the problem with Batman & Robin was that it just doesn't belong in the same series as the first movie. The first movie was a very serious, dark take on Batman. Batman & Robin more closely resembled the 60's series. Batman Returns is terrible. Catwoman and the Penguin are my lest favorite Batman villains. It, as well, is too silly to be part of a series with the first film. I think the one I hate the most is Batman Forever, and I'll tell you why. From the first movie up to Forever, they showed you the back story of Batman, The Joker, Catwoman, the Penguin, and in Forever they did so with the Riddler and Robin. But when they had a character who had such an interesting back story as Two-Face, what do they do? No back story! The film begins and there is two-face fighting Batman! It was like we missed the first 20 minutes of the movie. No Harvey Dent getting injured and having his face deformed and going nuts. Harvey just starts off as two face. This of course brings to mind the casting stupidity of the first movie. You can call me a racist if you want, but throughout the history of the comics as far as I know, Harvey Dent/Two-Face was white and in Batman they cast Billy Dee Williams, an African American, in the part of Harvey Dent. Maybe it shouldn't matter and maybe two-face could be played by an African American, but obviously the studio didn't think so. When it came time to do Forever, how come they didn't get Williams to play the role of Two-Face? One can only assume that the studio didn't think an African American would be right for Two-Face. So why hire one to play Dent in the first movie.? When they were making the first movie, did they think there was no possibility of sequels? If I am making a Batman movie and I'm going to have Harvey Dent in it, wouldn't it make sense for me to cast someone in the role who would make a good Two-Face just in case I wanted to have Two Face be a villain in a sequel? It would seem to make sense to me. That is kind of like casting a whiny brat as someone who is going to turn into one of the cool villains in movie history. oh wait . . .
Sorry for the run-on paragraph.