Batman Forever

Batman Forever was another worrying example of how DC don’t know how to keep a successful movie franchise going strong. There was so much wrong with the 1995 movie that you could write about it all day, but let’s keep this concise.

For starters, the casting was all wrong. Having surprised everyone with the brilliant casting of Michael Keaton as Batman in the two previous movies, Val Kilmer just didn’t sit right with fans and critics alike.

It had the unique trait of being extremely busy, but very boring at the same time. Jim Carrey (The Riddler) and Tommy Lee Jones (Two-Face) did their best to improve matters with decent performances as villains, but it wasn’t enough. The movie took the franchise on a downhill path.