setting the tone for Batman Forever. After he suits up and the Batmobile is introduced during the opening credits, Alfred asks if Batman would like to take a sandwich with him, resulting in Batman ...

Moreover, the film came out during a time when superhero movies were becoming more mainstream but had yet to achieve the darker, grittier tones of today’s blockbusters. Batman Forever was part ...

That film, “Batman Forever,” couldn’t be a more representative ... It was also a box-office smash. It broke an opening-weekend record and eventually brought in more than $336 million ...

Here is Newsday's review from June 15, 1995 of "Batman Forever" by our then-movie critic Jack Mathews: Riddle me this, Bat fan: What was dark is light, what was hip is flip, what was old is new ...