Parallels with "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier"?
BATMAN & ROBIN had the same problem that THE FINAL FRONTIER had, which is a specific director having too much say, too much control, over a franchise movie. THE VOYAGE HOME also qualifies, despite its having been a financial success. Creatively, TVH is absolute *beep* There's no getting around it - it's a bad movie. Almost invariably, this happens when a director is allowed to make 'his' movie, after having done a good job working hand-in-hand with the studio. BATMAN RETURNS did such phenomenal things with the Catwoman character, I truly am in awe of this movie, for that very reason. But everything else kind of sucks, but again, that's a situation of Tim Burton having done a good job with the first BATMAN, that now, he's given the keys.share