To tell you the honest to goodness truth I don't know what the problem people have with this sequel. I absolutely adored it, I thought Tim Burton really captured Gotham City and its characters perfectly here. Yes at times it is a bit gothic and dark, but they call the place Gotham for a reason! Someone argued that the movie was too highly sexualized for kids. So what?! Don't bring them. Let the teenagers have the fun, we're the ones who really went out to see this movie anyway. But I digress.
Batman Returns is one of time Burton's most artfully done live-action films, next to Edward Scissorhands that is. The cinematography is beautiful and really gives an air of that 1940's feel. Story wise the script could not have been better. With the love/hate relationship between Catwoman/Selina Kyle and Batman/Bruce Wayne, the story elevates itself from a mere get-the-bad-guy type comic book movie.
Michelle Pfeiffer also struts her stuff well as the Catwoman.She starts off as the feeble and repressed secretary of one of the films villains, Max Schreck, then shows us her complete antithesis in the Catwoman. The most memorable scene in the movie is when she freaks out over the telephone message on her machine and lays waste to her apartment symbolizing the end of the weak and diminutive Selina Kyle and the emergence of her alter ego.
Danny De Vito also deserves raves for his portrayal of the Penguin. His character could have easily been overshadowed by the sultry dominatrix style of Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman, but amazingly he gives his character his own brash sense of power allowing him to be on equal footing with his female counterpart. Quite a feat!
The reason why this movie does good with its drama and comic book flair and its sequels don't(which I will not get into here, its too depressing DAM YOU JOEL SCHUMAKER!) is that Tim Burton approached this movie from the comic's perspective, not from the campy TV series. The comic book had the emotions and the feelings of its characters respected and that's what Tim Burton brought out in the movie, the fun and the fury. An example in this is best shown in the Penguin's death scene. The sounds that the large emperor penguins make sounds almost like actual sobbing laments, you almost feel yourself wanting to cry too. Artfully done Tim!!
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