Directed by:
Tim Burton

Starring:
Jack Nicholson as The Joker/Jack Napier
Michael Keaton as Batman/Bruce Wayne
Kim Basinger as Vicki Vale
Robert Wuhl as Alexander Knox
Pat Hingle as Police Commissioner Gordon
Billy Dee Williams as Harvey Dent, Gotham District Attorney
Michael Gough as Alfred Pennyworth
Jack Palance as Boss Carl Grissom
Jerry Hall as Alicia
Tracey Walter as Bob the Goon

• Batman steps out into the street with batmobile racing towards him at high speed. He holds a microphone in his hand up to his face and says the command "stop". He then lowers his hand. The batmobile comes to screeching halt just inches away from Batman. Batman is standing there with his hand back up to his face. - fred

• When lt. Eckhart goes to axis chemicals to capture jack Napier, he looks as if he hasn't shaved in a week. Once inside the plant, he is clean shaven. In the very next scene, he is scruffy looking again. - fred christensen

• At the end of the movie, before Joker falls an dies, he has blood all over his chin, but when they show him laying down dead laughing after he falls, there is only a streak of blood over by his cheek. - ~*heather*~

• In the museum scene where Joker and the thugs are trashing paintings, one thug dips his hand in red paint and makes hand prints on a portrait of some rich guy. In the next two shots (i.e. Joker posing infront of a tiny statue and knocking it over) you can see the painting, completely untouched. - Stonebone

• When the Joker is cutting up photos at the table, his henchman brings in a new set and hands it to the Joker. A close-up shows the Joker holding only one photo. Then a far shot shows him holding a whole stack. Another close-up shows only one photo in his hands again. And finally, a far shot shows him holding just one photo. (TV) - Sam

• When Batman crashes through the skylight window in the art museum, you can clearly see a safety cable lowering him down, which doesn't really look like some bat gadget lowering him down. - sketch

• (Revealing mistakes) When the Batmobile is apparently driving itself in a scene. They do a close up of the cockpit window, you can see a hand on the top of the steering wheel. (DVD/VHS) - Stukes

• (Plot holes) The biggest mistake in this entire series of films is the different takes on the morality of killing that each movie has. In Batman Forever, much of the sub-plot involving Robin revolves around his desire to kill Two-Face, and Batman trying to convince him not to. However, Batman killed many people in the first two films! Even though the director and actor changed, we are meant to assume that this is the same Batman throughout all four films because of the references to previous films made in each one. In the first film, Batman killed at least one henchman for sure by hurling him down the church tower, probably several more when he bombed the chemical factory. In Batman Returns he kills another henchman by attaching a bomb to his chest (we hear the explosion off-screen). So, if this is the same Batman in Forever, why the sudden change in attitude toward killing? I'm not taking a moral stance on it either way, but the inconsistency is fairly blatant. - BenBigwig

Corrected Goofs

• In the Batman comics, Harvey Dent is a white guy. In the movie Batman, Billy Dee Williams is Harvey Dent. However, later in Batman Forever, Harvey Dent is white, portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones. - angel
  • Correction: For some reason, everyone LOVES pointing this out. Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney look very different from each other but nobody points out that, just because they're all white, three different people have played Batman in the movies. Skin color shouldn't matter when it comes to different movie continuity, just like eye color, height or any other features. This doesn't count as a goof at all. Also, comic book discrepancies are insignificant. You know how lame the characters would look if everything was true to the comics? - OKSAN

• In the original movie trailer, Joker is quoted to have said, "Where does he get those wonderful toys?" In the movie, he says "Get those wonderful toys!" - pat
  • Correction: Uh... no, I'm pretty sure he said the entire line in the film too. - Andrew
  • Sound-Clip: "Where does he get those wonderful toys?" The "where does he" isn't very clear, but he definitely says it. I'm quite sure this sound clip is from the movie, not the trailer.

   

Explained Goofs

• In the end when Joker takes the chick upstairs in the bell tower of the Gotham cathedral... where do all of the Joker's henchmen come from. Joker obviously didn't plan on going up there and seeing how he dropped the bell, no one could have come up afterwards. - Treehugger36
  • Explanation: In the novelization of the film, it explains that the two henchmen were already up in the cathedral tower (before the Joker and Batman arrive) in in order to watch the parade antics from a safe position. - BatJam

• When Robin falls into Poison Ivy's pond, he goes under water, comes up, then goes under again, then comes up again. When he goes under the second time, it is just the first scene being rewinded, & played twice in a row for length. - angel

• Near the end, an icicle jiggles on a cop car. - fangboy

• When Batman and Robin are first going after Freeze when Robin busts through the wall in his bike it just so happens to make a perfect bat signal in the wall. (Not really a goof I just found it really stupid). - Matt

• Near the beginning of Batman and Robin where Batman and Robin are in Mr. Freeze's shuttle he launched over top of Gotham from out of the museum Batman pops the bat bomb on the wall. After that Robin says "now what call a taxi"? when Batman says watch the first step look down towards the his costume where the utility belt is. Top part of his suit where the emblem is is not connected to the bottom with the belt. In other words the top part is just hanging there not tucked into anything. It's hard to explain but when you see it man man man... (VHS) - emolay

• This is a kind of goof so common in movies and films that nobody notices anymore. When Batman and Robin are watching the video showing the accident with cryogenic liquid that made Mr. Freeze what he is, you can see that this video include zooms, spans, nice close-ups, timely scene changes... while it was supposedly taken by a mere surveillance camera. - St Fan

• At the conclusion of the film, when Bruce, Dick, and Barbara are waiting to see if Mr. Freeze's cure will save Alfred, notice that Dick is wearing his regular Robin outfit instead of the silvery detailed suit he had on during the climax at the Observatory. - BatJam

• When Poison Ivy has Bane rip the Batsignal from its foundation, the signal curiously continues to shine. With all the sparks and small explosions, one would think that the power supply would have been disconnected! - BatJam
  

Corrected Goofs

• When Batgirl is trying to hack Alfred's computer you can see a photography of Peggy. In the first scene Batgirl looks at the picture there is nothing, suddenly in the second scene there is a signature of Peggy! - Marcus
  • Correction: No, the two pictures are different - Batgirl is shown to flashback to when she looked at the signed picture AFTER first seeing the blank one. - OKSAN

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• Alfred calls Robin “Master Chris” instead of “Master Robin.”
  • Look for similar real name goofs in The Doors, Days of Thunder, Mallrats, Operation Petticoat, Pretty Woman, Rocky III, Star Wars and War of the Roses.

• Edward Nigma sends Bruce Wayne 2 riddles before actually deciding to be the Riddler - steelflesh

• When Bruce Wayne aka Batman first goes to Chase's office he tells her he needs to really get out of her dress and quickly asks if she likes the circus if u look at him when he say's circus u can hear and tell he says it with a very noticeably lisp pretty funny check it out. - the chossen one

• At the circus, it appears that Two-Face sees Bruce Wayne advancing and flips his coin to decide what to do. After seeing the resulting bad side of the coin, Two-Face then proceeds to fire his gun at the Greyson family. Bad editing?? - BatJam

• When Two-Face ambushes Batman and the big car chase ensues, Batman goes down a dead end alley and is forced to make the Batmobile do a wheelie in order to fire his line up to the gargoyle head. If you pay attention to the design of the Batmobile, you will notice that it would be impossible for the vehicle to perform a wheelie of any kind. The back end of the Batmobile just happens to be off camera during the wheelie scene! - BatJam

• Watch the first part of the scene at Two-Face's hideout. The camera pans down to Two-Face as he complains about "The Bat's stubborn refusal to expire......" after his failed efforts to kill him. As the camera continues to pull away from Two-Face, look over to the right. You can clearly see Jim Carrey in his Riddler outfit, standing supposedly out of view, waiting on his entrance cue. - BatJam

• In Two-Face's lair, when Two-Face allows The Riddler to explain his plan in detail, The Riddler picks up two of his "box" devices which are laying around in the middle of the room. Clearly, he did not have them upon entering the hideout. - BatJam

• When Dick Greyson discovers the Batcave, it shows the Batmobile on its platform raising up and the canopy is opened. When it shows the surprised Alfred standing there a moment later, look behind him at the Batmobile........the canopy is closed! - BatJam

• (Revealing mistakes) In the Halloween scene when Alfred answers the door to the trick-or-treaters (Two-Face and The Riddler) Alfred peeps to see who it is and then opens the door. When the door is opened Alfred is knocked out to the floor. Watch closely and you will see Alfred slightly move the trey he was holding to the right, just enough out of the way for the door to be opened. How polite of Alfred to move the trey out of the way after being knocked out. (VHS) - kid dragon

• (Revealing mistakes) Alfred the butler gets knocked down toward the end of the movie, and he is holding a tray. when he falls the tray goes down and he slides the tray towards him when he is supposed to be unconscious.
  

• As the Penguin walks through the graveyard, he barely bumps into a gravestone and it gets knocked backwards. - Jim M

• When the ice princess pushes the big red button for lighting the Christmas tree she is facing the crowd, but in the next shot she can be seen standing back up and *turning* to face the crowd. - Steven

• The mirror that Selina smashes in her apartment with the frying pan doesn't have ornaments on it as she approaches it but does when she smashes it. - Steven

• Max's coat disappears when he leads the penguin over to his image consultants. - Steven
  

• Near the end when Batman is sliding down his batcable in the "arctic habitat" building, he has his two arms extended out, yet he is sliding down the cable,-- how the heck is he holding on, it looks like it's attached to his head, which probably isn't true, but it looks weird. - sketch

• After Catwoman breaks into shreck sporting goods, when she is doing cartwheels, she has regular shoes on. But when she stops and turns around, she goes back to her sexy high heels. (I love this movie!) (DVD) - stephen

• Catwoman and The Penguin set Batman up, making it appear that he murdered the Ice Princess, then proceeded to wreck Gotham in the Batmobile. Batman is never proven innocent of these "crimes" by the movies end. - BatJam

  The design of the Bat Ski Boat is flawed. How does it steer (to avoid missiles and also to take a left turn up an ice ramp) when there is no fin or directional device beneath the surface of the water? - BatJam

Corrected Goofs

• Before Batman pulls off his mask, he has black makeup around his eyes. When he pulls the mask off, the makeup disappears. - Jim M
  • Correction: Well Jim M, you see the black make-up is supposed to be a part of the mask. All the Batmans have it. The mask can't go all the way to his eye so they put black make-up where the mask can't cover his skin. So when the mask comes off so does the "other part of the mask". - Cerasi
    • Correction: 'Jim M' is right. 'Cerasi' failed to see the shot where Batman has the eye make up, switches the shot to Catwoman, returns to Batman JUST BEFORE taking his mask off. And sure enough, the eye make up was gone! - bitoy

• As a promotion by Taco Bell. Taco Bell promoted the batdisk. The disk was shot from the canopy of the Batmobile during a skirmish between Batman and Circus hoodlums at start of the movie. Oddly enough that scene was deleted from the movie. - pat
  • Correction: The batmobile does fire batdisks during the skirmish. One from both the left and right side of the Batmobile takes out the two large skull-headed motorcyclists. - BatJam

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