Batman Forever was the weediest of the 1990s Batman movies – and ergo the worst entry in the Caped Crusader’s celluloid chronology. It wasn’t as dark and moody as the two Tim Burton films or Christopher Nolan’s greyscale trilogy of gloom, and it wasn’t a camp, so-bad-it’s-funny rubber fetish fest like Batman & Robin, which meant it was just … tedious.
So what better way of making it more appealing to modern audiences than inviting the man to whom Michael Caine owes more than most to sprinkle some of his magic Inception dust over it?
Well, of course, that ain’t going to happen in reality, but we can dream – and some YouTube types did better than that….