Hey guys,
today I want to share with you my thoughts on the 1995 Batman Forever or as I like to call it the beginning of the end of the franchise. It was the third instalment in the Shumacher/Burton franchise of the Dark Knight and I've never ever understood when producers keep part of the cast of previous films and simply replace others with new actors.
I mean, I understand the need to replace one actor with another. That can happen for many reason, see Iron Patriot aka James Rhodes who was played by Terrence Howard in the first Iron Man and then by Don Cheadle in the second and third movie, in that case it was only one actor who was replaced and it is ok therefore to continue with the franchise. However when you have to change half of the cast and you also change the whole tone of the movie then you might as weel do a proper reboot.
In this movie Alfred and Gordon are played by the same actors of the first two movies, but we get a completely new Batman. After Michael Keaton stepped down as Batman, he was replaced for one film only by Val Kilmer and we also get to meet Robin and as always we get a hot blonde which apparently this franchise can't survive without. I mean why did they think that they needed a hot blonde in every single movie and why didn't they just keep one instead of changing every damn movie?
Needless to say that this franchise went from bad (which was the first movie) to worse with Val Kilmer's interpretation of the Caped Crusader but fans who thought that that was the worst were really in for a treat.
Another awful thing about the movie was the batmobile which was horrendous and so was the CGI throughout the whole movie.
One thing that I didn't mind about the movie were the enemies which were the Riddler played by Jim Carrey and Two Face played by Tommy Lee Jones.
Another interesting aspect that the director could have expanded more on is the relationship between Robin and Batman and how what happened to their respective families helped them bond.
Overall the movie per se was not that bad but when placed in the context of the franchise it is absolutely worthless.
I didn't even dislike Val Kilmer as Batman, hell I think out of the three Batman of the franchise he was by far the better one but still the whole franchise was not what it should have been.
Anyway this movie can be considered one of the greatest comic book movie of all time if we compare it to what followed only two years later.
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