

Batman & Robin ignored the popular direction that Tim Burton took with his brooding Batman and went with a colourful, Vegas-styled vision rife with bat-ice-skates, sky surfing, and bat nipples. When I look back at the 20th anniversary of Batman & Robin, I'm still reminded of the cringe-fest that the 1997 film was, compared to previous iterations of Batman-and I'm including the campy 1960s live-action show. The second time, I felt like I was making a kid's toy." And later, Chris O'Donnell said, "On Batman Forever, I felt like I was making a movie. It was so bad in fact that the main star and co-star went on the record stating as much, "It was a difficult film to be good in," said George Clooney in an interview with Total Film. The apology seemed like a good way to start because Batman & Robin was terrible, not by my DC fanboy standards, but by historical standards. "I want to apologize to every fan that was dissapointed, because I think I owe them that." "Look, I apologize," Schumacher told me in a phone interview last week.
