Batman Foreverwas supposed to be good times for all, like a rainbow after the gloomy storm that was the Tim Burton Batman movies. Thanks to a temper tantrum from McDonald’s,the third Batman film was directed by Joel Schumacher instead of Burton, trading Burton’s psychological trauma for Schumacher’s kitschy splendor. Intended to lighten the emotional load and make Warner Bros.’s mega-franchise more family-friendly, the production ironically led to the kind of nasty infighting that you would never want to happen in your own family. You would think that this is a situation Batman could have helped clean up, except even Batman was too busy beefing to be much help.
