Batman & Robin

As if one bad George Clooney movie wasn’t enough, for some reason, after watching From Dusk Till Dawn, I decided to sit through Batman & Robin again. That was a mistake I won’t soon stop regretting. Two hours worth of another Clooney movie that stinks up the joint. Clooney stars in the movie that brought down the Batman franchise to new lows of stupidity. For his part, Clooney isn’t half bad in the role, and if he had the benefit of a decent script, he might have been an OK Batman. But as it was, this movie made the 1960’s Batman TV series look like Shakespeare. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Uma Thurman play villains Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy. Both are bent on destroying Gotham City. So what else is new? It was sad to watch how bad Schwarzenegger’s dialogue was. I’m not sure what the hell he was thinking when he took this role. It was a pathetic cartoonish character, and his lot in life was only made worse by the fact that he was surrounded by over-the-top special effects that overtook the entire movie. This is the final movie (so far) in the Batman series, instead of the dark brooding original movie that started the Batman series of movies, this one has devolved to the point where it is even campier and more cartoon-like than the Batman TV series. Not even Schwarzenegger and Thurman were able to begin to pull this movie out of the tailspin that it enters right at the opening moments of the film.