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Nolan is no longer in charge, but his successor, Matt Reeves, is picking up where he left off: This weekend, the director’s The Batman arrives in theaters, and it stars Robert Pattinson as what’s been dubbed “Emo Batman.” Over the next two installments, Nolan would wring every last bit of camp and wonder from the Caped Crusader-and while that resulted in one of the best superhero movies of all time in The Dark Knight, it ignored the lighthearted parts of the franchise that had been a hallmark for decades. In 2005, Christopher Nolan’s aggressively realistic and murky Batman Begins resurrected the franchise after Joel Schumacher’s Batman & Robin sent her to IP purgatory eight years earlier. In retrospect, the dialogue feels oddly meta. Naturally, this fails, inspiring one of the greatest villain monologues of all time: “You think darkness is your ally,” Hardy croaks. On the verge of defeat, Christian Bale’s Batman turns off the lights as if this will be the gambit that saves him. In 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises, Tom Hardy’s Bane can’t help but chuckle as Batman catches the terrorist’s fade. It’s memorable for all the wrong reasons, leaving you either laughing or shaking your head.Perhaps the greatest critical evaluation of present-day Batman unintentionally occurs while a villain is kicking his ass.

In almost every way, Batman & Robin is a disappointment, barely cobbling together a cohesive story.

The action scenes deliver some mindless and occasionally comedic enjoyment, but even then, it comes with a barrage of underwhelming special effects and awkward sound design. The story itself is convoluted, often illogical, and packed with annoying characters.īy completely abandoning the franchise’s darker and more serious themes with a script full of puns and sexual innuendos, Batman & Robin loses all of the charm that the series once had.

Overall, Batman & Robin tries its best to pay homage to the sillier elements of the Adam West-era Batman series, but it falls flat. Where other superhero movies manage to balance the realism of everyday life with surreal heroics, Batman & Robin completely jumps the shark. The ridiculous script and wooden acting from most of the cast make things even worse.