We are also introduced to The Riddler, AKA Edward Nygma, a supergenius who creates a brainwave-machine, and after his invention is rejected by Bruce Wayne, Nygma becomes the Riddler and joins forces with Two-Face, and they team-up to destroy Batman, whilst using the Riddlers machine to suck the brainwaves from the people of Gotham. So Dent takes the name Harvey Two-Face and swears vengeance on Batman, who he thinks responsible for what happened to his face. You might be surprised how well it holds up, even if it isn’t the Schumacher Cut.Batman Forever is the first Motion Picture Batman that I saw as a kid, and it's what made me a die-hard Batman fan, and it made me want to watch the other ones! Batman battles a new villain, Two-Face AKA Harvey Dent, former District Attorney of Gotham, who has one half of his face scarred and also doing severe damage to the brain.
If you’re even slightly doubting of this viewpoint, you owe it to yourself to watch this 1995 classic yet again.
With some prescient insight on where technology, society and superheroes were going, the curve was left behind when Batman Forever was through and we were all the better for it. That is totally unfair, as Joel Schumacher’s first time out as a Batman director was a pretty interesting glimpse into the future of the still developing comic film universe. Some like to talk about Batman Forever in similar tones as they would address the infinitely campier, and to a certain extent inferior, Batman and Robin. For reference, Batman Forever was released a year before the film that would mark a huge turning point in his career, 1996’s The Cable Guy. Even when he’s been defeated and starts to see the gigantic bat that terrorized Bruce Wayne in his younger nightmares, the fright shown by Jim Carrey is something that was heavier than any of his blockbuster gigs at the time. Sure, Jim Carrey got to work out those comedian muscles in Batman Forever, with punchlines and physical comedy peppered into his routine as the legendary DC Comics baddie.īut on top of all of this, we got to see Jim Carrey get pretty dark and demented when Edward’s more power hungry motives started to wear on his jokey veneer. Nowhere was that more clear with Carrey’s portrayal of Edward Nygma/The Riddler, under Schumacher’s steady directorial hand. In remembering his late collaborator, actor Jim Carrey noted that Joel Schumacher saw untapped potential within his talents before most others had even gotten the memo. We end this parade of forward thinking decisions that made Batman Forever a true film ahead of its time with a simple act of trust.
Joel Schumacher Saw The Potential In Jim Carrey’s Dark Side
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