Batman & Robin The Official Batman & Robin Thread - Part 1

[AndrewGilkison]

No ****, Uma. It was basically a toy commercial.

 

[Mani-Man]

Uma Thurman Says ‘Batman & Robin’ Film Was “Actually Made For Children”

Uma Thurman is clearing up who the intended audience for 1997's Batman & Robin was for.

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That is not new.
We know this.
We know it was targeted to kids and especially to sell kids toys.
And as that it did its job quite well.
Forever and B&R are for kids back in the day like a comic coming to life.

 

[Drizzle]

One could argue that Batman Begins was the first Batman movie made where the primary purpose wasn't marketing to kids.

 

[Kane52630]

Do people not read the context of the quotes? She was on the Kelly Clarkson show where it got brought up.

it's not like she made some grand statement.

 

[J.Drangal]

Well, it certainly worked for me as a kid.

Absolutely!

That whole opening scene, from the museum through space frontier to the sewer, totally blew me away as a kid. The batmobile driving over the statues was great too.
Sure these action scenes were completely over the top, but damn, how can a kid not run around with his action figures after that!

Do people not read the context of the quotes? She was on the Kelly Clarkson show where it got brought up.

it's not like she made some grand statement.

Hey hey... We're on the Internet... Nobody's got time for that.

 

[Herofan]

That is not new.
We know this.
We know it was targeted to kids and especially to sell kids toys.
And as that it did its job quite well.
Forever and B&R are for kids back in the day like a comic coming to life.

Not sure but I think a lot of people who were kids then came to still like BF a lot, not B&R, or some even felt differently about B&R back then.

Personally at 6 I loved BF but then 2 years later just wasn't interested in B&R (Arnold, Mr. Freeze, Arnold as Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy didn't seem real interesting), watched the latter part of it it on TV and was meh, then watched the whole thing at 14 or 15 and by then completely disliked it.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

One could argue that Batman Begins was the first Batman movie made where the primary purpose wasn't marketing to kids.

Nolan may not have cared about toys (like Burton), but WB most certainly did. BB was simply the least toyetic of the bunch.

 

[Herofan]

One could argue that Batman Begins was the first Batman movie made where the primary purpose wasn't marketing to kids.

That was the studio's hope with all of them but I think with BR Burton had much more interest in going very artistic including disturbing and much more influence on the final product and it could appeal to kids somewhat but not much, was mostly not intended to.

I think most good films for general viewers rather than super-intended to appeal to kids, a lot of them will still like them a lot as well.

 

[Drizzle]

Nolan may not have cared about toys (like Burton), but WB most certainly did. BB was simply the least toyetic of the bunch.

True but it didn't come at the expense of throwing stuff into the story to sell toys like the previous movies where it was "Let's give Batman a new Batmobile, a new Batwing and a new Batboat all in the same movie!"

 

[C. Lee]

To me, B&R was a throwback to West's BATMAN series. And since I was a fan of West's series I had fun with it.

 

[Scarlet Spider]

 

[Kane52630]