BATMAN & ROBIN (1997): Awfully Good Movies 

Honestly as a sequel to the '66 movie and series, this works pretty well. The vivid colors, the dutch angles, celebrity villain casting and overall cheesy tone. I think this movie accomplished what it was going for, the problem is that it wasn't what audiences were wanting.

Joel Schumacher made some truly awesome films. Tigerland, Falling Down, The Client, A Time To Kill, Flatliners, Phone Booth, 8mm.

"A sultry, plant-based seductress." Exceptional writing and delivery throughout this episode, Jesse.

I was 5 when this movie came out. My dad took me late at night to see it one night. The fact that he took me out late to see a movie already made the experience awesome, I loved the movie haha. RIP dad, I love you. I haven't seen it since, but it is definitely interesting as an adult to see the differences in a Batman film directed by a very flamboyant gay man. He loved the batnipples, there isn't a single other Batman director that I could imagine even thinking of something like that hahaha. I need to watch it again, it still looks cooler than people give it credit for. The use of color and lighting was great. Also, RIP Joel.

When this movie came out, I loved it for nothing else but simply being a Batman movie (I had no standards as a kid), but as an adult, this is the movie that introduced “it’s so bad, it’s actually good” to me lol

Don't hate Joel Schumacher just because he broke his rule of not making sequels He deeply regreted that decision

“What killed the dinosaurs? The Ice Age!” My god that line still haunts me 🤦🏽‍♂️

That ending shot of them running to the camera is still awesome.

"just couple of guys wearing leather hanging out in a cave" joel schumacher's best quote on the Blu-ray commentary track, and explains everything about Batman and Robins relationship

I actually quite like this movie🤣 I know it's awful and super cheesy but it's such a guilty pleasure🙃

Coolio as Scarecrow is something I never thought I would want to see, but at the same time, not want to see.

I remember on the DVD commentary, Joel Schumacher said his original intention with the nipples was to have the suits resemble statues of Greek gods. Boy is that not how audiences interpreted it.

One of the greatest quotes in world history "Never trust a big butt and a smile. " Socrates couldn't think that deep.

“With Batman Forever, I I felt like I was making a movie. With Batman and Robin, I felt like I was making a toy commercial.” - Chris o Donnel

I still unironically feel that Clooney is the best Bruce Wayne. At least the billionaire playboy exterior version that the world sees.

Perfect timing. I've been showing my friend the Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher Batman movies for his first time. Showing him Batman & Robin last night. He actually liked Batman Forever more than Tim Burton's two movies, due to how goofy it was and Schumacher put more focus on Batman than Burton did. He's gonna have an absolute ball watching this.

The diamond thing is actually clever. Diamonds are nicknamed “ice” by gangsters because an easy way to tell if a diamond is fake is by touching it to your lip. If it’s cold, it could be a diamond due to its high heat conductivity. Putting a diamond to your lip feels a lot colder than a cubic zirconia. It’s like how rocks always feel cold to the touch. It absorbs your heat. Hence “ice”. They needed to give a criminal something criminal to do so diamonds was actually pretty clever. (Obviously there are smarter ways to tell it’s a fake, but they’re gangsters so..)

I absolutely loved Batman Forever, and still think it's great! I'll never forget watching it as a kid in the theater, and how excited I was to see their awesome new suits in the end and the three vehicles they use to assault Two-Face and The Riddler. The only Batman movie that I liked more was (obviously) The Dark Knight.

I don't care what anyone says.... I love Batman & Robin!

The thing I've learned about the Batman universe is never touch any toxic chemicals ever. It will always turn you into a villain.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I liked George Clooney as Wayne/Batman a hell of a lot more than I did Val Kilmer’s. Not a great movie by any standard, but Clooney’s Batman I did enjoy. Way too many puns and bad jokes though even for me. Val was legendary in that movie Top Secret though. So funny.

Graham Norton: So you're apologizing for _Batman and Robin?_ George Clooney: I always apologize for _Batman and Robin!_

Great video, Jesse. I was laughing the entire time. I love your references and the editing!

Holy shit. I've lived to see the day when Joblo recognizes Jesse Ventura in a scene, but not Ralf Moeller, arguably the second best Conan The Barbarian after Arnold. Damn, so disappointed. Not to mention he currently plays Poseidon in the BMW commercials, opposite Arnold as Zeus.

I am okay with the campy tone, but there are several problems with the movie. 1. Tonal issues between being an homage to the 60s show and being a continuation of the 90s series. Mr. Freeze’s backstory about his wife’s disease conflicts with his portrayal being like the 60s Mr. Freeze. The campy parts conflict with the Alfred plot. 2. George Clooney is a bad Batman. He doesn’t act any different when he’s Bruce Wayne and Batman. Adam West did have a slight performance change between the two roles, even though it wasn’t as much as Michael Keaton or Val Kilmer. 3. Robin is annoying. He’s more annoying than in Batman Forever, where he was more tolerable and had an arc that this movie threw away. 4. The fight scenes are bad and wirework is very obvious.

Arnold’s face on the thumbnail makes the video even funnier. It goes really well with the Awfully Good tagline. 😂

I hope Uma gets her spotlight as poison ivy once again, she was incredible.

That Keenan and Kel Scarecrow bit took me out😹😹

I actually enjoyed this movie even though it is cheesy.

i have always liked this flick….. then again, I have always liked over the top camp…. Which the 90’s was full of…. Unfortunately Pop Culture RU-vidrs went all “OMG NIPPLES”….

Awfully good movies is perfect for ganja time….

For the love of God.... learn to use the normalize option for your video audio. One scene is a quiet voice ..then then next its a BLARING cut to a clip from a random movie for the segment joke.

Considering that the director is a flamboyant homosexual, it makes sense to me why the movie turned out the way it did. Sure it's super silly, but it's completely marketed and made for children, so you can't say that it missed the mark; countless movies made these days can't even do that, studios insist on interfering and just end up crapping out unfocused turds like Batman v Superman. So props to Schumacher for sticking to his guns and delivering consistency.

This movie is great. A perfect send up to the silver age of comics. Love this movie.

I still love this movie. Mostly because it's so hilarious in it's tone. The fireside chats between Bruce and Alfred are awesome. Plus, the physical sets are gorgeous to look at. No CGI backdrops, mostly.

The favorite part of this movie is when Bruce Wayne had that heart-to-heart talk with Alfred. And Bruce Wayne asked Alfred did he ever feel bad about working for the Wayans. And Alfred said no the guardian of Heroes, Alfred said my only regret is I never could be out there with you.

You have a new subscriber bro 😎 Great vid ! I’m glad I’m not the only one that feels the same about B&R It might not be great but it’s good in its own way , it keeps you entertained and plus its childhood 😊

I'm a big fan of the Schumacher movies, and it always bums me out to know that a huge majority of people completely disregard them due to their surreal and campy nature. I believe we need more Batman media like this, the closest we got was the brave & the bold cartoon, and those batman 1966 throwback movies.

I still enjoy this film as much as I did when I first watched it. Maybe even more.

hey Jesse, before that Tyler Perry's A Madea Homecoming on Netflix. are you going review Perry where he star and also he didn't direct, where he took over the role where he was played by Morgan Freeman in Alex Cross.

The 4K Blu-ray is incredible on this film you wouldn't know it was made 25 years ago, about the film itself yeah its corny and Clooney is basically playing dress-up as Batman but Arnold is having a blast you can tell.

Keep JJ away from batman, in any form

"Batman & Robin: Awfully Awful movies." There, I fixed the title for you. 😆

as a kid i loved this but then i grew up and realized how bad this truly was hahaha. the bat nipples???? classic

Uma Thurman’s sexiness is the only good thing about this movie. She’s soooooooooo hot in this

Okay. I don't hate Batman and Robin. I loved and still love Batman Forever. Batman Forever was great. I really liked what Joel Schumacher did with Batman Forever. Although Batman Forever was more like a comic book and Jim Carrey providing comic relief as The Riddler, it was still a very dark movie due to Bruce Wayne's PTSD and being haunted by his parent's murder. Two-Face murdering Dick Greyson's family and Dick Grayson desiring revenge on Two-Face. Batman and Robin was good, but it wasn't great and I don't think it was as good as Batman Forever. I think the problem with Batman and Robin is that they really carried away with it and it was done too much like the 1960s TV series starring Adam West and it lacked the darker aspects and elements of the mythology of Batman. Batman and Robin felt more like a comedy and it didn't take itself too seriously and it was more kid friendly. George Clooney was miscast as Batman/Bruce Wayne and he was a terrible choice. Chris O'Donnell was good again as Robin/Dick Grayson. Arnold Schwarzenegger was great as Mr. Freeze. But, it would had been good if Schwarzenegger's Mr. Freeze was more darker and sinister like The Terminator and Schwarzenegger's Mr. Freeze was more a anti-villain and a sympathetic character. Alicia Silverstone did a good job playing Barbara Wilson/Batgirl. However, it didn't make sense that she was Alfred's niece and she should had a British accent. But, they should had kept Batgirl as Commissioner Gordon's daughter. Uma Thurman did the best she could as Poison Ivy and with what she had to work with and she was sexy as Poison Ivy. The movie had some good action and some good CGI for it's time and I liked the end credits song "The End is the Beginning is the End" by The Smashing Pumpkins. It seems to me, Batman and Robin was a rushed production like Series 8 of Game of Thrones and it came out too soon after Batman and Forever and Warner Bros. should had left Batman and Robin for 3 - 4 years. There was things that could had been done with Batman and Robin. The franchise getting rebooted as Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy was a blessing and The Dark Knight was a massive blockbuster hit earning the late Heath Ledger an Oscar for his brilliant performance as The Joker. The 2nd reboot Batman VS. Superman: Dawn of Justice was pure shit and Justice League was no better. The upcoming 3rd Batman reboot - The Batman starring Twilight's Robert Pattinson looks really good and I think it could be the best Batman movie since The Dark Knight and hopefully better than Batman VS. Superman. I am beginning to think Batman and Robin was better than Batman VS. Superman. Batman and Robin wasn't a perfect film. But it's still entertaining despite it's problems and flaws and love it or hate it, Batman and Robin is a good movie and it's a film I come back to every now and then.

Oh dear God this film. Thanks Warner Brothers for killing your own franchise for nearly a decade. Thankfully Joel Schumacher still made good films after this & George Clooney’s film career didn’t get tanked; he’s had the biggest laugh on the foolishness of the film

This and The Dark Knight Rises are the only Batman films without Oscar nominations.

"This movie saves its worst villan for a cameo in the credits." Plays R. Kelly's song. Me: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I forgot about Bane in this lame movie. He looks like the creatures in "The Beastmaster". I really liked the TV show "Batman". This was an unsuccessful attempt to capture the tongue-in-cheek campiness. While Alicia did look hot in her Batgirl costume, she was no Julie Newmar as Catwoman.

One of my favorite Just The Jokes commentaries Rifftrax has done. "The iceman cometh!" "The audience goeth!"

The "Bebe's Kids" joke is priceless. Yet, I'd buy it for a dollar.

The original "Venom" storyline in the Legends of the Dark Knight comics was excellent. (no Bane, but lays the ground work)

Some men just want to watch the world freeze.

Unfortunately WB has not learned a damn thing from this massive bomb because decades later they would make several maligned movies that are too dependent on what came before or trying way too hard to be progressive and hip for the new generation, the studio executive and Joss Whedon interfered cut of Justice League, Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey and the one that REALLY got under my skin right next to Justice League (2017)…. Wonder Woman 1984. That film was acting like Batman and Robin 2.5, and had a lot of cliches like in that train wreck especially the infamous MacGuffin of the wishing stone… that film really disappointed me and it felt on par with this movie and Superman III. I hope the new guys at WB do a better job than the past regime.

At the time I didn't like it. I thought it was funny to watch and the writing was dumb. But now comparing it to the dark knight trilogy or batfleck or bobbertman I think it's a masterpiece. Inventive like the 66 TV show and golden age dick sprang stuff. Not a street brawling bulkhead fat suit, skinny suit battyman 😂😂❤

In addition to Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy and Bane, there's even a fourth lessor known supervillain this movie somehow managed to ruin. Jason Woodrue, aka the Floronic Man. Poor John Glover, you could've been somebody!😄

I was disappointed with Val Kilmer's Batman, but at least was able to watch all the way through. This one was so harsh on the eyes and lacking in interest for me I've never finished seeing it yet. But, I do think Clooney woukd've been a good DIFFERENT superhero (Green Hornet? The Question?). I mean he was doing the Marvel flippency before the MCU even was a thing.

Didn't know Robin said cowabunga. I'm really trying to find things I like about this. But I was a teenager really high on Arnold Schwarzeneggar movies at the time it came out and I've still never watched this turkey

This was an overcorrection when Batman Returns wasn’t a huge hit. Batman Forever was already an overcorrection and this took that to the next level. But in the 90s, that’s what people wanted. Pierce Brosnan’s 13 year old boy one liners in every PG-13 movie. It got really stupid really fast. I was so relieved when Daniel Craig showed up in 2006 and Batman got back on track the year before. At least try to suspend my disbelief.

For everyone who gripes about all Batman movies being dark and gritty and serious... they always complain about Schumacher's flicks, which are silly and lighthearted and stupid.

And the WB Bat movie people haven't touched Freeze or Ivy since lol, only on the embarrassingly bad sometimes good Gotham or Batwoman ....gee can't imagine why

Man I know the movie is super goofy, but I honestly have fond memories of watching this movie every weekend with my dad and having a blast with its cheesy script 😅😊 my dad was always a fan of Batman, so if we didn’t watch this or the other Batman Movie, we would watch the Animated Cartoon every Saturday morning ❤

Don’t bash the animated Batman vs TMNT film Jesse. Yeah I’ll let you slide on Space Jam 2 because I’m probably one of 20% of the population who likes that movie[and hasn’t been hypnotized into thinking Luca is a good movie] but Batman vs TMNT is fun as hell.

Y'know, if this movie was just slightly better or made slightly more money or didn't get Clooney clowned quite as hard, we'd have gotten the final installment of the Schumacher trilogy instead of the Nolan reboot. Yup. Schumacher is partially albeit unintentionally responsible for the Dark Knight. I assume the Schumacherverse would've ended with Bruce Wayne waking up in a cold sweat only to realize that it was aaaaaaall a dream.

Joel Shumacher got far more hate for this movie than he rightfully deserved. As a homage to the Adam West series in the style of Rocky Horror camp this movie would've worked perfectly as a stand alone film. Problem was WB and Shumacher misread their audience established by the original Burton films. They weren't the older adults who grew up with the 60's series, but were the younger generation that was introduced to Frank Miller's darker and more grounded graphic novels. But they wanted to sell their Happy Meal toys and decided to make the drastic tonal shift. It should've been treated as an offshoot, like the Lego Batman movies, and not a continuation of the main franchise.

This new doesn't know banes steroids from the comics actually called venom? But knows the 90s adult cartoon flop baybays kids!? 😅 what

Had it not been for the first two, and to a degree, the third in the series, it may.have been better received at the time. Frankly, Batman Forever was.a better film, and this one, like a bad foot fungus, does grow on you over time. I just never really liked the campy feeling of it, and frankly, Clloney as Watne, and the casting of Schwarzenegger as.freeze. way.to burly in noth roles, and just way.too much cheese for me. Don't get.me.wrong, I will.still sit and watch it, but not often.

The reason Batman and Robin is really cheesy stems from Batman Returns AND Warner Bros executives. To lure back Tim Burton Warner Bros executives told him make the sequel to Batman 89 a Tim Burton movie which he did. And then everyone complain it was to dark

this movie is probably my Biggest Guilty Pleasure!

I don't think it was entirely Schumacher's fault, he made exactly what the studio told him to make, They wanted a campy childrens toy commercial more in the style of the 1966 series, they said it needs to be "toyetic" and to have a lot of cool weapons, Batsuites and vehicles.

I never understood how they looked at what they wanted to make vs what they made as what the movie made. So, you make 150M after costs yet you wanted 300m . So you look at it as 150m lost and not 150m made. They stopped making movies witch is 0$ vs 700m they would have made vs only 225m they made 10 years later.

Just awful.

Not awfully good, just awful, in every way. The costumes and sets look like they were designed by a 4 year old, the acting is bad, and the action is poorly choreographed. If you add up all the pauses for the lame one liners it would add up to half the movies run time! The actors are lucky to have careers after this abomination. Schumacher is lucky he proves he is a good director for his many actually good movies.

16:45....OMG!!!! THANK YOU FOR FINALLY CALLING UMA OUT ON WHAT'S BEEN OBVIOUS THESE MANY YEARS!!!😘😘

Wait did you call it Ewan McGregor syndrome lol. And I honestly forgot Elle MacPherson was in this movie lastly this movie wasn't that bad plus the cast came out pretty unscathed

This Movie is the least watch in my VHS tapes as a kid and this is why. Batman Subzero was a better batman film and it's Animated and stays true to the Mr. Freeze character as well as having a conclusion to his arc from BatmanTAS.

This movie was teerrible. Batman Forever was great, If Schumacer had kept the same tone as forever , and only Arnold as the villain, it coulve been cool

Is around 1B not better than only 225m? Why not make something that makes a lot only due to it not making even more than a lot. Like old Star Treks movies which made 1B yet today would have made 0 as they would have not made them. They seem to want to bet on high rewards fast vs good strong income over 8 years.

When Batman Forever came out, I was still young enough to like anything that had superheroes and flashing lights. Somewhere between that movie and this one, I got old enough to develop... taste, I guess? I'm not convinced that was a good thing. Young & Dumb > Old & Cynical

Seeing if you could make your audio a little louder, I listen at work. Some channels can here fine but yours and some are a little low. Thanks.

I love this movie. As a young kid when it came out it was perfect. I never thought anything was wrong with this movie when people started trashing it online, and I still don't. Nostalgia overload. I had the toys, i was this Robin for Halloween that year and it had JIM CAREY! That's all I needed. And it's still awesome. This movie rocks.

It's not Robin and Batman. If they did a series starring Robin lawyers would prevent Bruce Wayne from suiting up.

Dinosaurs was an underrated show.

Pat Hingle and Michael Gough were G**DAMN treasures

Im so happy they didn't make that other Batman movie, and still wish we had gotten the third Burton film but alas there is always the 89 Batman comic ...... as late as it is to come out

In all fairness to the serial, Batman wasn't even ten years old yet as a character. The overhead projector bat signal though 😂😂😂

Every single time its you doing the reviews its extremely low volume . I watch this playlists when im trying to sleep. So as soon as your video is over and it goes to next it becomes super loud. Standardize the sound throughout.

It's definitely a bad movie but at least they knew they destroyed franchise of DC films.Until the next decade they did it right a little bit 🤔🧐🤥

Hahahaha. I think it's obvious that 2022 is going to be horrible. We have the midterms to look forward to, remember.

The only one whose career never recovered, unfortunately, is Alicia Silverstone, the one who had the last to do with this abomination. It's too bad, too. She deserved better.

I disagree so much with you, you straight up made me unsubscribe (: Have fun with garbage movies!

The movie is still preferable to the PS1 game Anyone who watched the Rerez episode on that should know

R.Kelly is a terrible person but Gotham City is a great song

I have always said Clooney made a great Bruce Wayne, but a terrible Batman. Val Kilmer made a better Batman but a really average Bruce Wayne

Very weird to me that you’d dump on this movie for not understanding the Batman characters and mythos, then go on to also rip it for Bane being powered by Venom. That is one of a number of things that are just directly from the comics.

I miss the onomatopoeia splashing on screen! Ka-Pow! Splat! Blam! Kaboom! Someone should make that edit

The fact that it's hard to tell where the movie ends and where the jokes begin (For a moment I thought the "red sticky goo phase" joke was part of the original film) tells you all you need to know about this mess.

It was a fun movie to watch.. I mean really if you can look at the Batman TV show from 1966 you can look at this

Bat nipples, Bat card, endless ice puns plus plenty of other corny dialogue. Despite what some people try to say, this movie was awful then and possibly more awful now. It's a modern miracle that this film franchise only stayed dead for 8 years.