Never mind a utility belt. This Batman (and Robin) have utility boots with built-in ice-skates. Holy Busted Franchise Batman!

casting arnie as mr freeze, who had that brainwave, also batgirl is particuarly dreadful.

Batman and batman returns are still rated 15, and let's not forget that batman was originally for kids...so here, along with the enjoyably daft batman forever, is a bat-film that little boys - and even, for the first time, thanks to uma thurman and alicia silverstone, little girls - can enjoy. I just watched this on blu-ray with the kids and while they ate up every scene (arnold schwarzenegger's mr freeze is an absolute scream if you're eight years old) while i was forced to eat humble pie and admit that, now that i have kids (which i didn't in 1997), i finally see what warner bros and joel schumacher were going for when they decided to lighten the tone and make a batman for younger bat-fans. Got kids? Leave your cynicism at the door, watch the dark knight again when they've gone to bed, and let them enjoy batman & robin for what it is: Sheer entertainment for pint-sized bat-fans.