released in 1995 as being too silly.

Desperate times call for desperate measures, and things must be desperate here because I just watched Joel Schumacher’s first Batman movie, Batman Forever.

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