Yes, it’s that bad.

Although, who doesn’t love icy puns?

For, there is only one absolute in this universe: Everything freezes…and BATMAN & ROBIN sucks.

Could this just be an overreaction to a mediocre superhero flick?

Or is it really one of the seven signs that the world will end on Friday?

Join me as we return to Schumachers Batcave…One.

After the wild success of BATMAN FOREVER, Warner Bros. grew anxious to sell that movies vision on steroids.

They found such a rising star on the hit showER.

Over the years, that notorious direction has developed its passionately vocal defenders.

I was awake and I went along with it.

Freeze on the Batman show.

Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is robbing the diamond exhibit at a nearby museum.

After a heroic effort, the old chums fail to capture the chilling criminal.

But one taste of THIS apple means death from her venomous lips.

Green with envy, Ivy frames the enchanted Batman and Robin for the wifes death.

In his rage, Mr.

Unfortunately, she finds out about Bruce and Dicks secret nightlife.

Luckily, she decides to join them in her own skintight rubber suit designed months earlier by Alfred.

She has become Batgirl!

Together, they form a triple threat to Freeze, Ivy and Banes Unholy Trinity.

Can they stop them in time?

Lets cut to the chase, BATMAN & ROBIN is a messy and ugly film.

In small doses, the neon lighting and steady barrage of 80s day-glow could be mildly amusing in FOREVER.

However, it is not the campy tone and jokes that does this movie in.

Its that the delivery of those jokes is so coldly off.

This 1997 travesty is a different kind of humor.

It is gaudy, dumb and uninterested with actually being clever.

Bane, acting nothing like Tom Hardy, leaves no impression at all.

Schwarzeneggers performance is one for the ages here.

The terrible one-liners make for both the movies fatal blow and the icing on the cake.

Otherwise, it culd have been just awful enough to make a lot of money.

BATMAN & ROBINS greatest achievement is being so bad that it did the impossible.

It killed the Batman.

Before its release, Warner Bros. was already preparing a tentatively titled BATMAN TRIUMPHANT sequel.

So honestly, I cannot hate this train wreck of a movie.

It IS hideous looking.

It IS insulting to its source material.

But without it, we would not be enjoying THE DARK KNIGHT RISES this month.

And dammit, those ice puns can be pretty funny.

Even if how they relentlessly pound away at your soul is numbing.

In one scene, Freeze shouts, What killed the dinosaurs?

THE ICE AGE!!

Perhaps, but this movie could have gotten the job done just as well.

It certainly killed the franchise in its current form.

For that, we can all say, Thank you, to the frosty abomination.