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I will defend Batman Forever with my dying breath.
It was just the right amount of pretentious, gothic, and campy. If you go in expecting a serious modern Batman movie, you're in for a bad time. As long as you go in expecting an absurd homage to the equally silly 60s show, mixed with a more modern self serious take, all of it straight-faced, you can enjoy it just fine. It's tonal whiplash but it's fun.
You got Jim Carrey in his prime, Tommy Lee Jones going full ham, both of them devouring every last inch of scenery. You got Nicole Kidman awakening something in every prepubescent boy, and a few girls too (and that's where we get the People's Joker from).
It also had the balls to give us a genuine attempt at Robin. Something the movies have been too chickenshit to do for nearly 30 years.
Now Batman and Robin...that's where they took it too far. The balance was way off, way too cartoonish, with nothing to counterbalance it. It's so painfully and obviously a toy commercial, in every way.
So many great bits in it too, I have always loved Riddler's crocodile tears over his boss's death only to snap out of it momentarily to give the most suss information possible lol
"I found this in my cubicle. You'll notice that the handwriting matches his exactly, as does sentence-structure and spelling...." Sobbing
LOL