Batman & Robin, the motion picture, is back on Stan. ![]() And if that’s too outlandish for you, fear not – there’s no stopping this Batsled. If you can make it through the Action Adventure’s full, feverish, chaotic runtime, you can make it through lockdown. So 90s It Hurts: Batman & Robin: On the 20th anniversary of the release of Batman & Robin, we look back at the 1990s tropes and hallmarks of this unforgettable superhero movie. So if seven seasons of Mad Men feels like a slog, then it’s time to crank the heaters and suit up for an audio superhero odyssey. Neither Batman & Robin: An Audio Action Adventure, or the hot room, make sense – but right now nothing does. My most memorable teenage listening session of the Audio Adventure took place at Andrew’s parents’ place, among clouds of smoke, in one of many teenage “hot rooms”: a ritualistic process in which the smallest possible rooms of absent parents’ houses were packed with multiple heaters, becoming dank folkloric caves to shield us from brutal Wellington winters (which somehow feels connected to the film’s plot). ![]() Another friend, Adrian, theorised that “it was intended for parents to put on for their six-year-old, and tell them to shut up and eat their cheese and apple”. My friend Andrew found the Audio Adventure CD in a Wellington record store sales bin. Giving Sub Zero the Mr Freeze quotes makes him not just the coolest of freezy puns, but the frozen one as well. Despite Clooney’s fears they had “just killed the franchise” this thing has legs, wings, or tendrils, stalactites even, that extend far beyond the film proper and remain frozen in the cultural ether.įor one, Batman & Robin has an excellent soundtrack, featuring an at-the-height-of-their-powers Smashing Pumpkins, Jewel’s classic Foolish Games, a Bone Thugs-n-Harmony banger, and a hectic techno sermon from Underworld. 'Chicks like you give women a bad name.' Well said, Batgirl, well said. 'Never leave the cave without it.' Ah.the Bat credit card (expiration date FOREVER). 'My garden needs tending.' Poison Ivy can be just as innuendo-tastic as you, Freeze 6. It was dropped from Binge a week before the original publication date, subsequently directing our attention to the film’s wild cultural byproducts. Freeze, chill out with the sex stuff (pun intended). And how Poison Ivy was afforded far more complexity of character than Nolan (a known sideliner of female characters) gave to Anne Hathaway’s Catwoman or how Mr Freeze’s escape rocket was clearly the prototype for Jeff Bezos’s “anthropomorphic” spaceship.Īnalysing the film for this column, though, has been fraught. ![]() Looking back on the film, it’s remarkable to see how far we’ve come from the homophobic and insecure criticisms of the film’s hot introduction of nippled Batsuits. Uma Thurman’s Poison Ivy character was afforded far more complexity than Anne Hathaway’s Catwoman years later.
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