10 Critically-Reviled Comic Book Movies (That Weren't Actually That Bad)

Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer Score: 11%

Critic Consensus: "Joel Schumacher's tongue-in-cheek attitude hits an unbearable limit in Batman & Robin resulting in a frantic and mindless movie that's too jokey to care much for."

You might be in shock to see it here, but just hear me out okay?

The tale of the original Batman film franchise is well-documented. Over the course of eight years, Warner Bros. produced four movies based on the character that ranged from critical masterpieces to critical maulings. The first two found themselves sitting comfortably in the former category while the third was somewhere in between. Batman & Robin, however, was the only to find itself in the latter, receiving a mauling from fans and critics while going down in infamy for killing the franchise.

But the truth is that you can watch the 1997 film in one of two ways. If you watch it the same way you watched Batman '89, Batman Returns and, yeah, even Batman Forever, you're destined to hate it because it's incapable of taking much seriously. But if you can remove it from the franchise and simply watch it as a standalone spectacle that just so happened to release three decades too late, it's actually very entertaining.

To use the old cliché, Batman & Robin is actually so bad, it's good. And if you can forget about the damage it did to the franchise, this high-production pantomime is a lot of fun... ice puns and all!