So I was watching the two Batmen movies with my nephew and it was his 1st time seeing it and he was really enjoying himself because the only Batman movie he knows of is the Nolan/Bale Batman so after explainingto him all the different batmen movies I thought back to when I first saw this Batman and I was just as excited as he was.....so that got me wondering was this Batman really meant for older audiences or was it an attempt to bring Batman:The animated series to the big screen either way he failed....extremely
Here's what I mean: if they where meant for older audiences then why where his characters so damn animated and if it was supposed to be a take on TAS then why where the characters so.....so....wrong. I mean the backstories (except for batgirl) where pretty much on point but the portrayals were so wrong it was ridiculous well the riddler and poison ivy where good and Uma Thurman as the suductive...sensual....deadly poison ivy was a good move and Jim Carrey as the as eccentric Riddler was also a good choice.
Now for the bad: Bat-nipples....need I say more. Batgirl now as cute as Alicia Silverstone was in her Domino mask and bat suit I felt like it we deserved to see Barbra Gordan not Alfred's neice who came out of no where. Mr freeze more like Mr. Pun I mean who knew there could be so many ice puns within the 1st 10 minutes of the movie. And Bane when did Bane become an unintelligible goon (Hopefully its better in TDKR) and Two-face. Two-face was a mean....psychopathic....killer not some happy-go-lucky dick with a gun and an itchy trigger finger. Speaking of Two-face that brings me to Robin. Robin/Dick was a kid when Batman/Bruce found him why was he damn near 30 years old in the movie? What Schumacher should have done was make him a kid but then in the sequal brought him back as an adult...kept poison Ivy there to cause a rift between batman and robin then that paved the way for Nightwing or more than likely NippleWing.
I said all that to say this...Joel Schumacher has brought us plenty of good movies such as phonebooth....A time to kill....Number 23 and a bunch of others so maybe he should leave the capes and cowls to someone a little more capable of coming up with a good plot...cast...costume design...an all around better CBM....Mr Schumacher thank you but no thank you
P.s to those who sat down and read this I applaud you now feel free to sound off your thoughts and feelings in the usual place