This
was the third follow-up to Tim Burton's Batman (1989), the original
revisionist look at the Gotham City legend, as well as the second in
the Batman series directed by Joel Schumacher and the first featuring
George Clooney as the Caped Crusader; it features not one but two
super-villains, and a new heroine to fight crime alongside Bruce Wayne
(aka Batman) and Dick Grayson (aka Robin) (Chris O'Donnell). The
experiments of Dr. Victor Fries (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to preserve his
late wife cryogenically have gone horribly wrong, turning him into the
evil genius Mr. Freeze, who must keep his body at sub-zero temperature
in order to say alive - and he wants to put Gotham City on ice.
Shy horticulturist Pamela Isley (Uma Thurman) goes a bit wild with a
Venus Fly Trap-like creation she's been working on and mutates into
Poison Ivy, who wants to kill all the people on Earth so plants can
take over. Can Batman and Robin stop these fiends before their plans go
too far? Meanwhile, Bruce and Dick's faithful butler Alfred (Michael
Gough) isn't feeling well, so his niece Barbara (Alicia Silverstone)
comes to pay a visit. When Barbara finds out what her uncle's employers
do in their spare time, she decides she wants in on the action, and she
joins the crime fighting twosome as Batgirl. Batman & Robin
also
features Jesse Ventura in a small role as a prison guard; it would be
his last film role before becoming Governor of Minnesota in 1998
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