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What director Joel Schumacher started with Batman Forever, he finished with Batman and Robin. This is the movie that killed the franchise for eight years (necessitating the talents of Christopher Nolan to bring it back to life) and put a serious crimp in George Clooney’s early film career. The dialogue was painfully punny, the plot was insipid, the acting was plastic, and the costumes and set design were campier than a John Waters musical. There are too many villains (Uma Thurman’s Poison Ivy and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ceaselessly corny Mr. Freeze) and too many heroes (Alicia Silverstone’s Batgirl joined the Dynamic Duo.) Despite its faults, the movie grossed over $238 million, a spectacular-seeming amount that was still less than any of its three predecessors.