Reviews by moviemogul99

In hindsight, this is actually an entertaining version of Batman. It isn't perfect but it is very watchable with it's Gotham / Las Vegas light show always going on in the background. Val Kilmer is a younger, more handsome Batman.  Jim Carrey gets a bit annoying as Riddler and Chris O'donnell's presence as Robin seems awkward upon first viewing this one.  In the later scenes it is actually nice for Batman to have someone to talk to as he goes into battle.  I do like the more kid friendly approach in contrast to Batman Returns, where the Penguin was just one of the worst things put on film.  But it's also a bit jolting to have rubber butts and prominent nipples taking up camera shots when Batman changes costume.  That is undeniably weird, but at least Schumacher gets on with the action and brings it back to Batman fighting the bad guys when things stray a little off course.  If Burton's Batman is prone to hanging out in his mansion too much while the bad guys torture people, Schumacher's Batman is always on the move, answering the Batsignal, trying to help Robin, dropping in on Chase for a booty call (and then getting turned away).  I found all of that stuff to be rather pleasant, if superficial.  Jim Carrey's scenes were an unwelcome interruption for me though.  He seems to think he's in an Ace Ventura movie where his character can improvise anything he wants to.  From what I hear, Schumacher was basically encouraging this, while his costar, Tommy Lee Jones could not "sanction his buffoonery."  But most of the movie is amusing and I think Schumacher improves the action sequences and gives us more of them.  But it's also funny to think that this is the movie that kept the franchise alive considering some of the wacky things in it.  It isn't a big leap to say that this might be the first bisexual Batman movie, with Batman having to choose between saving Robin (another guy in a rubber muscle suit) and Chase Meridian (his stunning girlfriend who wanted to have sex with him as Batman before learning who he was).  Did I say this was more kid friendly?  Well, yeah. It actually is because all of this will go over the heads of most children.  And at least they won't be scared by one of Burton's disgusting "sight gags" of someone randomly biting a guys nose off like we saw in Batman Returns.  (Sheesh).