JOel Schumacher's Batman & Robin was a disaster, to put it mildly. Cartoon elements, terrible dialogue, and poor plot choices aside, fans will never forget the movie's costumes, specifically the bats.
"There's no way I can explain it to you, other than that I had no idea putting nipples on the bat costume was going to make international news," Schumacher described in a Batman special. "The bodies for the suits, the inspiration for them are Greek statues that have perfect bodies. And so we're molding this perfect body out of rubber, and they're anatomically erotic. So, it never occurred to me not to put nipples on the suits. of men because I did not know that the male nipple was a controversial part of the body. "
That all sounds reasonable enough, and if Batman and Robin had been successful on many other levels, audiences might have seen beyond the distractions of the locker room. Unfortunately, the film sent the entire franchise into limbo for a solid decade, leaving fans with years to poke fun at the worst misstep in the franchise's long cinematic history.
