Holy Bat BS!

In the latest episode of The Onion's excellent "Commentary Tracks of the Damned," which reviews the DVD commentaries accompanying choice awful flicks, we find out what director Joel Schumacher has to say for himself about the "clattering, headache-inducing monstrosity that's like a cross between a theme-park ride and a campy Broadway show" that is "Batman and Robin." It underscores why this movie is missing from my collection of Batman movie DVDs. And why Schmacher has become a negative verb in some fanboy circles, as in, "I'm so afraid they are going to Schmacher X-Men 3."

This was a terrible movie that tried to cram way way too much into it and I think Schumacher is right when he says it was to sell more toys. I'm skeptical of his claim as the victim. But in hindsight, killing off that incarnation of the Bat movie franchise did one good thing: allowed its wonderful rebirth this year in Batman Begins, possibly my favorite movie of the year (which is hard for this diehard Star Wars fan to say).

Commentary Tracks of the Damned: Batman and Robin [The Onion]