Rummaging through the bonus features, I noticed an interesting clip featuring an interview with director Joel Schumacher, on the DVD Special Features for Batman & Robin. At a specific part of the interview, he actually apologized for the movie. Watch for yourself: Featurette Gallery: "Beyond Batman" (SD, 44 minutes) - Beginning with 'Batman,' each Blu-ray gets its own additional gallery of new production featurettes, which delve much more deeply into the production design, art and costume direction, and stunts of each film. Less controversial or surprisingly, they are nevertheless nicely done, and culled from the same batch of new and archival interview material as the "Shadows of the Bat" doc. It's also nice to see Danny Elfman getting some love here, as he really isn't represented anywhere else on this set. Making fun of 'Batman & Robin' is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel, and about as depressing. Where to start? How about the ridiculous, redesigned Batman and Robin costumes? (Silver accents and big nipples, um, really?) Or casting Alicia Silverstone as the super-annoying Batgirl (does this movie even need yet another character?) How about Arnold Schwarzenegger's awful, awful Iceman quips, which make his Terminator line-readings seem like Proust. And even the best performance in the movie -- Uma Thurman's Poison Ivy -- is only good by comparison to the atrociousness of the rest of the film. Music Video (SD) - Rounding out this disc is a music video for Siouxie and the Banshee's "Face to Face." They were always an underrated group, though this is not really one of their best tunes. Riddle Me This: Why is Batman Forever, which examines how a new director and cast created a new version of Gotham's classic heroes and villains

The franchise won the title of Batman Anthology in 2005, with the launch of Box Batman: The Motion Picture Anthology who included 2-disc special edition DVDs of the Burton/Schumacher Batman films. After the success of The Batman, several spin-off TV series were put into production for HBO. The first was scheduled was The Penguin, which follows Penguin following the events of the film. The series is set to be released in 2024. Also in production is an untitled " Arkham" series, which will focus on residents on Arkham State Hospital. Deleted Scene (SD, 1 minute) - There is but one deleted scene included, "Alfred's Lost Love," that runs less than a minute. Batman Forever (1995) - Riddle me this, riddle me that, you'll find adventure on the wings of a bat! Brace for excitement as Val Kilmer (Batman), Tommy Lee Jones (Two-Face), Jim Carrey (The Riddler), Nicole Kidman (Dr. Chase Meridian) and Chris O'Donnell (Robin) star in the third formidable film in Warner Bros.' Batman series. Joel Schumacher directs and Tim Burton co-produces this thrill-ride of a movie that thunders along on Batmobile, Batwing, Batboat, Batsub and bold heroics. Hang on!In 'Batman Forever' (1995), former District Attorney Harvey Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones) is terrorising Gotham City, when a new villain appears on the scene - the Riddler (Jim Carrey). Together they plot to discover Batman's (Val Kilmer) identity, using a device which can probe the human mind. Meanwhile, the caped crusader has been joined by Robin (Chris O'Donnell), whose trapeze-artist family have recently been slain by Two-Face. Featurette: "Legends of the Dark Knight: The History of Batman" (SD, 18 minutes) - Perhaps my favorite featurette here, this is a very informative retrospective on seven decades of Batman. Second only to Superman in terms of sheer history and comic incarnations, I found "Legends" fascinating, if only because I knew so little about the character beyond the movies. A must-watch, I'd say. O'Donnell's Robin brings up an issue strongly associated with the Schumacher Batmans, and that's their purported homoerotic subtext. Subtext probably isn't the right word, what with the constant fetishistic visuals of rubber suits (with nipples, no less), car-commercial cutaways to details of vehicles as well as costumes, and a general design philosophy that isolates these musclebound heroes in hazy dark spaces cut up with laser lighting suitable for a '70s discotheque. When street thugs are needed, Batman Forever paints them in day-glo colors like extras from a KISS music video. Critics have been going after the supposed aberrant sexuality in costumed superheroes ever since Superman comics arrived, and there's no avoiding the usual blather about men choosing to live together to fight crime and secretly preferring each other's company. Batman Forever's focus on motorcycles does sometimes remind us of Kenneth Anger, so there's something to this; but the fact is that it's just cultural baggage associated with the Schumacher films' visual style.

TV Special (SD, 24 minutes) - "Riddle Me This: Why is Batman Forever?" is a 1995 special hosted by Chris O'Donnell. It's about as fluffy and promotional as you can get, and plays like the glorified commercial it is. However, it does cover all of the then-three Batman films as well as the comic origins, so it at least aims for substance. But I'm just not a big fan of O'Donnell, either so this was punishing. BIG. BOLD. LAVISH. OUTSTANDING VISUAL MISCHIEF." — Janet Maslin, THE NEW YORK TIMES (Batman & Robin) DC Films Multiverse Team-Ups and Crossover Event Films Snyder Era Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Definitely, a top-heavy film after the departure of Keaton so I can understand being under lots of pressure to make this as consistent as possible from the previous two films. I still got sour of the fact that Batman smiled after his little nightstand with Ms. Meridian. That wasn't good.

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Anti-piracy warning - 00:12, Warner Bros Home Video clip - 00:12, Main Menu - 00:30, [SPECIAL FEATURES]: SHADOWS OF THE BAT: The Cinematic Saga of the DARK KNIGHT Pt.6 Batman Unbound - 27:00, BATMAN: The Heroes (Batman, Robin, Batgirl) - 09:18, BATMAN: The Villains (Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy, Bane) - 08:03, BEYOND BATMAN (BIGGER BOLDER BRIGHTER: The Production Design of Batman & Robin, MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE: The Vehicles of Batman & Robin, DRESSED TO THRILL: The Costumes of Batman & Robin, FROZEN FREAKS AND FEMME FATALES: The Makeup of Batman & Robin, FREEZE FRAME: The Visual Effects of Batman & Robin) - 50:34, DELETED SCENE: Alfred's Lost Love - 00:45, Music Videos (THE END IS THE BEGINNING IS THE END by Smashing Pumpkins, LOOK INTO MY EYES by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, GOTHAM CITY by R. Kelly, FOOLISH GAMES by Jewel) - 19:13. Batman Forever and Batman & Robin offer up the complimentary production doc galleries, and the fifth and sixth parts of "Shadows of the Bat," each running around 30 minutes. O'Donnell hosts a piece of promo fluff ("Riddle Me This: Why is Batman Forever?") on the third film, which also features seven deleted scenes that collectively lend some credence to the theory of a movie workshopped to death and dictated much more by studio notes and marketing directives than any sort of... oh, I don't know... script. No identification with actual persons, places, buildings and products is intended or should be inferred. Speaking of Poison Ivy, played by the wonderful Uma Thurman, I don't think I could've recommended a better actress. Her looks are versatile enough to have her pass off as a nerdy girl to an irresistible vixen whom men want to have a shot at (something some girls fantasize about growing up). The muscle man Arnold Schwarzenegger as Victor Fries/Mr. Freeze was also done very well. Like Jim Carrey, I can't see Schwarzenegger protraying as anyone else but The Terminator, but unlike Carrey, he pulled off that popular cinematic persona and reeled me in with his villainous character. The five sections are: "Out of the Shadows: The Production Design of Batman Forever" (11 minutes), "The Many Faces of Gotham City" (9 minutes), "Knight Moves: The Stunts of Batman Forever" (7 minutes), "Imaging Forever: The Visual Effects of Batman Forever" (9 minutes) and "Scoring Forever: The Music of Batman Forever" (8 minutes).

The extras are by and large both entertaining and substantial; when John Dykstra talks about the effects for films number 3 and 4 he's very clear about the changing attitude brought about by digital tools. Most of the stars are interviewed from numerous angles, with Schumacher defending his pair of features even as Chris O'Donnell skates the issue by saying that they were spaced a bit too close together. Tommy Lee Jones is notorious for being uncooperative when asked to analyze the movies he's in; the featurette editor succeeds in turning a Jones non-remark into a button line, even though the actor basically says that "the duality of his character is obvious, and there's nothing more to say!" Four music videos, including "The End is the Beginning is the End" by Smashing Pumpkins, "Foolish Games" by Jewel, "Gotham City" by R. Kelly, and "Look Into My Eyes" by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight part 4, entitled "The Dark Side of the Dark Knight"

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Storyboard Sequence (SD) - Also included is a storyboard sequence, though it comes as a single video clip. Which means if you want to investigate any specific storyboard more closely, your relegated to using your remote's "Pause" button only. A more Blu-ray-friendly, interactive upgrade would have been nice. Audio Commentary - Strangely, this is the commentary I was most looking forward to, as I really wanted to hear Schumacher's take on this much-maligned third sequel. Turns out he nearly won me over -- he is well aware of the distaste for his film, but passionate and funny about the choices he made. I give him props for admitting the weaknesses, including too many characters and too much of a concession to his garish, toy-line sensibilities. He also calls the Alfred subplot what he's "most proud of" in the film. This may be the best commentary I've ever heard for a film this bad. Anti-piracy warning - 00:12, Warner Bros Home Video clip - 00:12, Main Menu - 01:25, Feature film - 2:06:20, [SPECIAL FEATURES]: Theatrical trailer - 02:33 If Burton wrapped darkness around the Dark Knight, Schumacher bathes him in day-glo colors. It's like being in a nightclub version of Gotham City. Even the costumes have been jazzed up (some would say gayed up), including the beginnings of Schumacher's much-derided "Batman with nipples." Schumacher also continues this approach with the characters and casting. Gone are the demented Joker, Penguin, and Catwoman, replaced by Jim Carrey's overtly zany Riddler, and Tommy Lee Jones' scenery-chewing Two-Face. (And, oh yeah, Nicole Kidman is in here somewhere as a love interest, but it's hard to remember she's even in the movie.) Nothing seems weighty or of any real emotional consequence. Between all the razzle-dazzle, voluminous characters, and arch comedy, one hardly cares about Batman's predicament at all. SPECIAL FEATURES]: RIDDLE ME THIS: WHY IS BATMAN FOREVER?, SHADOWS OF THE BAT: The Cinematic Saga of the DARK KNIGHT Pt.5 Reinventing a Hero, BATMAN: The Heroes, BATMAN: The Villains, BEYOND BATMAN, DELETED SCENES, Kiss From A Rose Video by Seal.

A sequel to Suicide Squad was planned following the success of the original film, though it would serve as a soft-reboot for the franchise. Robbie, Davis and Kinnaman return as Quinn, Waller and Flag, respectively. The film also features several other characters, including David Dastmalchian as the Polka-Dot Man and Ratcatcher 2.

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Still, while there's an undeniable qualitative drop-off in terms of the actual narrative product as this series progresses, Warner Bros.' admirable double-disc releases of each film sent them off into the digital world on more or less equal footing, which is a great thing. The first DVD incarnations of Burton's films didn't even feature the theatrical trailers, so it's nice to see these titles -- and indeed, the entire franchise -- get such an exhaustively detailed effort, with supplemental material that contextually frames each release and also openly lays forth the varying and developing motivations behind its artistic choices.