By popular demand, the Mercury‘s once again teaming up with the Hollywood Theatre to present a very special installment of Hecklevison. So charge up your phones, ready your clever and biting text messages, and prepare to see your jokes and comments pop up onscreen as we all enjoy…

Batman & Robin: Nipples. Codpieces. Ass. More nipples.

Batman & Robin: One of the worst motion pictures ever made.

Batman & Robin: When R. Kelly somehow made everyone miss Seal.

Batman & Robin: Alicia Silverstone never acted again. (THIS MIGHT AS WELL BE TRUE.)

Batman & Robin: In which Bane was portrayed not by acclaimed actor Tom Hardy but by Jeep Swenson.

Batman & Robin: are gay.

Batman & Robin: In which Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $25 million to do this:

“If there’s anybody watching this, that… let’s say, loved Batman Forever, and went into Batman & Robin with great anticipation, if I’ve disappointed them in any way, then I really want to apologize. Because it wasn’t my intention. My intention was just to entertain them.”
—Joel Schumacher

“With hindsight, it’s easy to look back at this and go, ‘Whoa. That was really shit, and I was really bad in it.’”
—George Clooney

Hecklevision: Batman & Robin. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy. Friday, August 24 at 7:30 pm. $8.

With honor and distinction, Erik Henriksen served as the executive editor of the Portland Mercury from 2004 to 2020. He can now be found at henriksenactual.com.

7 replies on “Announcing HECKLEVISION: <i>BATMAN & ROBIN</i>”

  5. I will be there.

    Batman and Robin and Space Jam are the first two movies I remember seeing in theaters as a kid. Needless to say my childhood was great

  6. Graham, Fruit Cup: you guys need to… chill.

    I’ll be there! I was just looking at my old texts from Point Break. Good times.

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