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.

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.

I remember going to see this movie when I was just a little kid. I really wanted to see it bad, but I couldn't exactly drive to the theater since I was only six years old. I kept complaining to my dad that I wanted to see it, and eventually we went out to see it. But oh no! It isn't in the Washington theater anymore. We had to drive to another theater instead. Then we walked in during the end of the last one, so I always remember the convo scene at the end and that shot of them running out of the light.

Anyway, I bet my dad had a terrible time. There are like a handful of things that I like, but just because the movie is so dumb it can be fun to watch at times. This one makes Batman Returns look like a realistic drama.

"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.

Despite several plot holes, the film manages to be funny and provides moments of entertainment with absurd situations. So, don't expect a serious film, as is evident in the line 'no, I'm going to follow the path'. The actor chosen to play Robin appears to be too old for the role. As for the relationship with the old Batman films, I was unsure whether this film is a sequel or not, as I was expecting a connection to the previous films. And once again, a serious romance appears, something that has already happened in two previous Batman films, which seems repetitive

We often make a big deal nowadays about superhero movies being too corporate, safe and lacking in vision. Sometimes I wonder if we have Joel Schumacher to thank for that, because movies like _Batman Forever_ are a good argument as to why creatives shouldn't be given any artistic freedom whatsoever. Let's just face it: this isn't even that much better than _Batman and Robin_. Sure, the camp vibe is intentional, but Schumacher pushes it to such extremes that it's damn near impossible to get any fun out of it. Everything about this film is cringe. The continuous maximalist directing, the extremely theatrical performances, the dumb set pieces, the overblown music; it's all very lame. In fact, these movies are so lame that every subsequent Batman director has become scared to explore the inherent silliness of this character, even though it's incredibly obvious that that'd be the most refreshing direction for the character at this point in time. Look, I'm open to what Schumacher is trying here; I think we deserve a definitive lighthearted interpretation of the character. However, this attempt makes the wrong decision at every turn.

1.5/10

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.

There is absolutely nothing to applaud about this movie. EVERYTHING is shit... even the Blu-ray extras.

A Batman movie for kids…

tommy lee jones, jim carrey.. two great actors. i think the film is for childeren.

I am seeing while reading twitter, well, something better than I remembered, but much less than 1 and 2. That young man was Chris O'Donnell and Val Kilmer when he did something

Not my favorite Batman film. Just ok.

The first time I saw this I was just a little girl and I thought it was great! Seeing this now is such a disappointment. It almost looks like a film making fun of Batman than a Batman film.

This was so dumb that I hated it even as a kid. Tim Burton’s Batman movies were surely campy and over-the-top, but at least he had good taste. Schumacher’s were just awful in every aspect. While “Batman & Robin” can still entertain as a so-bad-it’s-good, I couldn’t find a single redeemable quality in “Batman Forever”. It's all so stilted, bloated, and dull that it gets painful to watch over time.

It’s also surprising how the whole cast could suck so badly; even potentially good actors manage to ruin everything. Val Kilmer does look better than Keaton in costume, but his performance is about as expressive as a brick wall. Jim Carrey goes obnoxiously on autopilot, and the worst part is that Tommy Lee Jones is constantly trying to stand out even more next to him. Not to mention Nicole Kidman as the horny shrink… and I thought this was their attempt at making Batman more family-friendly.

The addition of Robin and the great roles played by Jim Carrey and Tomy Lee Jones are a plus. Unfortunately, Kilmer is a failure...

It is terrible! I remember watching it only once or twice as a kid, unlike the Tim Burton's or Batman & Robin, which I saw I don't know how many times. I remembered The Riddler as an eccentric character, but boy! He isn't eccentric, he is pathetic. The direction of this film is one of the worst I've seen. Everything is bad except maybe for Robin's story. I would never watch it again.

I liked the first and second movies but I got to this one and after half an hour of the movie I was tired of it, everything in this story seemed very silly and the villains didn't convince me even though I already knew them, another thing is that I can't stand these women anymore blondes who are desperate for him, they have the personality of a potato, the cat woman was the only exception.
While Robin even putting the circus in the middle and showing his backstory didn't manage to make an intro of his past works.

I remembered that it was bad but after rewatching, it's even worse than I remembered.

Spectacular, but with too many effects.

Very good. This movie is not near as bad as many make it out to be. It all depends of taste and what you want out of a Batman movie. Some people can see merit in Batman Forever as much as the Time Burton movies and the Christopher Nolan movies. In some ways I like this one more.

Part of the Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher Batman series (1989–1997).
Batman (1989) https://trakt.tv/movies/batman-1989
Batman Returns (1992) https://trakt.tv/movies/batman-returns-1992
Batman Forever (1995) https://trakt.tv/movies/batman-forever-1995
Batman & Robin (1997) https://trakt.tv/movies/batman-robin-1997

Ok but Two-Face and Riddler slayed

first half was really good and funny, but then it became too silly and meh
but Carreys performance was awesome and very entertaining

The only redeeming factor of this travesty to the Batman/DC Universe is that it does eventually end.