This article comes from Den of Geek UK.

It may have shifted a fair few toys and given us some great Arnie lines to recite, but Joel Schumacher’s Batman & Robin will mainly be remembered as a franchise killer. What Tim Burton began with the luscious, gothic brace of Batman and Batman Returns, Schumacher well and truly wrote off with the colorful crapness of Batman Forever and Batman & Robin.

The Bat-franchise managed to live on after Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones chewed the scenery into tiny little pieces during Batman Forever, but Bat-nipples, “Ice to meet you,” and Alfred making a skin-tight costume for his niece was just too much for the series to survive.

Nowadays, if reviewers savage a film, the cast and crew come out and defend it. They say things like “we made this for the fans, not those heartless meat-sacks known as critics.” But enough time has gone by since Batman & Robin that everyone’s now being brutally honest about it. Some have outright apologized for the film, and others have tried to stand up for its merits…