Batman: Every Screen Batmobile Ranked From Best To Worst

6. Chicks Dig The Car - Batman & Robin

There's a lot of things that Batman And Robin got wrong. In fact Joel Schumacher's second Dark Knight movie got almost everything wrong it possibly could, aiming for the camp fun of the sixties show and missing by a considerable distance, instead dragging the brooding superhero into the sort of sickly, kitschy hell that Baz Luhrmann's made his millions off the back of. All it needed was Jim Broadbent singing a Nirvana song and it could've been a sequel to Moulin Rouge! Or possibly a prequel. Either way, it would have been just as undeserving of that many Academy Award nominations. For all its myriad sins, however (the bat nipples, the bad jokes, the costume changes, the Alicia Silverstone), Schumacher's Batman And Robin did get one thing right. The way they used the Batmobile wasn't the greatest - the chase after Mister Freeze across Gotham's strange, previously-unseen collection of Statue Of Liberty knock-offs was a mess of bad physics and cheap CGI - but we actually quite dig the car's design. Compared to some of the Batmobiles which preceded it (including the piece of crap Val Kilmer's Batman drove, which we'll get to in due course) and the considerable lack of taste that went into designing every other aspect of Batman And Robin, this one was positively restrained. Well, it's still pretty larger-than-life, but we love that it keeps the mostly-black colour scheme and bat wings at the back, with hints at molten colour beneath the hood and the glowing rims brightening things up just a tad. And not a nipple in sight.