Warner Bros. George Clooney carefully chose his next films after the failure of 1997's "Batman & Robin." He next starred in "Out of Sight," "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "Three Kings." Clooney told Variety that the three films, which did moderately well, all had great screenplays. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. NEW LOOK Answer: Yes, the excessive campiness was one of the film's major downfalls. Batman and Robin veered too far into a cartoonish, campy style, which alienated fans who appreciated the darker and more serious tone of previous Batman films. The film's heavy reliance on cheesy one-liners and ridiculous gadgets detracted from any sense of realism. 4. It's a matter of the director having a specific vision of how his Batman stories will become. In the first two films, Christopher Nolan wanted to bring Batman back to his roots, explore how Bruce Wayne became Batman, and how Batman became the legend he is (in the 1989 Batman film, when Vicki Vale asks Bruce why bats, he replies "They're great survivors"; in Batman Forever, we get a VERY brief Producer Michael Uslan opens up on why Batman & Robin came up short in 1997. Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin is infamous for how badly it performed with fans upon its release in 1997, and in retrospect, producer Michael Uslan believes he knows what went wrong with the big-budget film. Is the movie a masterpiece or just horrible? We're making a case for both scenarios! Famously, or perhaps infamously, Batman and Robin ended the original Batman series of films and killed off the comic book genre for a period of time. Batman & Robin represents the most cynical aspects of the studio system when it comes to making a movie, but such monumental failure still towers in engraved permafrost above passably faded Here are just some of the things that make this movie awful. 1) Geroge Clooney as Batman While Val Kilmer's performance as the Caped Crusader in Batman Forever was just kind of dull, Clooney tries his best with the material he's given. Batman And Robin isn't a good movie but in an interview Clooney gave with Michelle Pfeiffer, he explained why it didn't destroy his career. He said: He said: "After 'Batman & Robin' came out, and it was a big bomb — you learn from your failures; you don't learn from successes. Batman & Robin was the first of this Batman series to not involve Tim Burton at all. Burton directed the first two, then handed the reins to Joel Schumacher for Batman Forever while staying In theory, Batman/Bruce Wayne could have been a perfect role for Clooney. Unfortunately, the movie's version of the billionaire crimefighter was devoid of the actor's usual charm, and George Clooney hated his Batman & Robin performance for a few reasons. LaSNOc.