“Batman & Robin” is an unusual film to say the least. Most comic book movies are cheesy and a bit silly. You only have to glance at the likes of “Spider-Man 3” or “Fantastic Four” but this is truly something else.

“Batman & Robin” takes every corny one liner and spins it on its head… violently. Batman (George Clooney “Ocean’s Twelve”), Robin (Chris O’Donnell “Batman Forever”) and even Batgirl (Alicia Silverstone) take on the hilarious Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger “Predator”), the clichéd Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman “Kill Bill”) and the equally clichéd Bane in a horrendous mixed bag of jokes and crazed antics.

Batman is played by George Clooney. He’s a really good choice but the horrible script makes him unable to help despite his valiant efforts. Robin is once again played Chris O’Donnell. He’s really whiny and I don’t care for him at all.  Alicia Silverstone is incredibly poor as the unentertaining Batgirl. She suffers from a bland backstory and weak lines. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the pun spouting Mr. Freeze. At least 90% of his dialog revolves around ice making him a tedious and non-captivating character but I do admit to occasionally chuckling at him. Uma Thurman is bland and extremely unentertaining as I feel she always is. She plays an overly feminine temptress and isn’t a good one at that. The movie is also littered with tons of other famous faces and sadly not even John Glover who did the voice for the Riddler in the cartoon of Batman is good. The only actor I felt was reasonable was Michael Gough who played Alfred.

“Batman & Robin” should be entertaining. It has several villains, lots of heroes and a tremendously large budget but the problem is that it wants to be both a legitimate “Batman” movie and a parody of one. It wants to be at a similar vibe to “Batman Forever” yet also once to be even campier than the 60s version. Although the movie is funny at points it’s weak and doesn’t feel on par with any of the other “Batman” movies.