Jim Carrey’s Edward Nygma gives us one of the only movie villains to actually challenge the World’s Greatest Detective’s skills. (Also, spoilers for The Dark Knight Rises, I guess.) But Forever uses its pair the best. It’s there, I promise you! The script is no worse than either 1989’s Batman or 1992’s Batman Returns.īatman Returns made multiple villains compulsory that trend continued all the way through the Nolan movies. But even if you remove all the campy performances, the bright day-glow scenery, and super weird CGI, you actually have a pretty solid story. I would contend this movie is the perfect melding of the dour Burton films and the ’66 aesthetic Schumacher wanted to employ. But, having watched it recently, I’d actually contend it’s a better movie than a lot of us snooty critic types might concede. This was everything to me for about a two-year span.Īnd because of that, I’ll never fully dislike it, even though it’s not the best. I was even Two-Face for Halloween that year (only because my little brother got to be the Riddler). What I really wanted to own was the score, turns out, and this is when I learned the difference. This was the first movie I ever paid for myself, my aunt and uncle there for moral support this soundtrack was the very first CD I ever owned and I listened to it nonstop. Pretty much every frame of Batman Forever is seared onto my subconscious from endless rewatches on VHS I’m pretty sure we legitimately broke that tape.

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