10 Worst Summer Movies Of All Time
4. Batman & Robin
Release Date: 27 June 1997
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.”
Even director Joel Schumacher admitted to the movie’s poor quality in an interview with Variety. “I just hope whenever I see a list of the worst movies ever made, we’re not on it. I didn’t do a good job. George did. Chris did. Uma is brilliant in it. Arnold is Arnold.”