3. Alicia Silverstone Can't Talk
Batman & Robin is rightly confirmed as the worst modern Batman movie - it is still a world ahead of the 1966 Batman movie starring Adam West - and by some distance. The direction was undisciplined and ill-conceived, the art direction was poor, and the whole tone was a million miles away from that which had made Tim Burton's Batman movies so enduringly popular. There's clearly no debate that the worst things about the film were the villains, with a sex-pot Poison Ivy joining the comically overblown Bane, over-powered by ludicrous day-glo toxins (the most pertinent personification of a film's problems that's ever been) and the muscular, quiptastic Mr Freeze. All were bad ideas, but they were joined at the top of the unwanted additions list by Alicia Silverstone's inconceivably bad Batgirl. Not content with bringing in one distracting sidekick, Schumacher decided to bring Alfred's suspiciously American niece Barbara to give us all the chance to see Alicia Silverstone's shapely rear end clad in leather in an extreme close-up. Oh, and her leather-clad breasts too. Sadly, Clueless was clearly a blip in Silverstone's mostly unremarkable career, and she showed her inappropriateness for the role by failing to actually deliver lines without sounding like she was the kind of "tired and emotional" that actors tend to get on TV shows, just before they toddle off the rehab. Words don't so much flow out of her as wrestle their way out of, and trip over her lips, and she's hardly the kind of actor you would choose if your film relied on the cheap pay-off of comical quips.