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The film was neither a critical nor a box-office success. In his review of the film, critic Leonard Maltin found that "the 'story' often makes no sense" and that the "action and effects are loud, gargantuan, and ultimately numbing." Published financial figures indicate that the movie was made on a budget of US$110 million, and had collected a gross US$130 million worldwide as of January 1998. Studios usually expect summer movies – particularly those in a highly successful series – to earn more profit than that, and Warner Bros.Warner Bros. the abbreviated name of Warner Bros. Entertainment is one of the world's largest producers of film and television entertainment. It is presently a subsidiary of the Time Warner conglomerate and headquartered in Burbank, California. Subsidiari suspended the series after four films. The film was derisively dubbed Batman on Ice by some critics.

The impact of this film was multifold. All the principal performers involved, especially George Clooney, lost credibility for some time as serious actors. Schumacher found his already debatable artistic reputation ruined, and Warner Bros. was the focus of much derision for producing such a poorly received blockbuster film. A major credited source of this criticism was the websiteA website or Web site (often shortened to a site is a collection of webpages, that is, documents accessible via the World Wide Web on the Internet. The pages of a website will be accessed from a common root URL, the homepage, and usually reside on the sam, Ain't It Cool NewsAin't It Cool News is a website run by Harry Knowles dedicated to rumours on and reviews of upcoming and currently playing films. External links http://www. com/ Movie websites., giving new credibility to the InternetThis article is about the Internet the extensive, worldwide computer network available to the public. An internet is a more general term for a set of interconnected computer networks that are connected by internetworking''. WWW information network structu as a rising force in movie marketingIn order to make a profit on movies they release, movie studios usually engage in a sometimes expensive marketing campaign to ensure that people will actually attend the movie. Several different techniques serve this end. Trailers assemblies of excerpts f.

Fans of the successful animated television series, complained that they suspected that the reason that the direct-to-videoA film that is released direct-to-video (also straight-to-video is one which has been released to the public on home video formats first rather than first being released in movie theaters. This can occur for several reasons. Often a production studio will film, Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero which was produced by the TV series producers was delayed because of the Schumacher film. This, they contend, was because the Warner Brothers management knew it was superior to the live action and decided to delay it to prevent unfavourable comparisons to a film they had more financial stake in. This allegation, plus the fact that the scenes that Batman fans generally thought were the best in the film were largely taken from the animated series, convinced many Batman fans that the Animated Series producers should have been responsible for the live action film series.

Many fans were also upset at the inclusion and depiction of Bane in this movie (played by the late wrestler Jeep Swenson). Their complaint was twofold. He was depicted as a brainless bodyguard for the main villains. Also despite the trend of partnering up Batman villains begun in Forever, many fans agree that given Bane's importance in the books, he should appear as the only main villain in a Batman movie.

However, it has since been argued that the film's dismal failure was, in the long run, good for the future of comic book films, as the comedic angle taken to the source material by the makers of the film was so widely vilified that other filmmakers would be encouraged to treat the source material with more seriousness in their own films. This revised attitude has lead to successful and acclaimed film adaptations like Blade, X-Men, Spider-Man, Ghost World and Road to Perdition.

Batman and Robin marked the end of the Tim Burton series of movies, although Burton himself was not involved in this production. A prequel to the series, Batman Begins, is scheduled for release in the summer of 2005.