History Film / BatmanAndRobin

** Music/{{Coolio}} as Banker, who takes bets in illegal motorcycle races. He later revealed in 2017 that, had a fifth movie been made, that Banker would turned out to be an EarlyBirdCameo of the Scarecrow.

** Music/{{Coolio}} as Banker, who takes bets in illegal motorcycle races.

* [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/coolio-was-courted-play-scarecrow-scrapped-batman-robin-sequel-973978/ In 2017]], Music/{{Coolio}} revealed that Banker, the character he played who was the MC and bookie of the underground racing ring Barbara partakes in was supposed to have been an EarlyBirdCameo for the Scarecrow. Since the fifth movie never got made, this version of Jonathan Crane was never a psychologist, teacher, or supervillain.

* AbortedArc: Julie Madison, Bruce's steady girlfriend in the film, was originally scripted to have a more prominent role where Poison Ivy actually killed her and motivated Bruce for revenge. This was cut by the time of filming, but the movie clearly still has elements of this in the screenplay and Julie abruptly vanishes from the film in the third act without even so much as a reference as to where she is.

** The version of Dr Woodrue shown here is nothing more than a MadScientist whose penchant is for botany. His comic counterpart “The Floronic Man” is a genuine supervillain with plant-based powers similar to Poison Ivy.

'''Police Officer:''' [[KilledMidSentence NO-!]] ''[freezes solid]''

* AnIceGun: Mr. Freeze's WeaponOfChoice, as in all of his incarnations.

* CrusadingWidower: Mr. Freeze partakes in villainy to provide enough material to study his wife's sickness.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: At one point late in the movie the heroes have to scale a wall that looks hundreds of feet tall. They do so using their grappling hooks. Aside from the question [[HyperspaceArsenal of where the hell all the hundreds of feet of cable are when they aren't using the grappling hooks]], There's no way you could shoot straight up and have the hook actually go that high without gravity getting in the way.

* NostalgicMusicbox: In the form of a snow globe.

* SoLastSeason: Robin is presented as this in-universe. Compared to his appearances in ''Forever'', he's pretty close-to useless in most of the film's encounters, and mostly just acts as a [[TheLoad whiny, incompetent dead weight]]. The one meaningful contribution he has to defeating the villains -- namely, finding out from Ivy what Mr Freeze's plan is -- is made redundant by both Batman and Batgirl being there anyway, and any time he tries to do something useful in the climax (attempting to hack the telescope's systems and save Batgirl from falling off the telescope platform), he immediately gets outdone by Batgirl.

* IllGirl: Nora Fries, and eventually, Alfred, suffer from [=MacGregor=]'s Syndrome.

** Freeze's mystery cure for MacGregor Syndrome.

* KissDiss: When Poison Ivy seduces Gordon into giving her the keys to the Bat-Signal, she initially leans in to deliver a KissOfDeath to him. But she stops short and decides that he's "far too old" for her and walks off, leaving him heartbroken.

* {{Camp}}: Following in the footsteps of the previous film ''Batman Forever'', but turned UpToEleven. It backfired spectacularly.

1997's ''Batman & Robin'' was the fourth and final film in the ''Film/BatmanFilmSeries''. Like its predecessor, ''Film/BatmanForever'', it was headed by Creator/JoelSchumacher and retains that film's campier style, dual villains, and cartoonish aesthetic... [[UpToEleven and then some.]]

As far as superhero films go, and maybe film in general, the movie has become [[ExactWords something of]] [[DamnedByFaintPraise a legend]]...and by "legend", we mean a shining benchmark of how ''not'' to adapt a comic book property, the result of Schumacher's zany direction style (ramped up from the already out-there ''Forever'') mixing with [[ExecutiveMeddling executive pushes towards a more family-friendly movie]].

The ''Batman'' franchise [[FranchiseKiller was ultimately left in limbo]] as a result, with several prospective follow-up films doomed to DevelopmentHell at best or cancelled at worst, including a Robin spin-off and a would-be DarkerAndEdgier sequel titled ''Batman Unchained''. Schumacher received the lion's share of public criticism for the film's outcome, [[MisBlamed even for decisions the executives made]], and even ended up ''issuing a public apology'' to disappointed fans. However, as a silver lining, the film has become one of the most well-known to ever earn the "SoBadItsGood" label.

* WhooshingCredits: Complete with whooshing interlocking logos, too.

* HollywoodNerd: Pamela Isley has the glasses but is attractive even before she becomes Poison Ivy.
* HollywoodScience: Loads of it.

** During her final seduction of Robin at her lair, after she makes her final plea to Robin, begging to give her just one kiss "[[MotivationalKiss for luck]]", and Robin silently agrees, Ivy gently places a hand on his cheek before they both slowly lean in and share a passionate kiss.

* TooDumbToLive: Dr. Woodrue justs let Poison Ivy take his face and kiss him without resisting, complaining, or noting something might be wrong, and making contact with her would be a bad idea.

* SkunkStripe: Dr. Woodrue has one of these.

*** The Batcave itself is also a visual continuiy nod. While it's the same set from ''Forever'' with the same layout, it's been redesigned and expadned both because Bruce is no longer working alone and needing to be rebuilt after the Riddler's rampage.