'Jimmy.'
'What a scoop!'
Welcome back to my Dark Corner of this Sick World.
‘I hate it when people talk during the movie’
This week we ask the big question:
What is the worst 4th part franchise killer; Superman IV Quest for Peace?
'Boring'
Or Batman and Robin?
There is something about an anatomically correct rubber suit...
The only film in which the Statue of Liberty flies back and forth across the screen...
Or the only film to be written entirely in puns.
'Let's kick some ice.'
'Enough monkey buisness.'
'So this is where you hang out.'
Let’s see how they square off.
‘A day of reckoning is coming’
Hero-wise Christopher Reeve is the definitive Superman.
‘He’s trustworthy, he's helpful, he's loyal
George Clooney is in Batman and Robin.
'Chicks dig the car.'
‘This is why Superman works alone’
Oh yeah, and him.
'I want a Robin signal in the sky.'
Me too. On the villain front Gene Hackman is clearly done giving a shit as Lex Luthor.
‘A true genius like myself learns to seize the moment’
Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy seems determined to erase any memory that she was ever an actress.
‘I have spent my life tryng to protect plants from extinction nd now you corrupt my research
...into some maniacal scheme for world domination.
There’s Captain Scratchy.
And of course the Governator.
‘If I must suffer, humanity will suffer with me’
Hey at least you got paid .
‘Wow’
Elsewhere, Batman’s toughest adversary is reduced to a grunting chauffeur.
'Gotham Observatory Bane. And step on it.'
And Superman comes face to face with that guy from 2 ½ Men.
‘Oh no’
Also we get batgirl.
'I took the liberty to create something in your size.'
'Suit me up Uncle Alfred.'
Her uncle designed this?
‘Time to scream’
Neither movie has any time for science as the population of Gotham can be frozen and defrosted without ill effects.
'Everything the hard way.'
And Mariel Hemmingway can not only breathe in space but also appears to be falling.
Both films introduce previously unseen powers for their heroes,
Superman’s Great Wall rebuild-o-vision.
and Batman’s...
'KA-CHING SOUND EFFECT'
'Never leave the cave without it.'
Oh, that’s just depressing.
'I can respect your opinion, sadly I am not good at rejection.'
In special effects terms, Superman has the shoddiest blue screen ever.
And saves money by re-using the same flying shots over and over.
While Batman has this embarrassingly bad Little Shop of Horrors knock-off.
'Once you have frozen mankind, these babies will over run the globe.'
And some magic beans.
'Good babies. Grow for mummy.'
But what matters is story.
‘Not good’
Script.
'Tedious.'
Superman’s story was partly crafted by Reeve himself.
‘I know I’m forbidden to interfere’
Who insisted that Superman tackle nuclear arms proliferation.
‘Now darn it Clark, why are you so stubborn?’
Very laudable.
‘I’m going to rid our planet of all nuclear weapons’
Not sure about how its handled.
Meanwhile Lex Luthor attaches Superman’s DNA to a missile which Superman hurls into
the sun, inadvertently creating.
The star child from 2001 a space odyssey.
That this happens at all is odd...
'Destory Superman.'
That he’s born fully dressed is baffling.
'We need enough material for the high moral standards.'
Only he can take out Superman.
And if you think Superman being scratched to death is silly, check out the Nuclear man’s weakness.
'He get's his energy from the sun.'
'Without it, he is like you at night. Useless.'
A solar powered bad guy is not this hard to beat!
Especially since they chase round the earth.
Half of which will be in darkness!
‘Stop! Stop! That’s enough!’
The plot for Batman and Robin is basically: this man wants to save his dying wife.
This woman wants to save the planet.
‘A proposal that shows how Wayne enterprises can immediately cease toxifying the environment’
But fortunately both are stopped by a billionaire playboy.
‘Am I pig-headed?’
There’s a little more to it, Freeze wants to freeze the earth.
‘First Gotham, then the world!’
Poison Ivy wants plants to rule the earth.
‘A chance for mother nature to start again’
Naturally they team up, given those wholly compatible goals;
Take that pot plant off the window sill and put it in the freezer. Watch it bloom
‘Who is this nutball?’
The question isn’t which film is worse,
it’s how was either made?
‘How indeed?’
But if I had to pick one, I’d say Batman and Robin is worse.
‘I can’t believe it’
'I know.'
Superman is just as bad.
‘Geez, what a jerk’
But its budget was slashed by almost 20 million and its runtime cut by ¾ of an hour.
‘I don’t think it’s going to be very good news’
Admittedly Joel Schumacher was under studio orders to make Batman and Robin more kiddie
friendly but, in the end, he left this sort of thing in.
While Superman had the sense to cut this scene out.
We choose Banman and Robin, but what's your pick for worst Superhero sequel of all time?
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