"Like a flood insurance policy that excludes flooding." That's a great line 🤣🤣

Tommy Lee Jones said “I hate you. I really don't like you and I cannot sanction your buffoonery."

When you have two villains you cannot make them both Jack Nicholson's Joker in different clothes. It's too much.

I love that you use the scene from community of Jeff Winger, and the Dean singing kiss by a rose. It’s what I always think of an hour when I think of this song before that it was Batman forever.

“It was a different time. People liked crap.” 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

"Tommy-Lee Foolery!" for the win! The difference between Returns and Forever is the difference between a Salvia Divinorum and LSD trip.

And now Michael Keaton's Batman again.

I had a three tier bat cave with a batmobile that had snap on wings and a boat hull from this movie.

Still love this movie for its absurdity! Great review though

Whenever this film comes up my mind paraphrases the Simpsons: "Batman Forever, hopefully not forever"

"Can you sanction this tomfoolery" , dude your channel is the best. Happy new year!

Can't wait to see your review of BATMAN AND ROBIN, which makes BATMAN FOREVER look like the epitome of subtlety. The first time I saw this one, I was startled by the tonal contrast between this one and the Burton movies. When I watch it now, I wonder about to whom the supervillains contracted the construction of the giant blender, and if they had any issues about zoning, or if they had to put an air traffic warning light on top.

In "Edie: American Girl" about Edie Sedgwick, Joel Schumacher describes what it was like to go to the office of one of New York City's notorious "Doctor Feelgoods" close to around the same time of the live-action TV series. Maybe that's what inspired "Batman Forever"?

Nicole Kidman was hot. That's about all I can give it.

You are 100% correct about REAL GENIUS, but I liked this film a little more than you did.

Another highly enjoyable review that, in my opinion, hits the cod-piece squarely on the head. It struck me at the time that Val Kilmer's performance seemed to be for a completely different movie. A movie I think I would have preferred to the one we got.

Not really related, but in regards to toys, the worst idea for a toy I ever saw was in relation to the Justice League cartoon: The Flash Motorcycle. What does The Flash need with a motorcycle.

I love this movie. I find no fault with it 😂

Yes. Real Genius!

Goddamn, I missed this one. Please, please do a review of Real Genius.. one of the best movies ever released that never had a sequel - like Highlander. The soundtrack, the acting, the sexy nerdy girl that never ever did anything again, Real Genius had it all.

When I saw this in the cinema back in the day many times I thought it was epic batman actually ran I love this film and the soundtrack is on another level of genius

A big problem is that Two-Face doesn't fit with The Riddler. As a result, they made him into more of a Joker and ignored most of the best aspects of the character. He's the villain that Batman really wants to save because they used to be on the same side. The movie gave us none of that.

"bat butt" lol Hey, do Batman & Robin!

Im not sure anything has changed since 1995. People still like crap.

8:08 that’s two different cars

Love that puppy analogy. Lol! Glad you mentioned the awfulness of the Batmobile in this movie. I remember thinking it looked like someone had taken a regular car and strapped sheets of black painted cardboard and bit of plastic to it. Heh!

The soundtrack IS the best thing out of this.

9:56 - ...and didn't "Kiss from a Rose" not feature in the film at all and literally only comes on about ten seconds before the copyright and MPAA logo at the end of the credits?

Was I just imagining it or was Batman Forever (1995) heavily influenced by the excellent Batman: The Animated Series ('92-'94)? I was a huge fan of both the Tim Burton films and the Animated Series and was about 11 or 12 when Batman Forever came out and I remember thinking/feeling that very strongly in the theater during that very first heist scene w/ the safe/helicopter...

Jones and Carey were beyond appalling Goddamn it people can't you be normal

"Sanction" is not the wrong verb, but I'd have used "countenance", which would have led the masses to ask what they hell that means.

Yeah, I miss the Val Kilmer with a sense of humour, Top Secret was wonderfully odd & endlessly quotable. Hated him in pretty much everything since.

There is nothing wrong what Joel is trying to do, but he doesn't get to do it - its like he is being held back and the actors are not all in on it, or even in this very movie. the next one does what this seems to want to do WAY bettter.

I was never completely satisfied with how Batman was handled in any of the Burton/Schumacher movies. Too many missing fundamentals. Amid all that dissatisfaction, there were aspects of Batman Forever I liked, largely due to the deep introspection, good martial arts sequences, and vehicle designs I personally liked. For all that I was hoping would be implemented into Batman movies, the first thing I did after seeing Batman Begins was sending Joel Schumacher a thank you letter for ultimately euthanizing that Batman franchise and giving rise to one that I could believe in.

Its rubbish BUT I actually love it - there - I've come out and have exposed my dirty love secret.

Stam Fine, do you know Des Mangan?

So, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say...you aren't a fan of this movie??? Also, I have to ask: #WheresMySchumacherCut? (if you know, you know)

Was huge keen and thoroughly enjoyed Forvever in its day. I can still enjoy it today and still enjoy its soundtrack too. Let’s no talk about Batman & Robin though.

If you wrote every word of this review, you are a comedy genius. If you had friends help, you owe them booze. This review followed the most basic rule too many videos forget: make it worth the time of your audience. I love this channel.

It was fruity poop

This film was sooo goofy, kilmer and carrey is too much ego in one film.

Such a slog to watch. Kilmer is joyless, as Bruce Wayne is but he's so wooden!

I liked this movie

As much derision as Joel Schumacher deserves for this debacle, you neglected to mention the hack responsible for scripting it: Akiva Goldsman, who rewrote the original screenplay by Lee and Janet Batchler to bring it into line with Schumaker's "lighter" approach. He also phoned in the script for Batman and Robin, copying the exact beats of this horrorshow. He followed that franchise-killer with the script for Lost in Space, another ill-advised adaptation of a '60s TV show. Inexplicably, Goldsman won an Academy Award for writing A Beautiful Mind, a development that should have led to an investigative reporter's exposé to determine what bizarre series of events led to such an unlikely outcome. (Chillingly, Goldsman is the creator and showrunner of the Star Trek: Discovery spin-off Strange New Worlds, a show I had been looking forward to until learning of this.)

Disagree with the review. Batman Forever isn't perfect but it's a really fun and enjoyable movie. It also has an amazing trailer that shows how trailers should promote their movies. 👍

My opinion of Batman seems to be in the other direction: I want MORE silly, not more gritty. I'm so bored to fuck of gritty. Superheroes are ridiclous, Batman is just a delusionally rich furry with violent tendencies, you can't do that seriously, it's bleak. imho Batman MUST be silly. Dark Knight was good but that's because of Heath Ledger giving the Joker such a unique spin. As a rule.. yeah it's got to be colourful and silly and over the top and hammed to the nines, otherwise it's just some rich fuck with issues beating up people in a bad economic situation, the silly is all Batman has really in terms of entertainment value to me.

Horrible review. The movie is nowhere as bad as you're saying.

The Riddler is my favourite Batman villain. And he was totally ruined as a character by Carey in this god awful movie.

You missed the mark on this one, especially when it comes to the writing. It's hard to ignore the finished product but I've grown more appreciation for this film and blame the studio for cutting out most of the depth that was in the screenplay - if anything, this screenplay was both darker and more psychological than both of Burton's previous films.

"Cute but covered in s**t" I've never heard a more succinct description of Batman Forever. And then you talk about the pizza with different toppings and you outdo yourself. They're both amazing descriptions! But then I'm in the especially small crowd that prefers Batman & Robin. That's because this movie is *almost* OK, it has everything to work and should but someone claws defeat from victory and doesn't work. Batman & Robin is throughout terrible so you can watch it like The Room - it's so bad, for me it's good. What does this do right? - Bat Costume looks great... err except the nips - Chris O'Donnell would make a great Robin as Nightwing - Nicole Kidman would suit a Noir Gotham setup - The special FX are great - The soundtrack isn't Elfman but it's pretty good - Joel Schmumacher IS a good director and a humble man by all accounts - The whole arc of Batman trying to hold Robin back from killing Two-Face is great stuff The problem is everything else is wrong. The campy tone works against the Burton movies. MASSIVELY misjudged tone. The Batmobile is generic and pretty terrible. Two-Face and Riddler are massively miscast (Lee Jones can't be arsed to be here, should have been Billy Dee William's, and Carrey is too Ace Ventura here. I rate Carrey as an actor very highly but he's just not playing the Riddler and his mugging is distracting. Val Kilmer is monotone and bland. The bad stuff just blasts the good out the door. And yet Carrey being cast here, I'm convinced caused it's huge success.