George Clooney reflects on his "terrible" performance in Batman & Robin

Batman & Robin
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One Batman movie that doesn’t get as much love as its counterparts is 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Batman & Robin. Directed by Joel Schumacher, the film dialled the campiness of its predecessor, Batman Forever, up to 11 – and featured George Clooney as the eponymo♏us Dark Knight, replacing Val Kilmer.

Clooney reflected on his time as Batman to , and he didn’t look back fondly: “The only way you can honestly talk about things is to♚ include yourself and your shortcomings in those things,” the actor said. 

“Like, when I say Batman & Robin’s a terrible film, I always go, 'I was terrib෴le in it.' Because I was, number one. But also because then it allows you the ability to say, 'Having said I sucked in it, I can also say that none of these other elements worked, either.' You know? Lines like 'Freeze, Freeze!'”

The role of Mr Freeze was played with pun-tastic humour by Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose wo♋rdplay included gems like “You are not sending me to the cooler.” He was joined by Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy, whose lines were equally playful (“Sorry, my vines have a crush on you”).

Sadly, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Schumacher died earlier in 2020. His death prompted fans to launch a campaign to release the “Schumacher Cut” of Batman Forever, an apparently more serious version of the movie. reports that a longer, darker cut of the film does exist, but notes that even if the footage has surviv🔯ed all these years, aspects of the movie like colour grading and sound mixing would probably need to be updated.

Writer Marc Bernardin also tweeted in July꧋: “I have it on VERY good authority that a 170-minute cut of Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever exists. Warner Bros. is unsure if there's any hunger for what was described to me as a 'much darker, more seriꦛous' version. So, should WB #ReleaseThe20000Cut?”. A poll added to the tweet had the “yes” vote as the clear winner.

Considering 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Zack Snyder’s Justice League is finally going to see the light of day, why not the Schumacher Cut too? As for Batm꧅an & Rob❀in, despite Clooney’s unhappiness with the movie, there’s still something to love in all that brightly coloured chaos.

Until the Dark Knight returns to our screens with his next solo outing, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Batman, check out our guide to watching 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:DC movies in order for a superhero movie marathon.

Molly Edwards
Deputy Entertainment Editor

I'm the Deputy Entertainment Editor here at GamesRadar+, covering all things film and TV for the site's Total Film and SFX sections. I previously worked on the 🐻Disney magazines team at Immediate Media, and also wrote on the CBeebies, MEGA!, and Star Wars Galaxy titles after graduating with a BA in English.