Release date: February 13, 2018
Film: Batman Forever
Tagline: The Last Angry Geek joins the review of one of the strangest Batman movies made. Some have a soft spot for it, but is there really anything of worth?
We remembered these tropes so you don't have to:
- Affably Evil: The Mocker (Jim) is presented as a supervillain who taints blockbuster movies with his questionable creative decisions, yet in person is just the nicest guy you've ever met.
- Alas, Poor Villain: Red Lobster abruptly kills the Mocker just when the Critic and the Geek finally make peace with him.
- Blackface: Inverted. Malcolm dresses as a Two-Face expy with his entire face painted white.
- Chekhov's Gunman: The Critic mentions a hypothetical lowlife getting his hands on a Spider-Man costume and calling himself "Red Lobster". Guess who kills the Mocker?
- Crossover: With Brian "The Last Angry Geek" Heinz.
- Hostility on the Set: The Critic and the Geek mock Tommy Lee Jones for saying "I do not sanction your buffoonery" to Jim Carrey when he acts just as over-the-top as Carrey does.
- Large Ham: Much attention is paid to how orgasmic the extras' expressions are.
- Ms. Fanservice: As a parody of Dr. Chase Meridian, Tamara wears a low-cut cocktail dress and flirts aggressively.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: The Mocker dresses just like the Riddler, but his hair, voice and mannerisms are clearly based off Batman Forever's director Joel Schumacher.
- Now, Buy the Merchandise: The Critic and the Geek not-so-subtly urge the viewer to buy the Rifftrax version of Batman Forever, which like this episode, is also a collaboration between the Walker Brothers and Heinz.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: The critics finding the most inopportune times to repeat, "I do not sanction your buffoonery" peaks with Two-Face dancing across the main floor of Wayne Manor to, "I! Can't! Sanction! This! Buffoon-er-y!"
- Recycled Script: While the review is obviously more analytical, some of the jokes are directly recycled from their Rifftrax which is promoted in the video itself.
- Running Gag: The name of Robin's alter ego, Dick Grayson, inspires dick jokes aplenty.Doug!Batman: (when Robin's vehicle is hit by Riddler's defenses) Oh no! My Dick!
- So Okay, It's Average: The Critic and the Geek concede that this film is not a flat-out trainwreck like Batman & Robin, but neither is it a very good film on its own, mainly because of its inconsistent tone and uncertainty of who it intended its audience to be.
- Stalker with a Crush: In contrast to Alfred referring to Dr. Meridian as "lovely and wise", a quick montage of clips of her pursuit of Bruce leave the Geek thinking she's "a creepier stalker than Nygma".
- Vindicated by History:
- The matter of criticizing Jim Carrey's scenery-chewing performance as the Riddler, portrayed in this movie as an obsessive nerd who latched on to the celebrity Bruce Wayne, then Two-Face, seems downright realistic (they claim, too subtle) since the excesses of "Internet culture and fanboys blew up". Clips are shown to support this.
- When the Riddler explains how his "Box" is giving him the secrets of everyone in Gotham City, the reviewers vocally struggle not to say that this was ahead of its time.
"Gotham must KNOW!" (Orgasms)
