A BATMAN CREDIT CARD?!?! Reacting to "Batman and Robin" - Nostalgia Critic 

Fun facts about this movie: -The director, Joel Schumacher, made an apology for making the movie on the DVD commentary. "It was like I murdered a baby" -George Clooney apologized for playing Batman multiple times since the movie was released, and once said "I think we might've killed the franchise" -This movie was nominated for almost every Razzie award that year (award for terrible movies), and even won a Razzie for "Worst Supporting Actress", which was Alicia Silverstone as Batgirl. -Kevin Feige, the president of Marvel Studios, called this movie "so bad that it demanded a new way of doing things", and he was right because after this movie, the "Holy Trinity" of comic book movies were released: Blade, X-Men, and Spiderman. The age of Superman and Batman were over, and Marvel basically took over ever since.

Fun fact, on batman’s credit card it says it lasts through forever as a reference to the previous film Batman Forever.

8:36 Fun fact: that's supposed to be Bane, a character known for being both a physical powerhouse and a mastermind. In this he's a brute incapable of speech.

He didn't use the cure on his wife because her disease was stage four, Alfred's was only stage 2.

Not only Jim Carrey, but Tommy Lee Jones as well was in Batman Forever. He played Two Face.

19:00 - The animated sequence is from the original Mary Poppins movie; it's from the segment where they jumped into the chalk drawing on the sidewalk.

The Bat-Credit Card gets brought up several times, especially during crossovers with Linkara, a comic reviewer. The last time it gets brought up, Linkara explains exactly how much sense a Bat-Credit Card actually makes (hint, it makes more sense than it should)

The Bat Credit Card became a running gag for years in his reviews. It was killed once and for all by another reviewer, Linkara--then still on That Guy With the Glasses/Channel Awesome--in a review of the comic adaptation of the movie, explaining how much sense it made strait to NC's face.

Since it seems we're going in decsending order of NC's Batman reviews, my guess is the next reaction will be *Batman Forever*

Yes the one Batman movie so bad that even the people involved, including director the late Joel Schumacher, admitted it was bad. Side note, I always feel bad for Schumacher regarding this film. He's made good movies, and from what I heard was a nice guy, but this production did him no favors. WB made him spearhead this movie immediately after the commercial success previous movie, Batman Forever, and told him to fast-track production so it would release a mere two years later. This means he had to get the movie written, casted, re-casted because the previous Batman Val Kilmer left and was also difficult on set, filmed, and edited all within one year. If that wasn't bad enough, toy companies were also involved with the production design in order to make it more 'toyetic' and therefore marketable for toy commercials. With all these factors, can we really be surprised that it's as bad as it is? Hell, I'm surprised the movie was even finished. Lastly as to answer your question about live-action Batman actors in movies we have... -Adam West: Batman the movie (1966) -Michael Keaton: Batman (1989) and Batman Return (1992) -Val Kilmer: Batman Forever (1995) -George Clooney: Batman & Robin (1997) -Christian Bale: Batman Begins (2005) The Dark Knight (2008) The Dark Knight Rises (2012) -Ben Affleck: Batman v Superman (2016) Suicide Squad (2016) both Justice League (2017) and JL Snyder Cut (2021) and Robert Pattinson: The Batman (2022)

2:20 - The NC actually Developed a Form of Respect for Joel Schumacher over the years

One of my favorite classic NC reviews! Very nice, Duck!

13:44 Wow, who would’ve guess that a woman named “Poison Ivy” could be so toxic?

Since you watched this one you have to watch Nostalgia Critic’s Batman Forever review

The ending song was from Mary Poppins. The Mary Poppins movie was live action but it had a large animation sequence with penguins and musicians. If you had a choice between Mary Poppins or Batman and Robin, go with the Disney classic.

16:33 Only thing I like about this movie tbh the depiction of Gotham City and the really cool retro style Police Cars giving Gotham this timeless look and feel.

You need to check out all three top 11nostalgia critic f***k ups

Kyle, PLEASE react to Nostalgia Critic's review of *Fox Kids* next. It's a great, long requested review of 1 of the best Saturday Morning cartoon blocks ever.

Now I love the Nostalgia Critic, and his videos are funny, but to quote Linkara " What is so ridiculous and anger-inducing about a bat credit card "

Batman and Robin won awards for Worst Supporting Actress-Alicia Silverstone, twice. Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Director-Joel Schumacher.

XD I saw this movie a LONG time ago. I will not again. I was fine, but my dad was sighing the whole time. I know as the undying nerd I am now, I’ll probably feel EXACTLY like Nostalgia Critic does. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to take notes on each character arc and tell you how well every cliche and one liner fit well together. (You couldn’t pay me, and not even with a bat credit card to do it.)

No, they didn't get a sequel from this, even if they wanted to set it up for one. While it did technically make money, it fell short of double the budget, which a film needs to be considered successful. The three films before it made over triple. It pretty much killed the Burton/Schumacher series and we didn't get another live action Batman film until the Nolan trilogy eight years later, which wasn't as big of a gap as I thought. For the most part Adam West was the only one to portray Batman in a live action TV series. That said other actors played in here and there in other DC live action shows, such as bits and pieces in the Batwoman TV series, but we didn't get a good look at him until Batwoman when to an alternate universe to find a version of him played by the late great Kevin Conroy. It looks like he appeared in Titans, but I never saw that. Generally speaking live action TV shows avoid showing Batman. In Smallville they gave jobs normally done by Batman to Green Arrow, another wealthy vigilante with a host of gadgets. Kevin Conroy is the actor who died recently. He has played Batman more times than any other actor, albeit in animation and video games until the Batwoman episode I mentioned above. I will miss him.

5:34 That line was from an animated SNL skit the title kinda speaks for itself In his then yearly top 10 fuck-ups video where he goes over things that the commentors told him he got wrong or when he crossed the line he explains that in the movie Batman found out that Mr. Freeze had found a cure for when the disease his wife had wasn't as bad and that's what he gave to Batman to give to Alfred.

Anyway, you said you want to do the Nostalgia Critic Batman movies in release order (good); I suggest however to add also his "Batman Old vs. New", "Top 11 Batman the Animated Series episodes" "Was Batman Season 4 Hit or Miss" and "Is This the best Joker Death?" (the last three in this order, mind you)

20:37, My good man, you'll be relieved to know that "Batman & Robin" did indeed lose money for the studio and Doug's statement about the film being a big Bat-Bomb was entirely correct. A $238 million box office gross against a $125 million production budget might seem okay at first glance, but we need to understand these numbers a bit better: First, roughly half of that cash earned does not go to the studio. It goes to the movie theaters that are commissioned to house the movie on the studio's behalf. Movie theaters need to make a profit too. Already, that leaves the gross money for "Batman & Robin" down to $114 million, which already means it failed to recuperate its production costs. This is why it is generally accepted that a movie needs to make back at least twice its budget in order to break even for the studio. But then there's the second thing to remember: the production budget numbers do not include the amount of money the studio paid to market and advertise the movie. The marketing budgets for most movies are not that well-documented, but we DO know the one for "Batman & Robin." Warner Bros. spent $125 million more to advertise that movie, as it was intended as a mass summer blockbuster. So, in the most conservative estimate for how bad this movie failed, we are looking at a net loss of at least $136 million for Warner Bros. Pictures. A Bat-Bomb indeed!

The last time The Bat-Credit Card was brought up was in the Christmas with the Kranks review which you have reviewed. So it was the Actress who played as Batwoman was the one who won the awards for this movie. A Kids Choice Award, Blimp Award for “Favorite Movie Actress.” A Razzie Award for “Worst Supporting Actress.” A Stinker Award for “Worst Supporting Actress.” And a Yoga Award “Worst Foreign Actress.”

There is not an animated Marry Poppins movie, that is an animated section IN Marry Poppins.

Finally, this legendary review.

Honestly that was quite the overreaction to the bat credit card. It does seem like something he would logically have in case he needed money in the field. I'm he did some leg work to prevent it from being traced to him. I'm reminded of the time he bought coffee in the Justice League cartoon, though he paid cash for that. I can't think of a reason for the bat nipples though. There was a lot of stuff to question about this film, but I don't think the card was one of them.

1997 was truly the worst year for comic book movies considering that not only did B&R flop at the box office but Spawn suffered the same fate. No offense to Schumacher but this is his worst movie ever. I’d say that his best is Falling Down circa 1993 starring Michael Douglas (Wall Street, Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction, and The Game).

No mention of the thing that stands out to me as the worst part, the horrible alteration they did to the character of Bane. Bane was so bad in this movie.

Check out nostalgia critic next top 11 f ups, it's revealed Mr Freeze can cure someone with earlier version of the disease that Alfred has. Freeze's wife had a later stage

I’d say what ticked me off most about this movie is that they had the freaking balls to make Bane, one of Batman’s most dangerous foes look like a buffed up joke. In the animated series and comics he was deadly and even pretty darn smart. He’s the one who broke Batman’s back so to go from that to THIS is insulting.

I recommend Pinocchio a true story from the nostalgia critic

Batman and Robin is the end result of overcorrection. After the 1989 Batman movie proved you could make a successful superhero movie that can appeal to older audiences, WB gave free reign to its director, Tim Burton to make a sequel. The end result, Batman Returns, was dark, gritty and esoteric to the point where parents didn't want to take their kids to see it even though WB was marketing it to all ages. So, they fired Burton, hired Joel Schumacher and had him direct Batman Forever. It was more kid-friendly and marketable, but it still had a little bit of edge and it was hugely successful, so they decided that Batman and Robin should be even more kid-friendly and marketable and sand off all the edge.

It's not THAT painful... but... I'd be lying by saying "this didn't killed the Batman Burton/Schumacher-verse". It's a pity, the fifth one had potential. I'd wish some horrible movie would get a revival sequel just to see stuff like Batman Unchained or the Super Mario Bros. 2 live action movie.

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10:47 Consider the process, traceability, and stupidity of Batman carrying around a credit card. 1. Who's name is on the card? 2. Is this money coming out of Bruce's bank account? 3. Is Bruce leaching this money from his company? 4. Does Batman have a bank account? 5. Is Bruce transferring money to this superhero's bank account? 6. is this money traceable? 7. Can this card even legally be used if it has Batman's name on it? 8. Does the IRS know about this? The whole concept is just dumb. Batman in the animated series was fighting a guy who could enter his mind when he is asleep, so he drove up to a Starbucks at 3am to get a coffee since he had been awake for days while looking for this guy. He did not pay with a BAT CREDIT CARD, he paid with CASH. Sanitized, fingerprint scrubbed, not from his account bills. Not even 10s or 20s. Just 1s. That is how you keep a secret identity!

‘Batman is rich. He is rich and has funnelled that money into his crime fighting enterprises through shell companies and false identities. And being someone who prepares for multiple eventualities, as demonstrated in both comics and TV, wherein he’s actually utilising his money to solve a situation, or bought something he wouldn’t normally carry with him, which would include say, diapers for a rescued baby, or coffee to keep himself awake, plus his tendencies to accessorise his crime fighting tools to fit his motif, from something understandable like a fearsome vehicle, to something silly like his projectiles resembling a bat, and the aforementioned shell companies to acquire items, what exactly is so ridiculous and anger inducing about a Bat Credit Card?!’ Linkara.

@theduckgoesmoo At 5:30 you were confused, this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0pzafzFxy1g.html will explain. This was one of many cartoons Saturday Night Live ran that delved into the, relationship, between Batman and Robin.

For no real reason I'd like the next NC review to be NC's first review of Sonic the Hedgehog (unless you have like 59 mins in which case his Toonami review) he actually had two reviews of Sonic the first was on the first two Sonic TV shows the second review was about a 1999 Sonic OVA from Japan that came out.

17:19 Freeze only found a cure for the first stages of his wife's disease. And Alfred just happened to be in the first stages of the disease.

You should check out the compilation of "Bat Credit Card." On both the show and in real life, people trigger Nostalgia Critic by either saying Bat Credit Card or by giving him an actual Bat Credit Card. On the show he'd scream "A BAT CREDIT CARD?!?! I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU ALL!!!" while firing multiple rounds from his gun. And at comicon events, when someone mentions it, he screams "A BAT CREDIT CARD?!?!" and proceeds to chase them; pretending to beat the crap out of them if he catches them.

i believe batman originated in the 30s

ah the ancient times. Back when "That guy with the glasses" was still a team of content providers. People like spoony, linkara, and my favorite Diamanda Hagan. This was back before he had people helping him, where it was just him and a whiteish wall.

This is a movie that came out when I was little. Not knowing better, I enjoyed the bright colors and action, but as soon as I got even a little older I saw it for the turd it was.

Duckgoesmoo. Tim Burton had a dark but awesome mind and art style. Check out Beetlejuice, Sweeney Todd, Edward Scissorhands, and Nightmare Before Christmas Sweeney Todd and Edward Scissorhands are with Johnny Depp.

10:45 - 10:52 That's actually what Doug wants someone to do at his Funeral.

The first batman comic was made in May 1939 Detective comics no. 27.

There is an explanation for the cure at the end. His wife had a more advanced version of the disease, and he managed to cure Alfred's version which is simpler, but not his wife's. Why he just carries two vials of that cure which is useless to him securely in his evil ice suit? Ehhhhhhhughhaaa dunno.

The batman comics date back to early 1939. Many major comic book heroes that you know of originated from this time period. Captain America, Superman, batman, etc. and yes, all of them fought the Nazis around that time except maybe Batman (not sure if batman fought the Nazis in comics published during WW2). Most of the characters in the Avengers were created around 1962-1968 though.

17:29 Because the the cure Freeze made only works for the earlier stages of the disease, which Alfred is in. Freeze's wife has already progressed to the late stage.

Hmm, since we tend to BS a bit, figured I'd share this fun fact with you Duck... When this movie was in theaters, they had a tie-in promotion with Amoco gas stations and Maglite where so many fill-ups of premium fuel would let you redeem a coupon for a Batman Maglite set. After the promotion, the signs they had up for it were typically dumpstered, as they had been sitting outside atop the pumps for weeks. Well, where I lived, we were having mild weather and the signs were in pretty good condition still - we were at the station when they were taking them down and 12-year old me asked if I could keep them. Still have them, they're rare as hell, it's justa shame the movie sucked! Oh, and to answer your question about how long Batman has been around - 1939, Detective Comics #27. Also, you hurt my soul by saying you think of Ben Affleck when you think of Batman...

10:25 bat credit card

Oh boy, one of Doug’s most famous rants! Prep those Bat-Credit cards!

You got to watch NCs Rocky and Bullwinkle review. Super underrated and one of my favorites

Critic- "...no kids ever seen this movie..." My younger self disagrees with you Critic. Yep, I watched this movie as a youngster which gives reason to why I don't hate it like most people.

You should watch his review to Superman 4! Just as funny as this one!

Also Joel Schumacher said he apologise for it

This was the first batman movie I saw as a kid and I actually liked it. Even after all the valid criticism in this video I still don't hate it.

You wanna know whats really sad? This was my very first batman experience!

Probably no need but just in case... Batwoman and Batgirl are two different characters...

Nostalgia critic's reaction to the bat credit card 😂😂😂💳 🦇

Batman and Robin is one of those so bad it's good movies IMO. The whole Bat credit card thing is hilarious for all the wrong reasons. So are all the ice puns from Mr. Freeze. The movie is basically a comedy, even though that wasn't the intent.

7:35 - For next Week I recommend "Batman vs Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Nostalgia Critic"

My personal favorite Batman is Kevin Conroy, but unfortunately he is also dead now.

Walter (the guy that played zack snyder in the Batman v superman review) and dougs brother rob have a side project called fanscription where they take certain movies and present alternative ideas examples like “What if apollo creed wasn’t killed in rocky 4” “what if hawkeye died in avengers endgame instead of black widow” “what if venom wasn’t show horned into spiderman 3 etc and the whole NC cast acts out the scenarios For the past couple of years they’ve been working on a version of the 89s Batman universe where tim burton never left In the 1989 batman film burton made Billy Dee Williams (who played Lando Calrissian in Star Wars) made a brief cameo as a character named Harvey Dent known in the batman comics for suffering a brutal accident at the hands of a criminal (the identity of whom depends on the iteration) affecting his brain and transforming him into the schizophrenic villain Two-Face Two-Face would become a secondary antagonist alongside the previously mentioned by doug jim carrey riddler in batman forever but he was played by tommy lee Jones (who acted alongside Will smith in the men in black films) who took an entirely different approach to the role and it almost seems forgotten that Williams ever appeared in the role This episode of fanscription written by Rob was a hypothetical scenario to fit things in more organically m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Glzo9waqn-Y.html Now we get into the alternate movies where burton never left as they followed this up with a sequel “What if Tim Burton directed Batman Forever featuring not only the twoface THEY created but a different darker take on the riddler compared to jim carreys as well m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sA1WU-9UVxw.html This went over so well that the team is now on the cusp of their most ambitious fanscription project yet What if Tim Burton directed Batman and Robin They took this to so much detail its being split into 3 full length parts Part 1 m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tcDMeZ8RS4g.html Part 2 m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IEwF-f0yEAY.html Walter is editing part 3 as we speak and it will be coming by the end of this month Heres a playlist list of all the other fanscriptions if you like those…which you should m.ru-vid.com/group/PL0AQIMR-tpomLKQJknOapmFncdOYVlWHw Oh and heres the hawkeye one it got lost in the playlist for some reason m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PXKl4qEd6qw.html The series runs MOSTLY monthly unless they’re doing a really big one like these batman ones those aren’t the norm 😂

This entire movie can be summarized with the phrase TO THE IDIOT-MOBILE

Like the Batman Forever Movie more, for obvious reasons (anything is better than this Movie. In the Batman Francise that is). After the Batman Reviews, how about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Movies?

i.... have this film on vhs

You need to watch the Nostalgia Critic F-ups video.

Adam West, Michael Keaton, George Clooney, Ben Aflec, Christian Bale, and that's just the live action versions. There's a slew more in the animated verisons. The Batman, Batmant the animated series, Batman Beyond with a successor batman, Scooby Doo meets batman and robin (Yes, they did this a few times) There are too many to count and name, and yest I know I left out the batman, the recent live action batman in there, mostly becuase I couldn't be bothered to look it up right now. It's like trying to watch all the star wars movies and shows, or even Star Trek. There's a shit ton of both.

in one of mistake videos he does cover the fact that his wife's disease was in a later stage, but alfred's was early the cure he found was only for early stages

To be honest, a Bat credit card isn't even that bad of an idea. It'd be really stupid for Batman to use Bruce Wayne's credit card because they can easily trace who he is through purchases.

Thank you tom hardy for redeeming bane in the dark knight rises also the bane in the harley quinn show is also very good

Can u do Batman forever

One thing I’ll say about this review is… NC back then was a lot more hostile than he is these days. Quite immature. The scene with Bruce and Alfred is where it comes through cause Alfred freaking raised Bruce, no wonder they love each other, they’re practically father and son and then Bruce finds out Alfred is dying? Yeah there’s gonna be some emotion there and it’s the best time to show it when you see a loved one go through the pain of dying by illness. I know I’m ranting but it kinda pissed me off to see Critic do that.

- This is one of the earliest reviews. Came out in 2008 - The "Mexican Wrestler" is actually Bane - There's 7 live action Batman. Adam West, Michelle Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale Ben Affleck and Robert Paterson - Now you've seen the worst Batman, check out Superman 4. The worst Superman

09:55 Wait, so you actually watched "The year without a Santa Claus"? Or did you see a review of it? 10:33 One of the most iconic Nostalgia Critic moments...too bad like a lot of popular moments, people kept over-quoting it and asking him to do the line way too much to the point where it got annoying and overplayed.

I definitely think you should check out NC's review on Superman IV next. It's basically the Batman and Robin of the Superman franchise.

This was the first Batman movie I ever saw and I still love it, its what even got me into batman and superhero stuff at all

This stopped any Batman movies for a good while till Christian Bale's Batman trilogy came out

Also you never saw the other tim burton movies, you missing a real treat.

Batman has been around since the early days. The original comic came out in 1939

Honestly this movie is a guilty pleasure for me. Heck I would watch this more times than Batman v Superman. Also Linkara killed the Bat credit card joke as he pointed out that Batman can make up shell companies to avoid fraud.

To answer your question Batman was created in 1939.

9:23 🤣

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Another review of this film that's just as funny if not more so is the one by Chris Stuckmann and John Flickingjer of "The Flick Pick". And the funniest part of it was how John talks about the opening shots of the close-ups on their asses as they dress up. He says and I quote _"Let's say you've never seen this movie- you're a little bit excited and a little bit scared- and what's the first thing you see? Rubberized man-asses, close-ups. That's what sets the tone of the movie. Close-ups on man-asses. Thanks, Joel Schumacher. You really set the tone of the movie. And the tone is "ASS"!"_

Wait you are 11 months older than me

I actually unironically love this movie. Is it bad? Yes, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I love the cheese, the camp, and yes even the card.

You need to react to the Channel Awesome movies at some point; these are canon(channel continuity wise) film projects created by the content creaters of Channel Awesome themselves. In order, they are "Kickassia", "Suburban Knights" and "To Boldly Flee".

Batman is rich

B I R D B O Y

Just take a moment to realise how crazy it is arnold schwarzenegger went from playing this depiction of mr freeze to becoming the governor of callifornia just a few years after =P

According to wikipedia Batman was created back in 1939. In the 60's there was an iconic and very campy tv show starring Adam West (he was on Family Guy as the mayor for several seasons),

What's funny I remember watching this movie on Cartoon Network and I remember all the puns "Alright everybody CHILL"

If you want to see Critic freak out again, watch Never Ending Story 3 review.

hey man. I'd watch this over that pattinson _trash_ again. At least it's _fun...._ making a drinking game out of it, drink every time somone makes a bad pun (you'd be smashed 15 minutes in, LOL)

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