Did... did they really cut one of the best bits in the movie? The bit where, after Two-Face demands Batman reveal himself or let hundreds of people die, Bruce immediately stands up and shouts that he's Batman, only to be drowned out by the panicked screaming and clamoring of the understandably freaked out crowd? That was a very powerful moment that spoke volumes about Bruce's character, and they apparently didn't put it in the comic! What the hell?!

On an unrelated note. I actually really like the scene at the circus when Bruce gets up and yells that he's Batman. I love this because it shows him willing to sacrifice the position of Batman if it means saving people. It makes him, in my opinion, more heroic than the bat-dick he tends to be written like. There is a similar scene in The Dark Knight where he's prepared to admit he's Batman, but doesn't have to. Here he stands up and screams that he's Batman, but no one hears him because of the pandemonium.

One bit I really liked in the movie was when Two-Face did the circus scene, Bruce IMMEDIATELY stood up and tried to yell he was Batman to him, only to be drowned out by the screaming crowd.

For some reason, Linkara making Val Kilmore's smooth voice into Christian Bale's smoker-lung is just hilarious.

14:17 "...cross-dressing night rat!" Now we know how Barbara in Batman & Robin was able to get the heels and boob socks to make her costume!

I just love everytime Linkara does the "WHAT?! NO! NO! I'M NOT BATMAN!!!... I'm Batman!" thing :D

I cracked the code. Jesse Eisenberg wasn't trying to play Lex Luthor, he was trying to be Jim Carrey's Riddler.

Wow, that’s actually a pretty good Jim Carrey impression.

It could've been worse. Tommy Lee Jones could've been playing One-Face.

I'd say Jim Carry would make a better Creeper than most of the batman villains (the character not an actual creeper mind you) basically aggressive TV turned manic hero like character

Batman Forever: The comic adaptation that raises too many questions, but not as many as Marville.

12:50 What’s funny is that Bruce Wayne actually does have a PhD in Criminal Psychology. I can’t remember if he got the PhD under a false identity or not, but he definitely did put in the time to get the degree. Course with PhDs, you should get them renewed every few years or so (I don’t know if that’s actually a legal requirement or not, but it should still be done either way) so who’s to say if Batman’s PhD (any of them really, since he also has degrees in Forensic Science, Chemistry, and who knows what else) still holds any water.

I believe the comic industry's problems really started in the 80's. The direct market lead to them focusing only on people already reading comics. This lead to more stretched out stories, crossovers, etc. because they no longer had to worry about unsold issues. It also meant consumers had to be specifically looking for comics and wouldn't normally come across them during a typical shopping trip. The customer base kept getting older and smaller as more people dropped out than came on. Then they started really pushing that existing customer base with price increases well above the inflation rate and more issues to tell less story. One of Linkara's early video reviews, Amazons Attack is a perfect example. A Wonder Woman event where most of her story takes place in her solo title and it all is ultimately just a Countdown tie-in. It was about getting completists to buy more.

A comic review of a movie adaptation with Jim Carrey, while a Sonic movie trailer was released with Jim Carrey.... Coincidence I think YES!!!

14:17 Actually yes! There was the direct to video sequel dealing with cross dressing called Batwoman Rises! Harley Quinn was in it and had access to an atomic bomb somewhere in Gotham and batman had to disguise himself as a college girl to sneak into an all female sorority to find out where. I absolutely love the scene where batman and black canary bonded and had a fashion montage to ask Man-bat out on a date!

Fun fact: This comic is actually using the original scene order. Dennis O'Neil preferred the original cut of the film to the cut we actually got, so he based the comic more off of that original cut (But was unable to put in some of the really dark elements of the original cut). This is how the original script and cut flowed, which is why the scene restructuring makes more sense here than the weird scene reordering in the other comic adaptations did.

I gotta applaud you for that opening statement about Comics. The whole argument about their current decline has lately turn into an ugly political debate, Ignoring the fact that people have focus more on movies, tv and now digital media since they are more accessible and cheaper, as oppose to overprice short issues. Even growing in the late 90's I didn't know anybody who read comics, the only big deal being Spawn amd most of it because of the Toys and movies than the series itself. And yeah today's kids are reading Manga thanks to the current anime trend and independent comics not being dragged by years of confusing convulated storylines and character changes.

I read comics and I actually own comic books, because of you and my favorite show Regular Show. Seriously Linkara thank you for getting me into reading comic books.

"It just raises too many questions." - Running gag

With the mind control and design i get a mad hatter vibe from this version of the riddler. The riddle gimmick is kinda shoe horned in. I don't know if it was decided to use riddler for name reconition.

Perfect timing, the Sonic movie trailer with Jim Carrey just came out.

Batman Forever is one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies

"Oh no... IT'S BOILING ACIIIIID!!!"

You know, as a huge comic book fan... it is kind of depressing to realize that a lot of people don’t read comics. I feel if comics were longer and cheaper, more people would buy them. Comics can be more popular... if they were cheaper and longer to enjoy. But that’s my opinion.

"A surprising amount of Ask Tumblrs are still active." Ah, speaking from personal experience are we?

5:51 Funny enough, my parents still own the Two-Face Batman Forever glass mug from McDonalds

”That's Wako” ”That's not Wako this is Wako!” *gets hit by a big cartoon Mallet*

Interesting notes: the director suggested Robin Williams, the producers, and the studio suggested Jim Carrey! I'm not sure based on the reasoning for the studio! I mean, technically at the time Robin was actually cheaper than Jim, now could be because scheduling outlets but they never bother talking with Robin so that highly doubtful! Just a little food for thought.

My favorite explanation for the Bat credit card remains the one from a fanfic where Sid the Squid from BTAS got out of prison and decided to open a credit union for henchmen. The Blackgate Allied Trades Credit Union.

I agree with your statement about comics. Shifting media has robbed us of a truly unique media style... But then again... No more Youngblood!

You could say waiting for this episode took... forever? That was a terrible pun, I’m sorry.

Perfect timing considering that Sonic movie trailer starring Jim Carrey as Eggman.

In Finland, over a million people read Donald Duck every week. In a country with 5.5 million people. No other country reads Disney comics as Finnish people do in Finland. And yes, it's Donald Duck. He's way more popular than Mickey Mouse over here.

Half the comments: “This was released the same day as the Sonic movie”

Linkara is here to boldly challenge the opinion that "Batman Forever" would have been improved by having Jim Carey's Riddler speak out of his butt.

I don’t know why I find Linkara’s Batman voice so hilariously incongruous coming out of Val Kilmer, but it’s making me laugh.

Hey, I just saw "In the Mouth of Madness" recently! What a prize of a movie.

1:06- Love "Avengers: Endgame" 3,000, BTW 2:56- "Blade Runner" was adapted to a comic? ...Then when are they gonna do the same with "Blade Runner 2049"? 4:18- And we have the Alien Quadrilogy DVD box set released in 2003 to thank for that. 5:55- I still remember seeing that McDonald's commercial back in the day. 9:45- I think Cory Michael Smith did an awesome job playing the Riddler in the Gotham TV series; far better than Jim Carrey. 11:26- "I'll get drive-thru." was also in the film's trailer. Just FYI. 14:45- In the Arkham games, it's called the Lady of Gotham. 16:21- So, you expected to look like The Leader from the Marvel Universe, minus the green skin?

That intro legit.....hurts but its sooo true... 😅 but for really dont know anyone who read comics

Man, too bad the comic axed a lot of Nygma's lines... "IIIIIIIII'm... SUCKIN' UP YOUR IQ! Vacuuming your cortex! Feeding off your brain!"

I should see Batman Forever one of these days. It took me forever to know that's where "It just raises too many questions" came from.

Tim Burton wanted either Robin Williams, or Micky Dolenz, to play The Riddler.

An entire month dedicated to Movie Adaptations? It just raises too many question marks.

"The box" ITS A CONE!

The comic of this episode was my very first comic book I ever read and what got me into super heroes and comics

To this day, I stll stand by the novel adaption of the movie. It felt like the author really was continuing from Batman Returns, character development is expanded on, and of course alternate and original scenes that flesh the story out further including insight on Edward Nigma's early obsession with Bruce Wayne and Harvey Dent's fractured partnership with Batman.

huh. What a coincidence. We got a trailer today for another movie that looks like Jim Carry will be the best part of the film.

The Gotham City branch of the Ghostbusters, eh? That’d be a hell of a job!

Batman will never be forgotten. He stand the test of time

Wait, you DIDN'T use Seal's Kiss From a Rose for the title card?!

2:01, am I the only one hoping Linkara will one day do a review of 'My Hero Academia'? He's done manga before but this time it would be manga heavily influenced by superhero comics.

14:17 Yes, there was. Another one of those interesting things that happened was more development of the "triumvirate" formed by Batman, Gordon, and Dent, as well as Dent's scarring by Maroni. It was basically a condensed adaptation of The Long Halloween.

I love the song Kiss From a Rose by Seal

Comic books are storyboard art for movies and games

Wow, that Carrey impression was pretty spot on. Nice work Linkara!

I genuinely like Batman Forever unironically, it’s not a good movie, but I just love it. I think most people lump it in with Batman and Robin. As a fan of the sixties era, I can appreciate the more wild nature of these characters as this is essentially what you’d get in a 90s version of Batman ‘66.

Well Jim Carrey is certainly relevant again

Your jim carrey is good surprisingly subtle

Can you imagine the Burton version? Keaton as Batman, Billy Dee Wiiliams as Two Face, and Robin Williams as Riddler. The Marque: Keaton-Williams-Williams

Edward Nigma= "The Box" Last angry geek= "its a cone" Me= "No you idiots, its a bloody blender! Even linkara agrees!"

Funny Linkara uploaded this the same day as the Sonic movie trailer, where Jim Carrey reprises his role of the Riddler

I hope you do the comic adaptation of the Sam Raimi Spider-Man film.

21:33-“ the bat signal is not a booty call “ needs to be on a shirt

can you beat 2 face by constantly subjectim him to 3-way choices?

I agree with you about movies and TV shows being more popular than comics, but I think people should look up the comics to see how they were created and what the movies and shows were based on

I was waiting for this one. Thanks Linkara!

I care about comic books enough to watch this show XD

I look at these films like the Bond films. The films are mostly self-contained and even switch out actors and crews, however they do retain certain actors and plot details, as well as being in the same continuity.

19:54 In short: 'this is why Superman works alone.'

You know? I think this is the first time that The Riddler has been on this show. Neat. and it's this version of the Riddler.

With that bit any comics becoming less relevant, it reminded me of an argument I made as to why manga was outselling American comics (as someone who is more of an anime fan, but has an appreciation for comics) If you want to start reading Iron Man, the question of where to start is a bit tricky. You can start with stuff from his debut, but it can be unrepresentative of the character nowadays. You can pick up a modern issue, but there's a lot of continuity across multiple series that makes it a bit harder to get into. You can look up good, self contained runs (which is arguably the best way to do it) but that does require more external research, which is another step between you and actually reading the comic. If you want to start reading Naruto, you pick up volume 1, which is still in print, and continue reading volumes. Now honestly, I think the fact that there is this giant interconnected universe of characters is really cool and a unique part of superhero comics. But it does sacrifice accessibility doing that, and while that absolutely can be something that is worth it to get into, from what I've seen through Linkara, it feels like comics have reached the point where they've sacrificed too much of that accessibility to convince a new reader to get in.

Really good intro about the comic industry

Aww! They didn't include the "Oh no! Its BOILING AAAAAACID!!!" line.

I'm a simple girl, I see an In the Mouth of Madness reference, I click Like.

14:35: Ah, the statue of Gothamy. It was a gift from French Metropolis.

I now want to see Linkara review MHA, QUICK TO PATREON!

@14:25-14:57 To be fair. It was a gift from the Joker after he stole it from Carmen Sandiego.

I was actually on my way to Halifax when this uploaded. One of those fun times my life had.

Have watched the review before, but the thing about the time in which Two-Face commits his crime reminded me of the clearly superior, clearly Objectively Better™ live action adaptation of Batman… HOLY MUSICAL B@MAN! The lines from the musical to keep in mind at the moment are: Superman: Two-Face is the worst. His theme is just the number two. What’s he going to do, rob the second national bank of all its two dollar bills? God forbid Gotham runs out of all its two dollar bills. Poison Ivy: What’re you gonna do, rob the second largest National Bank of all its two dollar bills? Two-Face: Yeah! On February 2nd!

The graphic novel resembles Schumacher's uncut " Red Book Edition " since it contains adult themes which were cut from the official version.

If it's a statue representing justice shouldn't it be holding a scale instead of a torch?

Glad to see you tear into this one.

The market for comics is continuing to shrink due to constant crossovers, controversies (looking at you secret empire), failure to expand outside of comic stores, rising prices, and it seems like there's so many books n spinoffs that seems to be flooding the shelves. When books cost $5 and you don't know what's good nor have something consistent that you dont have to buy 5 more books, no duh the industry is shrinking.

I saw the robocop comic that came with 3d glasses way before the movie and I loved that comic.

And now... The real book begins.

Now then with all that said I think what would help mainstream super hero comics specifically with marvel and dc is to say I don’t know like let characters grow up and evolve and open the door for legacy characters again instead of holding them back like for example let Wally west my flash be the main flash again have him get his wife and kids back Irey and jai alive and kicking and Barry Allen can retire like he was supposed to be, before they brought him back for some bizarre reason, especially with recent rumors which I am hoping isn’t true but unfortunately if those rumors about bendis trying to destroy the Superman family by getting rid of both Jon Kent superboy and Damian Wayne robin for some bizarre reason which I am hoping isn’t the case because that would really break my heart into a million pieces if that happens. Now as for marvel yeah that’s another can of worms in itself that really needs to address especially with some of there characters like Spider-Man aka peter Parker who was growing up and being adult and was married to his wife Mary Jane and they were going to have there daughter Spider-Girl mayday Parker alive and kicking which I would’ve loved to see that but nope instead we got the awful one more day regressing Peters character back to zero which is just awful and bad storytelling in my book.

As far as people not caring about comic books the sad truth is you're right about that one hundred percent especially since well both marvel and sometimes DC try to make there comics kinda like the movies which in my opinion is a really bad idea because the comics should be separate from the movies themselves not the other way around, but unfortunately marvel doesn't understand that these days and just wants to have there comics be like the movies themselves which is not only weird but really stupid in my book.

2:20 Then, there's the recent launch of DC Universe. This is a service for not only shows, but comics as well. 2:35 Suddenly, you turn to comic review/recap channels on KZfaq to help you stay updated. 9:50 Everybody knows someone like this, be it in their family or fandom of their choice... 14:25 Well, it IS Joel Schumacher... 15:12 "3D fish?! You unethical bastard!" =D 15:32 And now, one of my favorite lines from the Rifftracks: "3D fish?! You unethical bastard!" 18:10 So...the writer of Heroes in Crisis, then. 18:20 "I prefer the term Tom Cruise."

Do you think maybe the only reason jim carrey was hired was because ace ventura hates bats

Few things. First off, I hate to be the guy that proves your opening thesis right, as I watch super hero cartoons and movies, but buy comics of cartoons and movies. Secondly, glad to know I'm not the only one that thinks Jim's Riddler is supposed to be a...eh... "tribute" to Frank Gorshin's portrayal gone wrong. And lastly, love the title card of this one being the cartoon version of Ace Venture dressed as The Riddler doing the talking butt thing. And now, naturally I have to imagine Dr. Robotnik doing that. Thanks Sonic movie trailer.

I liked the very frank discussion at the beginning on the problems with comics. I remember asking a friend who owned a shop why he kept buying so many reprintings of stuff like Hush. Told me it was because older material sells more. So there's something about today's comics that aren't even appealing to people who go to comic shops.

The Statue of Liberty thing is always funny to me. In the Young Justice universe regular New York exists. And Gotham is in Connecticut instead. Mixing together the real cities of Bridgeport and New Haven. As it falls somewhere between the two.

Really? I thought the Robin in this movie was college-aged like in the animated series.

I am the one guy who say it: Val Kilmer was a good casting choice

Something about the One Face gag being used at that acid vault kinda makes me want to swap that, see Three or more Face. Yeah, it’s just as stupid as One Face, but that’s kinda what I’m going for, a dumb idea that might be fun to run with and see what happens.

I'm glad this is the official one. I don't want no unofficial comic adaptation of Batman Forever.

Is that Bruce Hippodrome, owner of the Gotham Hippodrome?

oh for the love of... looks like the toy channels have moved in on the recommendations

The reference to In the Mouth of Madness was brilliant!

Linkara ; Quadrilogy sounds better than Tetrology Me; *KALINKA INTENSIFIES*