Camp in the spirit of the TV series

maharani_md

Critics can't take a joke, obviously.  This is campy good fun in the tradition of the old Adam West TV series.  Okay, so Clooney was a stiff Batman - he was SUPPOSED to be.  Chris O'Donnell was cute as a button as Robin -- "Rubber Lips" is my favorite line of the entire movie.  Thurman practically steals the film as Poison Ivy until Alicia Siverstone trumps her as the all-feminist Batgirl.  A few gags don;t work but so many of them do -- I cannot believe the flak this funny, camp outing got from so many people.  If you want a movie to complain about see Nicole Kidman singlehandedly ruin the Peacemaker or see Eyes Wide Shut -- a horrible valedictory for Kubrick, but Batman and Robin -- one of the worst movies of all time !!!???!! That statement makes me laugh -- but not as much as all the good chuckles I got from the film.

score 9/10

maharani_md 18 July 2000

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