I love the Tim Burton Batman movies, but I've always enjoyed Batman Forever nearly just as much.
Look, Batman and Robin is garbage, I'm not a contrarian, but Batman Forever straddles that edge of campy and cheesy without going over the edge into garbage territory like B&R did.
Batman Forever is one of those movies that was part of my childhood along with Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc.
Yes it's pretty corny, yes Jim Carrey is over the top, but it's a fun movie and it's usually talked about like it's almost as bad as Batman and Robin, but I totally disagree.
I mean Batman Returns itself has got a really strange tone. I flip flop on which I like better, but ultimately I'd say Batman Returns and Batman Forever are about equally as good for different reasons.
I know this forum is more about political stuff in the pop culture, but just wanted to give this pop-culture opinion.
If there's any Batman Forever haters, let's fight about it.
I don't think the problem with batman forever has anything to do with the film in and of itself, but rather what it was connected to. If it was set in its own universe it would have been fine, but because it's attached to batman '89 and batman returns, the tonal shift from returns to forever is jarring. (see also: teen titans vs teen titans go).
the first two batman movies in the tetralogy(today i learned, lol) are these dark, serious films with a bit of dark humor interlaced in here and there, and then with little to know transition, you jump to batman forever, which have a lot more of the west-era camp and silliness to them.
This, by the way, is why they're hated. Not so much because they're bad movies, but because they were presented as being int he same universe as batman and batman returns.