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...Lots of characters too. Robin (Chris O'Donnell) joins the series, which undercuts Batman's heroic loneliness. Nicole Kidman, as the requisite love interest, is little more than a party decoration. And two villains are too many. Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face and Jim Carrey as the Riddler have dueling star turns, with Carrey winning, of course; he can torture the most innocent banalities, like a simple "Well, yes," into delirious comedy. At the end he's still there, potentially available for a fourth Batman...
...director, new set design and a new actor -- Val Kilmer -- portraying the Caped Crusader. ButTIME critic Richard Corlisssays director Joel Schumacher forgot to give the movie life -- "the energizing spirit of wit and passion that makes scenes work and characters breathe." Despite dueling star turns from villains Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones, "Batman Forever" is little more than a series of set pieces with no forward momentum...
Biggest Hit: Batman Forever. It's got Jim Carrey as the Riddler (enough said). Plus sex, laughs, swank, acres of heavy leather-and a great logo...
...romantic comedy, made in England, with no big stars, would turn out to be, dollar-in, dollar-out, the most profitable picture of the year? For that matter, did you think, a year ago, even if you happened to kind of shamefacedly like Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, that Jim Carrey would turn out to be the hottest star of the year...
Back when JIM CARREY was the man of a thousand faces but only a few hundred dollars, he wrote out a $10 million check to himself for "acting services rendered." Carrey tells Barbara Walters in her pre-Oscar interviewfest next week that two days before his father's death last September he signed to do The Mask II-for $10 million. "I put the [old] check with him in the casket," he says, tearing up for Walters. "I'd done the thing that he'd hoped his whole life...