Batman Forever is probably the only movie I saw back to back at the theater. I enjoyed it a lot until I realized just how bad a lot of Batman's dialogue is. "I wouldn't fit in at a family pic-nic" or "I'll get drive-thru." I must have had my brain shut off when I saw it back to back. The movie is fun if you don't think about how bad it is compared to the 1989 film before it. Jim Carrey's over-acting along with Tommy Lee Jones' is a shame. Since they both would have been great in their roles if the film wasn’t so campy. If Carrey was told to tone it down and shut the F up and be more serious as the Riddler by a better director. He could have been great. Kilmer isn’t a bad Bruce Wayne and is a better Bruce Wayne than he is Batman. Maybe because he has better lines as just Bruce. I think the movie is well cast but the approach they took was definitely in the wrong direction. Batman & Robin is proof because that took a wrong direction and took the franchise straight off a cliff.

It feels more like a spoof. It's so bad it's entertaining. The amount of cringy one-liners is wild. The streetfight with the neon light was fun though.

In the hands of director Joel Schumacher the Batman series takes a massively wrong turn. Batman Forever is a semi-reboot that steers Batman into a more campy and lighthearted direction, and away from the dark, gothic vision of Tim Burton. After being spurned by the Wayne Corporation, Edward Nygma becomes the supervillain Riddler and teams up with Two-Face to take out Batman. The roles of Batman and Harvey Dent have been recast, and Gotham has been redesigned (for the worse). Tommy Lee Jones as Harvey Dent/Two-Face is given little to work with, and Jim Carrey hams it up as the Riddler. But the worst piece of casting is Val Kilmer as Batman. With Batman Forever the series sacrifices quality for stunt casting and becomes cartoonishly ridiculous.

Jim Carrey makes this movie watchable for me. His Riddler is odd, but I enjoyed it enough.

"DOES ANYBODY ELSE FEEL LIKE A FRIED EGG?!" This is such a hot mess. As bad as it is, I can't look away any time Two-Face or Riddler are on screen. It's bad but in the most entertaining of ways. I had way more fun watching this than I did with either of Burton's Batman films. It's a guilty pleasure of sorts.