Batman and Robin (film)/Wall Banger

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Batman and Robin caused such a huge backlash because of its campiness and disrespect for its source material that people exaggerate its lack of quality. But there are points:

  • Bane was shoehorned in as a third villain. Rather than being the intelligent criminal who crippled and almost killed Batman in the comics, he was a mindless thug who didn't even know how to talk and serves no purpose besides being a muscle-bound henchman.
  • There were characters surfing through the air on rocket ship doors.
  • Every single line spoken by Mr. Freeze, complete with Arnold Schwarzenegger's accent.
  • They explain Schwarzenegger's build as Mr. Freeze having been an Olympic Gymnast. Gymnasts are TINY and LEAN, not big bulks of Muscle.
  • The Bat-Nipple Suits.
  • Alfred protected his encrypted CD (containing the secrets of Batman) with a three letter password that is both a proper noun and the nickname of his sister, and that is written on a picture of Peg sitting next to Alfred's computer. Granted, Alfred (somehow) foresaw the possibility of Barbara hacking the CD to the point that he loaded his own memory engrams into the Bat Computer to interact with Barbara and prepared her a Batgirl costume; but he was taking a big risk nonetheless. If some computer-savvy villain had gotten to that CD first...
  • There's also the decision to make Barbara Alfred's niece fresh off the plane from England (as opposed to Jim Gordon's niece or daughter). The problem? Alicia Silverstone didn't use any kind of British accent. No explanation is given. If her character was in Gotham City long enough to pick up an American accent—which wouldn't match her story—then the great detective would have known something was awry.
  • When Robin goes to infiltrate Poison Ivy's lair, he puts rubber lips on and allows himself to be seduced by Ivy. He then takes his rubber lips off, and proudly shoves it in Ivy's face that he tricked her. Then, after said trickery, Ivy pushes Robin into her vine filled pool when she could have kissed him right after he removed the rubber lips and taunted her.
  • Ivy gets the shaft again. When fighting Batgirl, she pulls out a knife. She then looks at her reflection in the knife and fixes her hair, which gives Barbara an opportunity to kick her into Ivy's throne, which has then become a man-eating Venus flytrap. What?
  • Bane is legendarily one of the only villains who has ever scored a serious victory against Batman. Instead of putting Schwarzenegger in the spot, they reduced the character to Dumb Muscle and shoehorned other villains in.
    • In fact, the film's only redeeming feature is that it kept Mr. Freeze's tragic origin.
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