Rating: 
Summary: This movie stinks like a skunk.
Review: This film is dark. Gothom City is dark. The Batcave is dark. The people look like they live in constant fear, the production design went overboard when it came to the sets and the look of the City. Batman gets more screentime here then he did in the first movie, but what will make you dislike this whole movie is the repulisive Penquin, they did not have to make him that repulsive.
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Rating: 
Summary: Perfection and Deep Darkness in a Mainstream Film
Review: Certainly the darkest 'kid-material' based film ever made.
This film noir has great imagery, psychological depth and funny,
sad and outright dark black quotes plus brilliant, gothically
decayed nostalgic visuals. Also, four other characters represent the character 'Batman' in the movie. Max Shreck-the millionaire
businessman, Penguin-the orphaned outsider, Catwoman-the costumed
vigilante, and Bruce Wayne-the awkward, concealed identity of Batman, though his exact opposite, and the characters are all written to hint at it in the film, but it won't hit you over the head with it. The characters that are alive at the end of the film speak to
reveal it's main character's current mental health state. The
films plot concerns a character abandoned, literally thrown away
in his childhood because of being born with his irregular hands
causing him to look like a Penguin. Out of what he sees as vengeful justice, he becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, gradually assuming the role of the horrible monster that he always looked like. He is reluctantly accepted when he returns to society and is
given another chance. He decides somewhere along the way that he does not want to return to this city for some reason (or was it planned all along, while looking at the record list when he was supposedly searching for his human name, did he write down the first born sons of Gotham? Later Catwoman remarks that he already has an 'enemy list'
before staying long in Gotham). He 'forgives' his parents but is secretly blaming the city for his woes. Penguin tries to live
there but he cannot fully, he finds his sense of belonging seemed
like an illusion (like most Tim Burton films portray), he then,
self-destructively gives up, betrays their trust and bitterly
attempts to murder the innocent before his mayoral bid can be won.
Gotham City represents a lot of evil in this picture, Batman is
a brooding, anti-hero and he's one of the only good people in the
town -in film noir there are no heroes, this is the essence of
Gotham. There's a consistent motif of having the Penguin character
see everything he can't have through bars, if you look you'll find
him eyeing his parents (as the camera) behind bars and Catwoman
after she rejects him, etc. yet he never enters a jail cell. "Did you miss me... did you miss me?" Penguin, to his penguins A notable amount of biblical resemblance's here, a basket
carrying a baby down a river that is like from a story about Moses,
Penguin is exactly 33 years old when he arises, like Christ is
said to have after death at that exact age. Originally he was
originally supposed to actually state "yes, Virginia, there is
an anti-Christ!" in the ballroom scene, etc. Penguin reminds
some people of an evil man from 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang', he later wants to drown infants. "I am not a human being! I am an animal! Cold-Blooded!" When the actress portraying Catwoman/Selina Kyle is making the cat
costume, she opens a drawer with about four different colored
scissors, on Edward Scissorhands, Burton explained having scissors
in his films "is about, trying to touch someone, and not being
able to." That was established, as one of Catwoman's many problems,
no real love life. We know why she destroys the Shreck building,
because he is guilty of crimes and she cannot prove it, she sees
this as revenge, like Penguin does. In 'Batman Returns' there are
no situations that have a black or white answer, like film noir. Burton also said
that dressing up changes every character. As well look at how Burton depicts colorfully clothed overly happy people as stupid,
fake and annoying, without really changing much of anything about
people we know, this harsh contrast is obvious right before
the Penguin agrees to be mayor. Max Shreck (named after the
actor who played Nosferatu in 1922) is a murderous businessman
but in the ballroom scene he shows that even he loves his child,
unlike Penguin's parents, proving he does not deserve to die. The star character hardly gets shown as often as the others do
(because studio limitations dictate Batman wouldn't be allowed
to be portrayed as messed up as the villains in the movie so
you can't show much of the character or really learn about him,
therefore, the villains represent Batman). The song
'Super Freak' is in this movie as an instrumental during the masked ball, I think that must say something
about Batman! At the end with when the car stops, a sign reads 'Super Drug'. It all is clothed a very unreal, hazy, dreamlike
quality. The image at the cemetery where the Penguin looks down
at the ground with a gravestone cross above him and the first
time we see Bruce, staring out the window reflecting the bat
signal are my favourite parts. In the sewer, close to the finish, Batman/Bruce admits with Penguin, Shreck, and Catwoman there,
that he is Bruce Wayne, and that 'we're the same, split right
down the center'. He rips off his mask, and at that moment a
thread in Catwoman's mask breaks open to reveal her blond hair.
With an admitted (in the film) sad, though satisfying
Christmas-time end to it all, the movie was dismissed as a 'shallow'
script because of it's superhero nature (it does have some
bizarre fight scenes) and did not make as much money as was hoped.
Still, I think it's genius and it must be my favourite film,
nervous breakdowns and all. Batman debuted in 1938. "Go to heaven!"
Rating: 
Summary: More Clever, Much More Better than the First.
Review: After Defeating The Joker. Batman has to face Three New Villians-The Penguin (Danny DeVito) and the Seductively Sensational Catwoman (Michelle Pheiffer) and a Corrupted Business Man (Oscar-Winner:Christopher Walken). Directed by Tim Burton (Pee Wee`s Big Adventure, Sleepy Hollow, Beetlejuice) made a clever Dark Sequel. Better than the Original. One of the Highest Grossing films of 1992. Great moody score by Danny Elman. Grade:A-.
Rating:
Summary: Too good for words
Review: I can't express how good this movie is. I just love every single part of it. The only flaw which I would say this movie has would be the very sad ending.
Rating:
Summary: tim burton makes it again
Review: I REALLY ENJOYED IT. IT WAS A FANTASTIC FILM. GREAT CAST. THIS IS BETTER THAN 3,4. I DON'T REALLY MEAN THIS BUT IT WAS A BIT FASTER THAN THE FIRST BATMAN BUT I STILL ENJOY IT. THIS MOVIE YOU WILL ENJOY IT'S DARK IT'S COOL AND IT'S BATMAN.....
Rating:
Summary: Batman Returns, with a Cat and a Penguin
Review: A great movie. Dark, gothic with a great plot and a fantastic cast. Michael Keaton returns to play a great Batman/Bruce Wayne. Batman has a new costume in this movie. Michelle Pfeiffer plays a seductive Catwoman and s geeky Selina Kyle who, for some odd reason, is a secretary. By the way, can anyone tell me what happens when she fell out of the window? Danny DeVito plays the Penguin who, worryingly, IS a penguin. But other than a few raised eyebrows, this a great sequal, completely on par with it's prequal. Buy it!!!
Rating:
Summary: Batman Returns
Review: Great movie. The last good Batman. Usually seqeuls fall well short of the original but in this case it is not true. Although it may not be quite as good Catwoman is amzing and keaton is still the best Batman. A great movie made for entertainment.
Rating:
Summary: Catwoman stole the show.
Review: This is one of the best movies ever, in my opinion it is better that the first movie, the script is great. A mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it.
A kiss can be even deadlier if you mean it. Michelle Pfeiffer deserved some kind of recognition for her role, an Oscar or something.
Rating: 
Summary: Still no further on
Review: Ok , I liked this movie quite a lot: the batsuit , batmobile , and the way batman is played . But . hey , that doesny amount to an all round great movie , i was shocked when i read some reviews for this movie. It isnt 'great' or 'amazing , in fact it is poor. Do people forget that special effects and costumes do make a blockbuster? take the blair witch project. The villains are played poorly and have no real sense of evil especially catwoman who barely has a say. what about penguin? please!! danny de vito is annoying and frustrating in the role and his cause of death still confuses me - he seems to spit out some black stuff and die can someone enlighten me on this. is this intentional or is it a copout , more importantly is it a perfect example of how this movie was thrown together without regard for true batfans who want bats to stop being so two dimensional and solve crimes instead of just showing up out of the blue for no reason but to kill a couple of circus baddies. Michelle pffiefer may look good but has no depth or feelings. And the climax is a true......well........anticlimax . Please!!!!!!! hundreds of penguins with rockets tied to their backs! its embarassing and while selina lives we never hear of her ever again. michal keaton tries but fails and at the end of the film plays no part in penguin or catwomans dowmfall except to show his true identitiy for the sake of it, and wheres robin? . bruce and selinas romance is doomed from the start and their is no way their will be a happy ending for any character least of all bruce. this movie is sad not only because their is hardly any humor or happiness and not only because this movie is a lesson in how to make a movie make lots of money and hope no one notices how flawed it is but because had this movie have had afew tweaks before it was let out it could have been somuch better , only buy this if you have the first , the next too are much better.
Rating:
Summary: It was wonderful...
Review: Batman Returns was very good. The backgrounds made an nice-looking atmosphere going perfectly with the story and the different moments in the film. The story was basicly simple, but became better when Penguin and Catwoman met each other to ally up against Batman. There are things I did'nt understand, like when Celina Kael dies and cats bite her and then she gets back to life and has a weird cat influence. But this phenomenon was there to add some mystery to this dark movie. Batman is again fighting the bad guys, and living as Bruce Wayne, the nice billionaire. But there is one detail that everyone should forget to say the movie was at least a bit intelligent;forget that people don't recognize his voice when he has his Batman costume! But still this film was a lot of fun. This is a superhero movie, like the first Batman (not the other two things they called Batman Forever and Batman and Robin!!!!), these were the best superheroes movies of these years! But when you think about it, Batman is not really a superhero;he's just a man wearing a cape and a mask and who has a car named The Batmobile and a weird gun! BUT STILL THIS FILM, LIKE THE OTHER BATMAN WAS A LOT OF FUN AND HAD A TIM BURTON'S DARK ATMOSPHERE!!!
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