Batman & Robin

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Batman & Robin

PG-13

Released Jun 20, 1997

2h 10m

Action

Adventure

Fantasy

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This superhero adventure finds Batman (George Clooney) and his partner, Robin (Chris O'Donnell), attempting to the foil the sinister schemes of a deranged set of new villains, most notably the melancholy Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger), who wants to make Gotham into an arctic region, and the sultry Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman), a plant-loving femme fatale. As the Dynamic Duo contends with these bad guys, a third hero, Batgirl (Alicia Silverstone), joins the ranks of the city's crime-fighters.

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Critics 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.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

An amiable, almost farcical Batman episode, with George in Nespresso mode.

Rated: 3/5

May 17, 2019

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Jason Bailey

Flavorwire

Schumacher is like a bad stepdad who thinks we'll love him if he just feeds us candy all day. (Yes, Burton is the daddy in this metaphor - the manic-depressive, annoyingly emo daddy.)

Jun 18, 2017

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Joe Morgenstern

Wall Street Journal

Of all modern Batmans, George Clooney bears the closest physical resemblance to the comic-book hero, but there isn't much to say about his performance because there isn't much performance to discuss.

Jun 18, 2014

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Cory Woodroof

For the Win (USA Today)

It’s hard to hate a movie that’s so fun, even if it’s quite flawed.

Feb 28, 2024

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Trace Thurman

Horror Queers Podcast

It's not good, but it's not the total disaster its legacy would suggest. As an ode to the Silver Age of the Caped Crusader, it gets a lot of things right, but the pacing grinds to a halt any time one of our heroes is on screen. Thank god for Uma Thurman.

Rated: 2.5/5

Dec 12, 2022

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Joe Lipsett

Horror Queers Podcast

There's pleasure to be found in how campy Joel Schumacher's second Batman outing is (puns!), but everyone except Thurman and Schwarzenegger are phoning their performances in. Too long and too focused on toy sales, this is excess, but not the good kind.

Rated: 2/5

Dec 7, 2022

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Bakercakes

It pains me to write this, as I’ve been a Batman fan since I could first remember, but this movie is borderline unwatchable. Everything from the script, to the way it’s shot/edited, leaves one wondering what the Hell everybody involved with it was thinking, as it was being made.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

05/26/23

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Chet M

Unbearable. Not recommended!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/15/25

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Michael A

This past summer, I finally found the courage to watch the film in its entirety. In 1997, I walked out of the theater. it's bloated, corny, devilishly loud, and inexplicably marred with so much nonsensical colored light and steam, I lost track of Batman. It's not so much that I can't see what the director was trying to do. It's more that the director goes through unnecessary steps to attain the goal, and it feels really messy. Maybe a page out of Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy is something he should have looked at.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/11/25

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Audience Member

It is a nostalgic movie where Arnold is Mr freeze and George Clooney is Batman it has bane Mr freeze and poison ivy for the villains and robin batman Alfred and batgirl

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/04/25

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Paul S

Just when I thought they couldn't get any worse than Batman Forever, they managed to wow me. This movie is so aggravating and horrible that whenever someone brings up this movie to me, I engage in a rant about everything that is wrong with it. Why anyone agreed to be a part of this is baffling to me, and I pray for the day this movie is taken out of circulation and made unavailable to the public.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/26/25

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Brad S. R

An oddly watchable train wreck.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/24/25

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Synopsis

This superhero adventure finds Batman (George Clooney) and his partner, Robin (Chris O'Donnell), attempting to the foil the sinister schemes of a deranged set of new villains, most notably the melancholy Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger), who wants to make Gotham into an arctic region, and the sultry Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman), a plant-loving femme fatale. As the Dynamic Duo contends with these bad guys, a third hero, Batgirl (Alicia Silverstone), joins the ranks of the city's crime-fighters.

Director: Joel Schumacher
Producer: Peter Macgregor-Scott
Screenwriter: Akiva Goldsman, Bob Kane
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: Warner Bros., PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Rating: PG-13 (Strong Stylized Action|Some Innuendo)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 20, 1997, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 31, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $107.3M
Runtime: 2h 10m
Sound Mix: Dolby SR, DTS, Dolby Stereo, Surround, SDDS, Dolby A, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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