

However, I can envision this Batman going too far with his crimefighting, akin to when Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man said in Spider-Man: No Way Home that he stopped pulling his punches after Gwen Stacy’s death in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Given that Michael Keaton’s Batman lives in a world that isn’t populated with metahumans and other more fantastical technology like the DCEU is, I’m hesitant to think that he went so far as to develop/obtain a way to time travel, but failed to change the past.

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While appearing on CinemaBlend’s Reelblend podcast alongside his sister/producer Barbara Muschietti, Muschietti told hosts Jake Hamilton, Kevin McCarthy and our own Sean O’Connell that it was important for Keaton’s version of Bruce Wayne to be in a significantly different place compared to where audiences left off with him in 1992’s Batman Returns, saying: Now director Andy Muschietti has teased the reason for why this Bruce Wayne quit being Batman.īack in March, we got our first confirmation from merchandise that Keaton’s Batman has “long been retired as Gotham City’s protector,” and The Flash trailer released in April teased this through the Batcave looking like it hadn’t been used in a long time. However, when Barry makes his way into another reality in The Flash movie, he’ll meet Michael Keaton’s Batman, who’s not only a few decades older than Affleck’s version, but has also long been retired from vigilantism. In the DC Extended Universe, Ben Affleck’s Batman is still active and fighting crime both solo and with his fellow Justice Leaguers, including Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen, a.k.a.

It’s memorable for all the wrong reasons, leaving you either laughing or shaking your head.Michael Keaton's Batman piloting Batplane in The Flash movie In almost every way, Batman & Robin is a disappointment, barely cobbling together a cohesive story. The action scenes deliver some mindless and occasionally comedic enjoyment, but even then, it comes with a barrage of underwhelming special effects and awkward sound design. The story itself is convoluted, often illogical, and packed with annoying characters.īy completely abandoning the franchise’s darker and more serious themes with a script full of puns and sexual innuendos, Batman & Robin loses all of the charm that the series once had. Overall, Batman & Robin tries its best to pay homage to the sillier elements of the Adam West-era Batman series, but it falls flat. Where other superhero movies manage to balance the realism of everyday life with surreal heroics, Batman & Robin completely jumps the shark. The ridiculous script and wooden acting from most of the cast make things even worse.
