This time out, our psychologically damaged superhero (played by Val Kilmer, whose lips make him look like Michael Keaton when he's under the mask) is the object of revenge by a pair of very different villains - Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones) and The Riddler (Jim Carrey), who eventually team up to go after him. But it's also a fast-paced, visually stunning, wild-eyed action flick that has cleaned up the language, violence and sexuality enough that parents won't mind if their kids go back to see it again. The motion picture equivalent of a Twinkie, this is simple, high-cholesterol entertainment that doesn't pretend to be anything else. Where pictures like "Die Hard With a Vengeance," with its R-rated excesses and racial pretensions, and "Casper," a comedy for the preteen set that somehow feels the need to explore the afterlife, will probably do a slow fade after early box-office splashes, "Batman Forever" seems more likely to hang on throughout the summer - and beyond - simply because it is so satisfied with being just what it is. OK, so maybe that's a grade-school question.īut in the cinematic world of commercial cunning, "Batman Forever" would seem to have all the elements properly fitted together.
Riddle me this: What's critic-proof, will set opening-day box-office records and simply cannot be too loud or bombastic for its audience?
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