Cast
Batman/Bruce Wayne - Val Kilmer
Robin/Dick Grayson - Chris O'Donnell
Alfred Pennyworth - Michael Gough
Two Face/Harvey Dent - Tommy Lee Jones
The Riddler/Dr Edward Nygma - Jim Carrey
Dr Chase Meridian - Nichole Kidman
Commissioner James Gordon - Pat Hingle
and Drew Barrymore as 'Sugar'
Robin/Dick Grayson - Chris O'Donnell
Alfred Pennyworth - Michael Gough
Two Face/Harvey Dent - Tommy Lee Jones
The Riddler/Dr Edward Nygma - Jim Carrey
Dr Chase Meridian - Nichole Kidman
Commissioner James Gordon - Pat Hingle
and Drew Barrymore as 'Sugar'
Director - Joel Schumacher
Writers - Lee Batchler (story & screenplay), Janet Scott Batchler (story & screenplay) & Akiva Goldsman (screenplay)
Starting with a bad gag is not a good sign.
ReplyDeleteBurton had established multiple villains - at least in Forever we're spared a drawn-out origin for Two Face.
ReplyDeleteShape up Kidman, we know you can do better....
ReplyDeleteThe police doing NOTHING to get people away from a building under attack.
ReplyDeleteShame Lando Calrissian never got to play Two Face - imagine he was got just before Batman Returns...
ReplyDeleteThe immediate shift in tone is so bizarre bearing in mind how well Returns did.
ReplyDeleteMassive amounts of primary colour lighting.
ReplyDeleteChrist...5 solid minutes of puns, mixed metaphors and innuendo.
ReplyDeleteAnd 3d TV!
ReplyDeleteIt's interestingly different to have a villian that's crazy from the start, not as a result of something that turns them crazy.
ReplyDeleteYes, but kind of odd that the whole Riddler stylings were already in Nygma’s possession – must have been a fan of the 60s TV series!
ReplyDeleteYou get a lot of Wayne for your buck at the beginning of this film – Kilmer’s quite good at it... But it does mean means they have to rediscover the anguish after he’s avenged his parents’ death. Cue Robin...
ReplyDeleteThey're really dragging in the Lois/Clark/Superman love triangle dynamic in here, kicking and screaming.
ReplyDeleteFor TLJ being Two Face is all about shouting really quickly.
ReplyDeleteToo quickly, on occassion.
DeleteIt's like he's trying to out Carrey Carrey. Shame cos he would have been awesome if he'd played it more serious.
DeleteFor the World's Greatest Detective he's pretty slow over the parallels between his and Dick's parents.
ReplyDeleteThe villains’ lair is probably the main consistent element across all we've been through so far. Two Face has done well!
ReplyDeleteThese riddles aren't nearly tenuous enough. Not even close.
ReplyDeleteBBC should have seen what happened to NygmaTech before they embarked on their 3d disaster.
ReplyDeleteAlfred really does seem to be the weak link in Bat-Security
ReplyDeleteNo!!! Bruce Wayne remembers his parents murder every day...it's why he's Batman!! Repressed memory my arse.
ReplyDeleteAlso "You're describing a repressed memory"...that doesn't even make sense.
DeleteWho'd have thought talking about the trauma of the death of your parents would be such an effective chat-up line?
ReplyDeleteDid the design team just come across a shedload of of neon paint and think, "yeah, that'll do"?
ReplyDeleteThe ridiculous earring renders the disguise a bit redundant.
ReplyDeleteCarrey's cain work isn't quite as impressive as Pfeiffer's whip work.
ReplyDeleteCarrey was given a lot of different Riddler costumes.
ReplyDeleteGratuitous flash of Kidman's arse, presumably to counter the unnecessary pan of Kilmer's in the new latex.
ReplyDeleteGood lord.
ReplyDeleteArkham arrives on film – a strange time for it to arrive. But at least one villain survived this time!
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