{"id":2066419,"date":"2025-10-03T10:57:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2066419"},"modified":"2025-10-03T10:57:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:57:05","slug":"how-jim-carrey-really-feels-about-the-batmans-new-take-on-the-riddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-jim-carrey-really-feels-about-the-batmans-new-take-on-the-riddler\/","title":{"rendered":"How Jim Carrey Really Feels About The Batman’s New Take On The Riddler"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Although Paul Dano was praised for his dark, visceral take on the Riddler<\/a>\u00a0in 2022’s “The Batman,” there are still fans who long for the simpler days when the super-villain had strong silly goose vibes. It seems their ranks may include Jim Carrey, who played a much sillier version of the Riddler<\/a> in the 1995 film “Batman Forever.”<\/p>\n

“I’ve not seen [Dano’s version of the Riddler]. It’s a very dark version. I<\/strong> have mixed emotions about it,” as Carrey told UNILAD<\/a> in 2022. “To each his own and all that. I love [Paul Dano] as an actor, he’s a tremendous actor.” Though he hesitated to say anything definitive about the movie, Carrey was clearly concerned with how realistic and violent this new version of the Riddler was, adding:<\/p>\n

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“I do worry. There’s a spot of worry in me over gaffer-taping people’s faces and encouraging people to do the same. […] Some sickos out there that might adopt that method. […] I do have a conscience about the things I choose. […] I know there’s a place for it, and I don’t want to criticize it, but it’s not my kind of thing. […] it’s very well done, those movies are very well done.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Carrey’s concerns appeared to center on one of the more interesting\u00a0(and perhaps most troubling) aspects of Dano’s Riddler: He seems similar to many real-life men who’ve been radicalized into political violence through online extremist rabbit-holes. Indeed, he’s terrifying because he seems like a guy who could exist in our world, as well as someone those guys would look up to. It recalls the situation with Heath Ledger’s Joker in 2008’s “The Dark Knight,” a fantastic villain who has also become an idol to edgy anti-social nihilists worldwide.<\/p>\n

Both Ledger’s Joker and Dano’s Riddler also provide a stark contrast to Carrey’s Riddler, a straightforward weirdo who’s far more funny than frightening.<\/p>\n

Read more: 10 Marvel Characters Who Could Beat Batman In A Fight<\/a><\/p>\n

Should the Batman movies be campy or gritty? A decades-long debate.<\/h2>\n
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