18. Batman & Robin

I told you Batman’s nipple suit wouldn’t sway me! Though, I have to recognize that George Clooney wears it with considerable poise in this 1997 film, which otherwise suffers from a serious lack of substance. In his ultimately futile effort to find a cure for his cryogenically frozen wife’s incurable illness, Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger) plans to freeze all of Gotham (“and then…the world!”). But Mr. Freeze quickly learns that you can’t fight ice with ice — Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman) has her own agenda, and she defrosts Freeze’s wife and leaves her to die.

One-liners and one-dimensional character building ensue as Batman, Robin (Christopher O’Donnell) and Alicia Silverstone as Batgirl try to save the world with their latex out. But, though Batman & Robin is widely thought of as the worst Batman movie in existence, it’s not completely without merit. It offers a very ‘90s take on the ‘60s Batman TV show’s holy, campy excess. For example: when I first watched Batman & Robin as a middle schooler, I kept replaying the scene where Uma Thurman performs a sultry striptease out of a gorilla costume, and I wondered if I was bisexual or if I just liked the part where she’s a gorilla.