Directing the movie as if it's a music video with quick edits, tilted angles, and garish sets, Joel Schumacher presents the gaily dressed heroes and villains such that they're always ready to break into a song and dance routine.and, sadly, not even the Batusi. In Batman Forever, this same tone just plays out like a cartoon aimed at grade schoolers. Granted, the Caped Crusader's '60s TV adventures hold a special place in pop culture but this trippy production was a White Buffalo in the Zeitgeist.

And then Batman Forever follows Batman starring Adam West and Burt Ward. Americans keep saying some historic gaffes will never happen again. Regressing superhero flicks back to the days of candy-colored camp, the slapsticky and recast Batman Forever sports a title that's quite apt seeing as it begins a once-edgy franchise's slow demise. As the caped crusader also deals with tortured memories of his parents' murder, he has a new romance, with psychologist Chase Meridian (Nicole Kidman). It was impossible to do anything but pay attention whenever he was speaking – and that is a sign of just how enticing a character he was.Batman (Val Kilmer) faces off against two foes: the schizophrenic, horribly scarred former District Attorney Harvey Dent, aka Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones), and the Riddler (Jim Carrey), a disgruntled ex-Wayne Enterprises inventor seeking revenge against his former employer by unleashing his brain-sucking weapon on Gotham City's residents. Like most of The Batman‘s original interpretations, its Riddler was incredibly underrated and, quite frankly, both he and Englund should be mentioned more often. He seductively spoke in riddles while drawing out every word as long as possible, making the character all the more illusive and yet unsettling. With a slow echo-like tone, Englund was capable of making this Riddler sound unnervingly smart with a single sentence.

Of course, being an animated show for kids, there were limits to what the writers could actually do, but one thing the show was able to do was ensure that he sounded chilling – and that’s where Englund came in. With a thin frame and long black hair, this Riddler was portrayed as a more sinister version than his predecessors, as he certainly looked like he could have been involved in some of the more chilling Batman projects. It’s rather fitting that horror legend Robert Englund provided the voice for The Batman‘s unique reinvention of The Riddler, and he delivered a performance that absolutely lived up to his reputation.

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