10 Comic Book Movies Everyone Loves To Hate
8. Batman & Robin
If you’ve ever wanted to see a $125 million superhero film on the same intellectual level as See Spot Run, Joel Schumacher has a surprise for you.
When not professing his love for his dying butler, Bruce Wayne wears a rubber suit with nipples and partners with Master Dick Grayson to fight hockey-playing minions in what looks like a neon-drenched set from a 1930s Universal horror movie.
The minions are in the employ of Mr Freeze, a supervillain who in one sequence wears panda slippers and a dressing gown adorned with polar bears while leading his men in a singalong inside a giant freezer. Even lamer is his attempt at tough guy talk: “My name is Freeze – learn it vell, for it izzz the chilling zzound of your doom!”
Speaking of the dialogue, several characters display an unwholesome interest in the downstairs department, from Poison Ivy’s talk of an “anatomically correct rubber suit” to Batman and Robin trading quips about her “buds” and “stems.”
Thoroughly horrible, Batman & Robin is bearable - just about - if viewed as a camp curio. Others beware.