


Overall, the point is that when Joel Schumacher took over directing, the franchise went downhill. Chase Meridian and Robin, respectively, didn't really add anything. Nicole Kidman and Chris O'Donnell, as Dr. Personally, I don't know why they had to have Batman (Val Kilmer) going through therapy remove that and he still would have been a cool superhero with neat gadgets. So when did the Batman franchise go bad? Well, "Batman Forever" was getting silly, but it still had Jim Carrey to steal the show as The Riddler ("Batman and Robin" had about as many good qualities as a barrel of toxic waste). Some people talk about "the stick of straw that broke the camel's back", meaning when something reached the tipping point.
