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badblokebob

Tim Burton's first Batman is great, but this is a much better film in so many ways! The direction, writing, acting, action, effects are all slicker. They spent over twice as much and it really shows.

Watching them both today, Batman feels Old now, whereas Returns… it's from '92, of course it doesn't feel New, but it feels more like newer films. In a good way.
11 years 8 months ago
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gio87

This is my favorite Batman movie. Michelle Pfeiffer's performance was excellent.
12 years ago
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ClassicLady

Great visually. It has the Tim Burton feel.
10 years 2 months ago
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Dieguito

The catwoman parts are nice
12 years 9 months ago
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tigh66

Better then the 1989 Batman, with Phieffer, DeVito, and Walken just making this one enjoyable. It was a better fit for Tim Burton's visual style as well.
13 years 9 months ago
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rachie615

Great movie! Can even be watched as allegory in these trying times. Pretend Walken's character is the GOP and Penguin is Trump.
5 years 2 months ago
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thekure23

I just saw both Burtons Batman movies. Let me just say that the first one, from '89, definitely isn't worth anyone's time, unless they're true TB fans.

This one, however, is worth everyone's. What a flick! Michelle Pheiffer absolutely steals the show as the split-down-the-middle catwoman, Keaton actually portrays Batman (a quality the first movie lacked), DeVito's portrayal of the villain deserves recognition (unlike Nicholson's Joker), and to top it all off - it has Christopher Walken (always a pleasure).

Great movie. Watch it!
PS: If I haven't already made it perfectly clear; you do not need to watch Batman (1989) to follow the plot. Not at all.
7 years 5 months ago
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Cadeicus

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Frank Goes Mad
8 years 6 months ago
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akuma587

Definitely better than the original Batman film. Perfect by an means, no, but I enjoyed it. The Catwoman portrayal was not half bad, although I imagine the next Nolan film will do a better job with it.

Penguin portrayal had its ups and downs. I certainly wouldn't write the movie off though. Keaton actually didn't totally piss me off the entire film like he did in the first film as a terrible Batman. He kind of grew into the role, as he seemed completely inappropriate for it in the first film.

Take the film in perspective as a still-a-bit-80's-early-90's Batman and it holds up pretty well.
12 years 10 months ago
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sqcat

Sort of sillier than I remembered it. Maybe it's because I've seen the Batman '66 episodes that inspired the Penguin's mayoral run.
11 months ago
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mowgli1337

Still the best. Timmy knows how to get the work done
10 years 2 months ago
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Siskoid

Tim Burton's Batman Returns is visually and tonally of a piece with his first Batman film, that is to say, it strikes an odd chord between camp and Gothic horror. At times, you wonder if Batman's even in this, given the number of villains on parade. There's a ruthless businessman named after a famous vampire actor, a revenant Catwoman animated by vengeful cat spirits, a revolting mutated Penguin written as Quasimodo with a heart of coal, and a gang of sewer clowns for good measure. Batman, in contrast, in sometimes little more than a bystander (Burton not being a very good action director hurts him probably as much as the screenplay's disinterest in the hero). It's got some good bits, like a snowy Gotham Christmas, a masquerade where only the masks come barren-faced, the giant rubber ducky, Michelle Pfeiffer's pretty great... But my problem with the movie was and remains how vile the Penguin is. My memory was that he was gory and icky, but watching him now, decades later, it's the "inappropriate sexual behavior" that turns my stomach. I get that they were sort of floating the idea of Catwoman as a feminist icon, but they don't hit that theme hard enough to justify Cobblepot acting like a real-world politician. Felt out of place. I just don't want to be thinking about the script's misogyny while watching your big, noisy,silly, superhero movie.
6 years 3 months ago
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frankqb

This Batman was greyer and grimmer than the 1989 debut of Keaton, and I felt Danny DeVito's blood-spewing Penguin portrayal ruined the film for me.
13 years 8 months ago
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saydin7

disaster movie
13 years 4 months ago
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mook

Looks good but Keaton's dull, Catwoman/origin is ridiculous & plot's nonsense. Borders on "BM & Robin" at times. 5/10.

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11 years 3 months ago

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