Release: May 23, 2008
Movie: Batman & Robin (1997)
This review contains examples of:
- Bad "Bad Acting": At one point he tries to swap himself out with an obvious dummy with pre-recorded lines saying things like "I hate this. I wish I could kill myself", etc, in a totally flat voice.
- Berserk Button: Doug is now forever forced to reenact his rage from this episode whenever someone at a con says "Bat credit card!"
- Bond Villain Stupidity: Referenced:Mr. Freeze: Your emotions make you weak. That's why this day is mine! I'll kill you next time!
Critic: Why not kill him now??
Bruce Wayne: (out of context clip) I wish I knew. - Call-Back: To the Street Fighter review.Critic: So the story centers around our main heroes Batman, played by George Clooney, and Robin, played by Chris O'Donnell, as they plan to stop the evil Mr. Freeze from, you guessed it, taking over the world.
M. Bison: Of COURSE!- Not once, but twice:Critic: By using her love of deadly plants, Poison Ivy's diabolical goal is to, you guessed it, take over the world.
M. Bison: Of COURSE!
- Not once, but twice:
- Chewbacca Defense: According to the Critic, Batman and Robin is so bad lawyers are actually using it as an argument that at least their clients' crimes aren't as heinous as directing the film.
- Chroma Key: During the Mary Poppins parody.
- Cyanide Pill: Out of all the ways the team made sure the Critic couldn't kill himself while reviewing this movie, they forgot to deprive him of this. He barely gets into the movie before he tries to take it and is then forced to spit it out.
- Driven to Suicide: The Critic is really inclined to die rather than sit through the film.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: His reaction to the infamous Bat Credit Card scene.Critic: A Bat... Credit Card...? They gave him a Bat Credit Card? They have the BALLS to give one of the greatest superheroes of all time... a Bat Credit Card?!?! NO!!! NO!!! Does not compute! Does not compute!!! *Rants*
- Obligatory Joke: "The Ambiguously Gay Duo!"
- Pop Quiz:Critic: Mr. Freeze is stealing a diamond that apparently powers his subzero suit. Apart from that, his only goal seems to be making jokes about a subject matter that unfortunately lends itself to a lot of insufferable puns, and I'll give you four guesses as to what that subject matter is:
A: Celebrity gossip,
B: Political satire.
C: Family dilemmas
Or
D: Ice
(cut to a montage of movie clips where Mr. Freezes makes lots of ice puns)
Critic: If your answer was D, no fucking shit!
Mr. Freeze: (out of context clip) Thanks for playing. - Rule of Three: The Critic freaks out three times in a row over the Bat Credit Card.
- Screams Like a Little Girl: After the Critic thinks that the movie has devolved into something akin to the campy Batman TV show of the 1960s, he screams, "HEEEEEELLLLLP!!", in a high-pitch voice.
- Shout-Out:
- The Critic claims that Batman and Robin is a form of execution practiced in parts of the Far East, while showing the "Take him to Detroit" scene from The Kentucky Fried Movie (though said line was dubbed out with gibberish and subtitled "Show him Batman & Robin").
- When Poison Ivy is about to be defeated, the Critic dares her to say "Curses!", and says "I double dare you, mothafucka!" in the style of Jules from Pulp Fiction.
- Song Parody: At the end of the review, The Critic sings a parody of "Supercalifragilisticexpialadocious", which he renames as "Supercrapafuckerrificexpialibullshit".
- Tempting Fate:
- Critic repeatedly makes comments in the style of "the only way this could be [worse/more cliched/etc] is if X happened," followed by it actually happening, and a pained reaction from Critic. He finally smartens up the fourth time, and demands that Ivy says "curses!" after her plans are foiled, she does, he goes crazy.
- Near the start of the review, the Critic watches the beginning of the film and comments, "Well this isn't so bad. They're just suiting up, there's the Batmobile, the music's nice... Maybe this won't be so horrible after all." He is immediately Driven to Suicide as soon as Robin and Batman say their first lines.
