Batman Forever

"Courage now, truth always, Batman forever!"

1995 2h 1m EN

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★5.5TMDB · 5,768

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Synopsis

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Batman faces off against two foes: the schizophrenic, horribly scarred former District Attorney Harvey Dent, aka Two-Face, and the Riddler, a disgruntled ex-Wayne Enterprises inventor seeking revenge against his former employer by unleashing his brain-sucking weapon on Gotham City's residents. As the caped crusader also copes with tortured memories of his parents' murder, he has a new romance, with psychologist Chase Meridian.

“Courage now, truth always, Batman forever!”

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Cast

Val Kilmer
Batman / Bruce Wayne
Tommy Lee Jones
Harvey Two-Face / Harvey Dent
Jim Carrey
Riddler / Edward Nygma
Nicole Kidman
Dr. Chase Meridian
Chris O'Donnell
Robin / Dick Grayson
Michael Gough
Alfred Pennyworth
Pat Hingle
Commissioner Gordon
Drew Barrymore
Sugar

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Joel Schumacher
Writers: Akiva Goldsman, Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America, United Kingdom

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MONEY

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$100M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 3.4× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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31 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: United States of America, United Kingdom.

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5 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Batman Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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CAST

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275+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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7 / 8

ERA

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Directed by Joel Schumacher, shot by Stephen Goldblatt. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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8 / 8

ERA

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Original score by Elliot Goldenthal. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Joel Schumacher directs. Stephen Goldblatt behind the camera. Elliot Goldenthal scores. Mark Stevens cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America, United Kingdom. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

1$100M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Made its money back 3.4× over at the box office.
331 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
4International production across 2 countries: United States of America, United Kingdom.
5Part of the "Batman Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6275+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
7Directed by Joel Schumacher, shot by Stephen Goldblatt. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
8Original score by Elliot Goldenthal. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
9Editor Mark Stevens shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
10Val Kilmer and Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey carry the top of the cast.
11Marketing tagline: "Courage now, truth always, Batman forever!".
12IMDB entry: tt0112462 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
13Classified under 20 themes, including "riddle", "superhero", "villain", "rose".

The technical file

Cinematography: Stephen Goldblatt
Original score: Elliot Goldenthal
Editing: Mark Stevens
Production design: Barbara Ling
Costume design: Bob Ringwood
Makeup / hair: Ve Neill
VFX supervisor: Andrew Adamson
Sound: Lance Brown
Stunt coordinator: Conrad E. Palmisano
Runtime: 121 min · 2h 1m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $100,000,000
Box office: $336,529,144
Return: 337% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Batman Forever (1995)

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Batman Collection

The Batman Collection directed by Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher follows Bruce Wayne’s crusade against crime in Gotham. With iconic villains and stylized visuals, the series blends action, fantasy, and psychological depth to explore the duality of the masked vigilante.

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John Chard2014-08-28
★ 5/10
A different direction brings differing results. Batman takes on a new side kick as he fights to keep Gotham City out of the clutches of Two-Face and The Riddler. "No thanks, I'll get drive-thru" Thus these be the first words out of Val Kilmer's incarnation of Batman and thus setting the standard for what Joel Schumacher's two Batman movies would be like. Gone is the dark undertone from Tim Burton's visions, and the tight action sequences that marked Burton's debut out as a genuine genre piece of work, in their place comes sexy campery and ropey action set pieces. The casting of both Val Kilmer as Batman and Chris O'Donnell as Robin is a big mistake, Kilmer easily being the most boring actor to don the suit out of all of them, whilst O'Donnell simply can't act outside of Robin's cartoonery bravado. Nicole Kidman looks positively gorgeous as Chase Meridian, but that's all that is brought to the party, it's a waste of the very talented Kidman's ability and a waste of the audience's time. It's not all bad though, a comic book adaptation is only as good as its villains, and here we get a perfectly cast Jim Carrey as The Riddler, and a wildly over the top Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face. Carrey steals every scene he is in, it's almost too much, but as maniacal and exuberant as it is, it is the film's highlight and actually the film's saving grace (Tommy Lee Jones was reportedly unhappy from having his thunder stolen in the movie by Carrey). The script does work enough to make the story accessible to all ages, and there are enough crash bangs and wallops to entertain in that brain left at the door kind of way. This was the biggest hit of 1995, so the paying public lapped it up and paved the way for another Schumacher film in the franchise, but with all that star power wasted, and nipples on the rubber suits, it's hard to see now why it was so popular back then. 5/10
Gimly2018-03-18
★ 4/10
There are some great things in Batman Forever. Val Kilmer I think cops a bit too much flak for his go in the cape & cowl, he's certainly no sort of definitive Batman but I thought he did a fine job. The city has a crazy cool design, the Batmobile is updated in a wholly original way, and that neon street gang is some of the coolest shit I've ever seen put to screen. But this a bad movie. Burton might not have had a 100% source-material-faithful interpretation of the character, but it took Joel Schumacher (who usually I'm a big fan of) to ruin Batman altogether. Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product.
Andre Gonzales2023-04-25
★ 6/10
I absolutely hate Val Kilmer as Batman. Out of everybody that's played batman, he's the worse I've ever seen. Otherwise the movie wasn't that bad considering.