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Batman Forever
DA Harvey Dent is hideously scarred down one side, by an acid attack. The result is 2 personalities and 2 faces. Ideal qualifications for a politician you might think, but Two-face's only policy is vengeance on Batman. He teams up with Edward Nygma, a technical wizard who invents a brain-sucking TV and adopts the alto-ego of The Riddler. Meanwhile... in the circus, Dick Grayson witnesses his acrobat family plummet earthwards and get a taste for sawdust. Two-face is to blame but Dick trades his anger for a rubber suit and becomes Robin. Two bad guys, two good guys and 8 persona's.
OK, so Burton was butted out for being too melancholic and dark to the extend that the audience could no longer identify with the characters, so in comes Joel Schumacher, a directer of questionable skill, to bring a more lively feel to the franchise. Well, he succeeded but he also started the beginning of the end for the original Batman franchise. His campier approach to the source material is indeed fun to watch (at least in this installment) and for what it is worth really quite entertaining. You do get the feeling, however, that he had been curbed just a bit so as not to make the franchise succumb into camp and silly one-liners. Too bad the producers didn't continue to hold him back because I, for one quite enjoyed this installment into the Batman series.
Michael Keaton chose not to return as Batman because he wanted to prove that he had the versatility to play something else than Batman. Val Kilmer was cast as the lead instead and wanted to play the character in the same vein as Keaton, with a great measure of seriousness (much to Schumacher's dismay who already wanted to go all out camp) and for what it is worth I actually think Kilmer managed to pull of a reasonable Batman. I don't think he holds a candle to Keaton but an adequate performance. He balances Bruce Wayne out quite a bit and never becomes as manic or as brooding as Keaton was. In light of the obvious return to the camp values of the 60's series Robin was introduced. Not so much to lighten the tone (hardly necessary) but more to give the Bruce Wayne character some new interesting challenge. Chris O'Donnel got the part (ahead of Christian Bale, how weird is that?!) and while not the most talented of actors he is kind of fitting as a sidekick. As the new love interest Nicole Kidman was introduced and she is smoking hot. Her character is really kind of pointless but she serves her purpose as eye candy perfectly. Two new villains are introduced, Two-Face and The Riddler in the forms of Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey. Jim Carrey is a riot to watch. Not really faithful to the original character but fun, fun, fun. His performance is much in key with what he was known for at the time. Overacting wildly and while he pulls it off, the other villain is not so lucky. Tommy Lee Jones is painful to watch. While Carrey pulls the overacting off Tommy Lee only aggravates and annoys. While Carrey was not really faithful to the original character he still stayed within the limits. Tommy Lee (not really his fault I suppose) completely goes against everything the character stands for in one little scene where he repeatedly flips his coin to get the outcome he wants. Something he stated earlier to be the only true justice. This kind of alteration to the character is just not acceptable.
The soundtrack is not nearly as catchy as the one in the two previous movies. I guess they really wanted to distance themselves from the original movies and that means that instead of Danny Elfman's brilliant notes we have to settle for mediocre Elliot Goldenthal's only acceptable score. The score is bombastic like Elfman's but it has no charm and is not a score you will hum to yourself once you've seen the movie. Much in key with the soundtrack the sets have been revamped into a neon-filled neo-noir style which is appropriate given to tone of the film but it is just not as interesting to watch as Burton's Gothic version. The neon lights are used excessively in one scene in particular which just comes off as ridiculous.
The action is decent, not as tense as in the original movies but fairly entertaining. The action was dumbed down quite a bit and some more or less ridiculous sound effects were added but they were fun to watch. Now I'm not saying that Michael Keaton had the perfect physique to play Batman but they film makers had the good sense not to let him show of his torso in full screen. They do this in one scene where you can quite obviously tell that Kilmer's physique was inferior to Chris O'Donnel's. I'm not a film maker myself but I'm pretty sure something like that will ruin the credibility of a man who is supposed to be able to fight something like fifty people when his sidekick is stronger than him.
All in all Batman Forever is not an excellent let alone even a good film. The direction is lacking and some of the characters were obviously miscast. But somehow I cannot bring myself to hate this movie (like I hate Batman & Robin - worst movie, no wait, worst thing mankind has ever created) because it is so much fun and make no pretension of being otherwise. Val Kilmer is solid and one half of the villains is fun to watch. I did/do, however, dislike the general direction the franchise took with this movie and its sequel proved to be everything a movie is NOT supposed to be.
6/10 Time can sometimes not be kind to a film. What may have seemed like a great, enjoyable romp when first viewed amidst the hype and glitz of an initial release can suddenly look much less appealing as the distance allows greater perspective. A film for which this is the case is Batman Forever. In 1995, I found it an entertaining, enjoyable film. Having just recently seen it again in some time due to the release of the first four Batman films on DVD in new special two-disc editions, Batman Forever has fallen quite far in my standing of quality. What emerged from the DVD player was a film that was all flash and overacting, lacking any real depth or interest aside from the pretty visuals and occasional one-liners. It still isn't quite as bad as Batman & Robin, but it isn't good either.
Batman Forever was an attempt by Warner Bros. to "lighten" up the Batman series, which had been believed to have grown too dark under original director Tim Burton with his second outing, Batman Returns. Enter Joel Schumacher, a director who had made several hits for Warner Bros., including the stylish vampire film The Lost Boys. Schumacher was apparently given the directive to bring Batman out of the shadows, and he did accomplish this: Batman Forever is a continuous explosion of neon and color, with outlandish costume and set design to accompany it. However, as attractive as Batman Forever looks, what lurks beneath is a relatively lackluster and thin core, burdened by the beginning of a return to the campiness of the 1960's television series that would render the Batman franchise null for nearly a decade.
Batman Forever's plot, what there is of it, finds villainous Harvey Dent aka Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones) planning to kill Batman (Val Kilmer). Harvey blames Batman for allowing him to be scarred with acid on one side of his face that caused his mind to become unhinged and create a split personality. At the same time, Edward Nygma (Jim Carrey), a scientist in his company's R & D division is harboring an obsession with the millionaire. When Wayne rebuffs Nygma's latest invention, a device that will beam a television signal directly into the human brain, Nygma becomes incensed, and begins to plot revenge on Wayne. Nygma quickly discovers that his box does more than send television right to the brain, it also allows him to become smarter by feeding off the watcher's brain waves.
Nygma adopts an alter ego, the Riddler, and joins forces with Two-Face to rob Gotham of enough money to finance more of his devices and therefore become smarter. Two-Face indulges his desire to wipe Batman off the face of the Earth, attacking a circus that Bruce Wayne is attending and killing a group of trapeze artists named the Flying Graysons, leaving only Dick Grayson (Chris O'Donnell) alive. Dick is determined to have revenge on Two-Face and when he discovers that Bruce Wayne is Batman, demands that he take him on as a partner. Finally, Batman is being lusted after by psychiatrist Dr. Chase Meridian (Nicole Kidman) who finds herself attracted to Batman because she has always liked "the wrong guy."
Some of the elements of Batman Forever would work in a better written movie, but here ideas and plot are all secondary to the overarching spectacle. Batman Forever is designed to look good and provide some mild laughs, but nothing else. Everything that would make an interesting story is buried under mounds of production design, special effects, reasonably unexciting action sequences and a ridiculous amount of camera mugging by Jones and Carrey. Sure, there is a plot, but it is all wildly underdeveloped. The Riddler want's to capture Gotham's brain power because . . . it's a rush? I guess. Maybe. The film doesn't really do anything with this idea. What is the goal? I'm not sure. Two-Face is even shallower. He wants to kill Batman. That's it. He has no other depth to him, his motives are that base. Neither of them are interesting characters. Sure, Carrey and Jones are entertaining to watch at times, but even here the film trips itself up. They both overact to the hilt, there isn't a moment of subtlety, no menace to either of them. They aren't villains, they are caricatures of villains, or, more specifically, caricatures of Jack Nicholson's performance as the Joker in Batman. There, it was original, and the Joker had some sense of menace. Here, it's all played for slapstick, and how can that be threatening?
Batman fares even worse. Val Kilmer has replaced Michael Keaton as the lead, but that doesn't really help matters. Kilmer is rather wooden in the role, and the filmmaker's attempt at adding any layers to Wayne is laughable. There is a subplot of sorts involving Wayne's memories following his parent's death, but it all adds up to nothing. His romance with Chase is also a dead zone. There is no chemistry, no attraction between them. Chase is a relatively one-dimensional character also who seems unduly attracted to Batman (maybe she has a thing for black). You couldn't care less if they end up together or not. The introduction of Robin/Dick Grayson has some interesting elements, and is arguably the most fleshed out element of the film, but it is mashed in with so much other junk as to prove just a minor subplot.
Batman Forever isn't a waste: it looks good, the music score is effective at times, some of the jokes are funny. However, it is most likely that the recent Batman Begins, with an emphasis on character and plot, has quickly made the prior Batman films look exactly like they always were, but was sometimes previously hard to discern: shallow spectacles. For those who complain about empty blockbusters, Batman Forever is more fuel for the fire. Carrey lights up an otherwise over-scripted, over-frenetic potboiler.
Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones) and The Riddler (Jim Carrey) band together to destroy Batman (Val Kilmer), while Bruce Wayne takes on young circus acrobat Dick Grayson (Chris O'Donnell) as a ward after his parents and brother are killed by Two-Face. Meanwhile, Bruce is also falling in love with Doctor Chase Meridian (Nicole Kidman), a psychologist specializing in multiple personalities (of which Gotham City seems to have its share). No, although the movie is based on characters created by American comic book artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger for DC Comics, first appearing in Detective Comics #27 in May of 1939. It is the third movie in Warner Bros.' Batman film series, preceded by Batman (1989) (1989) and Batman Returns (1992) (1992) and followed by Batman & Robin (1997) (1997). The screenplay was written by Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler, and Akiva Goldsman. Gotham City is a fictional U.S. port city located on the north-eastern Atlantic coast. It was originally a stand-in for New York City but has also resembled other crime-ridden, highly-populated urban centers such as Chicago and Detroit. Some sources, including Mayfair Games' authorized (but now out-of-print) Atlas of the DC Universe, have placed Gotham City in the state of New Jersey. Christopher Nolan (director of Batman Begins and its sequels, The Dark Knight (2008) (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012) (2012)) locates Gotham City in the middle of the estuary of the Liberty River where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean. The river separates most of Gotham from the mainland. The River Merchant divides Uptown from Midtown, while Midtown is separated from Downtown by the Gotham River. The Narrows is a small island in the Gotham River. A creek divides the district of South Hinkley from the rest of Gotham City. Gotham International Airport is in Pettsburg, to the north of the Liberty River estuary. The current DC Universe version of Gotham City is separated from the mainland by the Gotham River, bridged by a series of bridges and tunnels. The east and south sides of Gotham face the Atlantic Ocean. The city is further divided by the Sprang River (named for Dick Sprang) on the northern end and the Finger River (for Bill Finger) to the south. Tiny Blackgate Isle to the south-east is home to Blackgate Maximum Security Penitentiary. (Blackgate is replaced by Stonegate Penitentiary in the animated series Batman (1992-1995) and its spin-offs.) Former district Attorney Harvey Dent, once dedicated to fighting crime in Gotham City, was injured in an acid accident that left him disfigured on one side of his face. Harvey blames the accident on Batman and wants to see him dead. More of Dent's story can be seen in The Dark Knight (2008) (2008), although the two movies are not in the same franchise. Yes. Edward Nygma, an employee of Wayne Industries, tried to sell Bruce on funding a device he invented for manipulating human brainwaves and transferring them into his own head. Bruce turns him down on the grounds that tampering with human minds presents too many problems, so Nygma tries it on himself, and it unhinges his already unstable mind, turning him into the Riddler. There are three possible explanations: (1) Batman asked Commissioner Gordon where Chase Meridian was staying during her visit to Gotham City; (2) Chase told Batman to come to her house without saying where she lived. However, Bruce Wayne had already visited Chase's house before and, in that case, Batman would have no problem getting there; (3) She figured if he really wanted to come over, he'd make the effort to track her down. This would let her know that he was interested. Faced with the choice of saving either Chase or Robin from falling into a pit of jagged rocks, Batman chooses instead to destroy the container holding all the stored brainwaves of the citizens of Gotham, driving Riddler into a massive mental breakdown but not before he sends Chase and Robin plunging to their deaths. Batman leaps in after them and manages to save both, landing safely on some scaffolding. Suddenly Two-Face appears to taunt Batman. As Two-Face flips his coin to determine whether or not to kill Batman, Batman tosses several other coins into the air above him. Flailing drastically to capture his real coin, Two-Face falls off the scaffolding and plunges to his death. Riddler is placed in Arkham Asylum, and Chase is called in for consultation when he keeps screaming that he knows Batman's true identity. When Chase asks him who is Batman, Edward claims that he is Batman while flapping the shredded sleeves of his strait jacket like a bat. Chase assures Bruce that Riddler is "wacko" and that his secret is safe. Bruce returns the Malaysian dream warden to Chase and thanks her for giving him a new dream. In the final scene, Batman and Robin are seen running together in the glow of the bat signal. Before deciding not to don the cape and cowl for a third time, Michael Keaton met with Joel Schumacher and declined to join the project after deciding that he did not like the direction in which Schumacher was looking to take the franchise. In the brief time that Tim Burton was still considering doing a third Batman film,was the only villain that he planned on using. The idea of using Two-Face did not come up until Schumacher joined the project. In order to get the PG rating in the UK, several scenes not suitable for younger children had to be cut. More than one and a half minutes are missing in this version. Fortunately an uncut 12-rated version does exist as well.
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