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From Dark Knight to Boogie Knight., 31 August 2010
5/10
Author: dunmore_ego from Los Angeles, California

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

After Tim Burton gave us the brooding BATMAN (1989) and the dark-yet-kinda-silly BATMAN RETURNS, he relinquished the director's chair to Joel Schumacher, who promptly made Batman fruitier than Adam West.

In BATMAN FOREVER, the third installment in the Modern Batman Legacy, Val Kilmer is the fruit bat whom we cannot be sure is hero - or victim (of Schumacher).

Strangely, Kilmer seems to be the only person taking it all seriously, doing a magnificent brooding Batman and tormented Bruce Wayne. Yet everything and everyone around him is out to make this the stupidest Batman experience yet: sets dressed to fry our eyeballs with their colors, most of them looking like plastic leftovers from LOST IN SPACE, overacting on stir fry (Tommy Lee Jones and Nicole Kidman) and some guy who somehow passed the audition without any acting ability at all (Chris O'Donnell as Robin).

Tommy Lee Jones is Two Face, a villain with half his face fried off, and Kidman is a psychologist who could use a good psychologist for the way she openly pussy-drips after Batman for a taste of his rubbery leathür.

Besides Kilmer, one other beacon shines in this smarmy comicbook discotheque: Jim Carrey as The Riddler. Amidst the screaming colors and rainbow stupidity, Carrey's überacting almost steals the show as the greatest Batman Villain ever captured on screen, at one point asking Nicole Kidman, "Was that over the top? I can never tell?" You and us both, Ace!

Two Face and The Riddler team up to kill Batman. After lots of colors and explosions and batarangs and epic music and Nicole Kidman flouncing around with her red lips on panty pout, the villains fail, due to Batman being so damn cool as Val Kilmer.



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