Batman & Robin
Batman & Robin is an American comic adaptation by Joel Schumacher from 1997. It can be regarded as the fourth and final part of the Batman series, which began with Batman (1989), Batman's Return (1992) and Batman Forever (1995) had been. The film opened in German cinemas on June 26, 1997.
action
The film begins when Batman and Robin stop a Mr. Freeze robbery , but Freeze escapes.
In South America, Pamela Isley works with Dr. Jason Woodrue from many poisons. She overhears Woodrue using one of the poisons to turn a weak convict into a powerful and monstrous man; Woodrue calls him Bane . Woodrue and Isley discuss the dangerous use of the poison, whereupon Woodrue pushes Isley onto a table full of poisons. The poisons fall on her and Isley sinks to the floor. She transforms into the beautiful and seductive Poison Ivy before killing Woodrue with a poisonous kiss. She finds out that Woodrue was funded by Wayne Enterprises, the company owned by Bruce Wayne aka Batman; so she travels to Gotham City with Bane .
Meanwhile, Alfred Pennyworth's niece , Barbara Wilson, surprises him with a visit. Wayne invites her to stay at Wayne Manor until she has to go back to school.
Wayne Enterprises presents a new telescope at a press conference, which Isley interrupted. She suggests a project that could help the environment, but Wayne declines her offer because it would kill millions of people. A Wayne Enterprises charity ceremony is held that night; with special guests: Batman and Robin. Ivy decides to use her skills and seduces the two heroes. But Freeze rushes into the party and steals a diamond from the celebration. He can be caught and captured by Batman after a chase, with Batman stopping Robin in the middle of the chase because he doesn't trust him to make a risky jump. As a result, there is increased tension between the two. Freeze arrives at Arkham Asylum Prison . With the help of Ivy and Bane, he can escape again.
Ivy pulls the plug from the facility that keeps Mr. Freeze's wife alive and tells Freeze that it was Batman and Robin. This increases Freeze's hatred of both. Ivy suggests using the Wayne Enterprises telescope as an ice cannon to freeze Gotham, and then the whole world. Once everything is buried under ice, Ivy's plants would spread all over the world.
Since the chase with Mr. Freeze, Batman and Robin often argue, which is compounded by the presence of Ivy and her seductive abilities towards Robin. Ivy, who can seduce people and kill them with a mere kiss, is finally able to contact Robin again, but fails to seduce him again. They do kiss, but Robin can protect himself from their poison with a layer of latex over his lips. Then Robin is captured by her, but saved by Batman, who can also be outwitted by Ivy. Batgirl appears and locks Ivy in her own plants. Batgirl says that she is Wilson and that she knows the location of the Bath Cave.
Batman, Robin, and Batgirl decide to go after Freeze together. They make it to the lab where Freeze and Bane are. Gotham is already completely frozen. Robin and Batgirl fight Bane and are able to defeat him by removing the toxic tubes from his body that make him strong. At the same time, Batman fights Mr. Freeze and beats him in a fight. But Freeze tries to destroy Batman by destroying the platform with the telescope on it. However, this only has the effect that Bane sinks under the rubble. Batgirl and Robin thaw Gotham, and Batman shows Freeze a shot of Ivy fighting Batgirl. Freeze realizes that Ivy betrayed him about his wife's death. Ivy had accused Batman of killing Nora, Freeze's frozen wife. Freeze is upset by the deception and Batman tells him that his wife survived. She is in deep cryogenic sleep and was brought to Arkham for Freeze to finish his research. Batman also asks Freeze for a cure he created for the first stage of MacGregor Syndrome, the disease his wife suffers from. Batman needs this for his dying friend and butler Alfred Pennyworth. Freeze makes up for his misunderstanding by giving Batman the medicine.
Ivy is now stuck in Arkham Asylum, where she receives a visit from Freeze, who promises her to turn her life into a living hell of winter. Pennyworth is ultimately cured and everyone wants Wilson to stay with them.
Similar to Batman Forever , the film ends with the image of the Bat signal from which Batman, Robin and now Batgirl run towards the camera.
Differences between film and comic
While Bane's clothes are more in line with the comic book here than in The Dark Knight Rises , the film adaptation of Christopher Nolan , his backstory has been radically changed. Here he is a dumb, unknown thug who obviously has disturbances in the perception of his surroundings. In the comics, however, Bane is a brilliant strategist who could empathize with other people's personalities. In addition, Bane is a weak, short man in the film, who only becomes so big and superhumanly strong through the Venom. In the comic, Bane was battle-tested and strong even without the drug.
At Batgirl , the family relationship has changed. In the comics, she is not Alfred Pennyworth's niece , but Commissioner Gordon's daughter .
synchronization
Dubbing company: Berliner Synchron GmbH Wenzel Lüdecke .
Dialogue book: Johanna Schneider.
Dialogue director: Thomas Danneberg .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Victor Fries / Mr. Freeze | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Thomas Danneberg |
| Bruce Wayne / Batman | George Clooney | Detlef Bierstedt |
| Dick Grayson / Robin | Chris O'Donnell | Frank Schröder |
| Dr. Pamela Isley / Poison Ivy | Uma Thurman | Petra Barthel |
| Barbara Wilson / Batgirl | Alicia Silverstone | Dascha Lehmann |
| Alfred Pennyworth | Michael Gough | Friedrich Schoenfelder |
| Commissioner James Gordon | Pat Hingle | Hans Teuscher |
| Dr. Jason Woodrue | John Glover | Arne Elsholtz |
| Julie Madison | Elle MacPherson | Bettina White |
| Ms. B. Haven | Vivica A. Fox | Ulrike Stürzbecher |
| Gossip Gerty | Elizabeth Sanders | Liane Rudolph |
Reviews
The film received mostly negative reviews. The film review portal Rotten Tomatoes gives 11% positive reviews for the film and it has a Metascore of 28 out of 100 on Metacritic .
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on June 20, 1997 that filmmakers should focus more on characters rather than special effects. The film is "wonderful to watch", but it is "essentially not authentic". In particular, fans were disappointed with the portrayal of the Bane . One of Batman's most dangerous opponents in the comics, he was demoted to a dumb thug in the film.
The figure drawings appealed to the lexicon of international film ; “Her deeds are described in an episodic, yet stringent form, in which the action element predominates, but the tragedy of evil is given particular weight. The elaborate equipment is based on the one hand on the 30s comics, on the other hand nourished from style quotations from Gothic to Futurism to 70s chic, which seems to deny a clear utopia. Puns and a well-measured pace ensure entertainment value. "
Gross profit
The fourth film in the Batman franchise, which began with Tim Burton's Batman , was not particularly successful at the box office - it grossed just $ 238 million. Not only did Batman & Robin fall short of expectations, the press also gave it the blemish of a flop and bad reviews. This failure led to the discontinuation of the front row. In 2005 a new film ( Batman Begins ) with Christian Bale as Batman came into the cinemas, which is not a sequel to Batman & Robin, but rather the first part of a second, new Batman film series.
Awards
The film Batman & Robin received eleven nominations for the Golden Raspberry in 1998. The raspberry only won Alicia Silverstone for Worst Supporting Actress, however.
At the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, the two actors Chris O'Donnell and Uma Thurman received an award in the field of science fiction . Arnold Schwarzenegger and Alicia Silverstone were nominated for the same award. In 1998 the film was nominated for the Saturn Award in three categories, including “Best Fantasy Film”.
Elliot Goldenthal won the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Film & Television Music Award in 1998.
novel
- 1997: Michael Jan Friedman : Batman & Robin , Rowohlt Tb. Verlag, ISBN 978-3-4992-2240-5
Web links
- Batman & Robin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Batman & Robin at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Everything about the Batman films on www.batmannews.de
- Comparison of the cut versions RTL 2 afternoon - FSK 12 by Batman & Robin at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Batman & Robin in the German dubbing index ; accessed on August 16, 2016
- ↑ Batman & Robin at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- ↑ Batman & Robin at Metacritic (English)
- ^ Review by Roger Ebert
- ^ Batman & Robin. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .