pulling the feels…
pulling the feels…
FUN
9
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
37
how much it moved you
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Read from 50 comments (46 from Metacritic, 4 from TMDB reviews) — 6 of them described how it moves.
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“a narrative rhythm that feels 100% mechanical and stagnant”
famfacat · Metacritic ↗
“dragging through a pathetic cycle of neon-lit camp and over-the-top performances”
famfacat · Metacritic ↗
“it did not have a good pace”
PhantomWatcher · Metacritic ↗
“was dull and boring”
Moviefan98 · Metacritic ↗
“he gives a really good performance from start to finish and you can tell he's having so much fun in the role of the Riddler”
Robwinz · Metacritic ↗
“the entire two hour movie was Two-Face and the Riddler trying to kill Batman. This seems overused by now, as this is the second movie’s premise in a nutshell.”
sonofaBRUH · Metacritic ↗
Read 25 Aug 2026 · confidence 50% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
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“Unlike Burton, Schumacher doesn't let his stylistic and thematic fascinations run away with him; he keeps one hand on the wheel at all times. The result isn't as emotionally daring and visually outrageous as Burton at his best, but it's better paced and more consistently entertaining from one sequence to the next.”
Matt Zoller Seitz, Dallas Observer · 80
“It's lighter, brighter, funnier, faster-paced, and a whole lot more colorful than before.”
James Berardinelli, ReelViews · 75
“Schumacher's method is to use a lighter touch, to stay closer to the cartoon that Bob Kane created for DC Comics in 1939 and to temper Burton's nightmare world with an accessible, brightly colored TV palette.”
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone · 75
“It's an art-direction, Dolby-sound, special-effects extravaganza, a grand-scale effort that's more awe-inspiring than completely successful as entertainment.”
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle · 75
“Although the film's frenetic rhythm is reminiscent of an "Indiana Jones" picture, visually Schumacher directs it like a musical, turning each image into eye candy, weaving one lush set piece into the next, as if he were the Vincente Minnelli of blockbusters.”
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly · 75
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“a narrative rhythm that feels 100% mechanical and stagnant”
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“dragging through a pathetic cycle of neon-lit camp and over-the-top performances”
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“it did not have a good pace”
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“was dull and boring”
Moviefan98about 0–100% inread it ↗
“A different direction brings differing results. Batman takes on a new side kick as he fights to keep Gotham City out of the clutches of Two-Face and The Riddler. "No thanks, I'll get drive-thru" Thus these be the first words out of Val Kilmer's incarnation of Batman and thus setting the standard for what Joel Schumacher's two Batman movies would be like. Gone is the dark undertone from Tim Burton's visions, and the tight action sequences that marked Burton's debut out as a genuine genre”
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“There are some great **things** in _Batman Forever_. Val Kilmer I think cops a bit too much flak for his go in the cape & cowl, he's certainly no sort of definitive Batman but I thought he did a fine job. The city has a crazy cool design, the Batmobile is updated in a wholly original way, and that neon street gang is some of the coolest shit I've ever seen put to screen. But this a **bad** movie. Burton might not have had a 100% source-material-faithful interpretation of the character, but it to”
Gimlyread it ↗
“I absolutely hate Val Kilmer as Batman. Out of everybody that's played batman, he's the worse I've ever seen. Otherwise the movie wasn't that bad considering.”
Andre Gonzalesread it ↗
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