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Here we are once again, locked in the dead heat of a midsummer night's summer. From New York to Minneapolis, things are heating up to the point where black-outs have become a reality once again. But next to intense soul-melting heat, the summer season is probably most known for the endless parade of Hollywood blockbusters. From superheros to special-effect clad spies, you can't walk into a megaplex without seeing someone running away from an exploding building. While some write-off these roller-coaster-inspiring works of art as "popcorn movies" that cater to the lowest common denominator, the truly awful bombs that Hollywood as dropped over the years prove it requires a certain level of intelligence to make big dumb fun. Case in point, summer 1997's 'Batman and Robin.'

Ahh yes, comic book movies. The films many love while an unwashed few bemoan from their abyss of Funyuns and Tahitian Treat that they aren't direct adaptations of their source material. The movies film school kids have used for years, un-ironically championing the bad ones and openly despising the good ones to make their opinions seem interesting in the least-interesting ways. While 'Batman and Robin' isn't the worst comic movie I've ever seen (that dubious honor belongs to 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' otherwise known as 'The Events of 5/1') it was the first time that I, as an 11-year-old, looked at what was happening on the big screen in front of me and felt my intelligence insulted. Without going into why the film is a homoerotic celebration of horrible puns (and not in a good way) today's clip pretty much isolates what's wrong with it. As someone who has also read the film/abomination's shooting-script, I can say without joking that several further pages of puns didn't make the final cut. The silver lining in all this is the 'Batman and Robin' drinking game where you take a sip every time somebody makes a pun. You will be wasted, Gotham City wasted.