Director: Joel Schumacher
Studio: Warner Home Video
Genre: Action & Adventure
Theatrical: 1995   Starring: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Chris O'Donnell
Rated: Parental Guidance
Summary: When Tim Burton and Michael Keaton announced that they'd had enough of the "Batman" franchise, director JoelSchumacher stepped in (with Burton as coproducer) to make this action-packed extravaganza starring Val Kilmer as the capedcrusader. Batman is up against two of Gotham City's most colourful criminals, the Riddler (a role tailor-made for funnyman Jim Carrey) and the diabolical Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones), who join forces to conquer Gotham's population with a brain-draining device. Nicole Kidman plays the seductive psychologist who wants to know what makes Batman tick. Boasting a redesigned Batmobile and plenty of new Bat hardware, "Batman Forever" also introduces Robin the Boy Wonder (Chris O'Donnell) whose close alliance with Batman led more than afew critics to ponder the series' homoerotic subtext. No matter how you interpret it, Schumacher's take on the "Batman" legacy is simultaneously amusing, lavishly epic and prone to chronic sensory overload. "--Jeff Shannon"