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Summary: Better than the first!!
Review: This is by far the best of the Batman movies in the series. Batman's main villain is the horrible Penguin whose malacious goals is to kill Gothan City's first-born children. This is better than the first one and sadly the last good one in the series. "Forever" was okay but a major step down and "Batman and Robin" was pure manure. Go and buy this movie and the first one. Avoid the latter two. Eom!
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Summary: The darkest Batman film of the series, also the finest one!!
Review: Batman Returns in my opinion is my finest overall of the Batman series. The first one was excellent with good ol' Jack as the Joker. He is just the man! and who could forget him and his crew destroying the paintings while Prince' funk song "Partyman" plays in the background {very funny scene} But the 1989 Batman is now a snapshot in time a film of the past. 3 years went by and we are in 1992 with Batman Returns. Gone is the artsy quirkiness of the original. This sequal has a much darker and angrier undertone to it. The first one kind of had an Autumnal feeling to it {especially the scenes showing Wayne Manor.}Michael Keaton is once again awesome and tough as Batman and believably sophisticated and melancholy as millionare Bruce Wayne. Michelle Phieffer is sexy and mysterious,and kind of nerdy as Catwoman/Selina Kyle .Danny DeVito is hiddeous as the deformed Penguin. Christopher Walken is a real creep as wealthy businessman Max Schreck {I feel sorry for any secretaries that have a boss that soulless}In this second chapter of the series Batman battles the disturbed Penguin who tries to become Mayor of Gotham City. And Catwoman who is hellbent on killing her boss and getting our hero "out of the picture" until she and Bruce discover a shocking secret about themselves. There are some really awesome scenes in this movie. the part in the beginning when the bat signal reflects off the Wayne manor walls and Keaton stands up in front of it, very nicely shot! Michael Keaton is the bomb as Batman!nobody can replace him! also the scene when Batman has to get away from the cops and the sides of the batmobile split off and the torpedo car flies through the narrow alley. Tim Burton is such a cinematic and artistic genius too bad he and Keaton didn't do all four Batman movies... If you had the privledge of seeing the first one on the big screen, Batman Returns is the one you wanna see next. Both are of 5 star quality in terms of casting design production and music If you have any interest in Batman or are a hardcore fan of his legacy like me, see the first two batman films they will not dissapoint!
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Summary: "Meow."
Review: Far and away the best of the Batman movies, Tim Burton has a handle on the fairground-for-lunatics atmosphere of the world he's chosen to inhabit, and Keaton's down-to-earth sensibilities manage to support the Batman character, rather than taking away from it. The production design is fantastic (as was the first film's, which boasted the late, great Anton Furst), but the characters really shine through here - a pleasant surprise in a Tim Burton film. Absolutely the best of the lot is Michelle Pfeiffer's appallingly sexy Catwoman. Of all the actors, she seems to have the best handle on the duality of her character, going from shy and nervous to confident and scary in the blink of an eye just like... well, just like a real person. Danny DeVito's Penguin is another nasty treat; an obscene confection of excess and prosthetics wrapped up in a tuxedo, he's the scariest of the lot, and the most disturbing. The film's ace in the hole, however, is the halting, clumsy romance between Pfeiffer and Keaton, two characters so lost and broken that they seem to understand themselves only by understanding each other. It's a sad story, gleefully told, and it makes for a showstopping film.
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Summary: BATMAN RETURNS!! LITERALLY!!!
Review: If I were to do a report on my favourite movie, this is where iI would get my project information. The story begins on a dreadful night 33 years ago on Christmas Eve, when a respectable couple, The Cobblepot family, abandons their grouchy and horriblly disfigured baby by dumping him over a bridge in a basket. From there, the thrown away infant flows into the sewer where a rookery of penguins (who luckily happen to be in the area) discover the deformed child and take matters into their OWN hands/flippers. Anyway, with that said, i gotta say this is definetly the best (and darkest) movie I ever seen. And the acting is just as good as the first movie: Micheal Keaton once again does an outstanding job as Batman. Michelle Pfeiffer is stunning as Catwoman and Danny DeVito's performance as The Penguin is just......remarkable!!!!
If you see this movie, DON'T hesitate to get it, trust me, you'll love it!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: A man who looks like a bird, a women who has nine lives.
Review: If you liked the first one then you'll love Michael Keaton's last performance as "BATMAN"! It might not be the last Batman movie but to all fans of Batman it sure seems like it. In the other Batman movies after this one you won't find the shadowed figure in the dark, you won't find Gotham to be such a gothic place, you won't hear the brilliant and original Batman theme, you won't find enemy's such as the ones in Keaton's movies, and most important Michael Keaton is Batman no one can replace him. This movie is the best Christmas movie out there. It doesn't have Santa Claws riding around in a big red sled, no it has Batman and it's not a sled it's the Batmobile (the coolest car out there). But Jokers not the villain in this one it's "THE PENGUIN"! He's a man that is deformed and into a chubby big nosed three fingered penguin. Who has nothing better to do then kill all the first born children of Gotham City. And to put it into a blockbuster hit "CATWOMAN" is also on his side. The only one to stop them is... BAAA BA BA DAAA DAAA INNN "BATMAN"!
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Summary: I always come back to this movie...
Review: I have loved batman and this movie since I was four. And when asked what my favorite movie is, I always come back to this one. Maybe its the music, maybe it the great casting, maybe its fantastic directing, it maybe all three! One thing I know, its that this movie has been at the top of my list since as long as I can remember. Please, please, please get this one. It's a keeper and you will not be disappointed.
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Summary: Not as classic as the first but that was to be expected.
Review: First of all the first Batman movie was so excellent.There were times I must admit that I liked the dark side a little more than the good side. Well with Jack Nicholson's excellent acting ability it was easy to pick him as the best actor in the movie.The movie is dark,complex and impossible not to like.
If there is actor that could come close to being as good as Jack Nicholson in the Batman series was Danny Devito.He is deliciously creepy throughout the movie.And Catwoman was to die for.
This is one of those movies that I can see again and again and never get sick of it.
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Summary: Almost as good as the first one
Review: While Batman Returns isnt a stone cold classic like 1989's Batman but the fascinating characters and great special effects make Batman Returns one of those movies that you can watch again and again and again,etc. First of all there is a stunning appeal about Michelle Pfeiffer's role in that she is the only one who is any good fighting against Batman.Also its obvious that Selana (same actress as the alter ego) is romantically and sexually lustful of Bruce Wayne.
Then there is Danny Devito as The Penguin.He does a pretty impressive job too.I think its actually sort of cute that he sends all those little penguins to do his dirty work.Its like sending kitty cats or bunny rabbits to do the job.
The movie isnt as substantial and timeless as the first Batman movie but it is indeed entertaining.
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Summary: Burton redeems himself!
Review: As far as I'm concerned, this film was a VAST improvement over the first, empty, Spielbergian Batman movie, what with its horrific miscasting of Jack Nicholson as the Joker, the screwing up of the legend of who really killed Bruce Wayne's parents, (it was a character named Joey Chill, NOT Jack Napier,) not to mention Michael Keaton's poor reading of Bruce Wayne. This time, while the legend was STILL fiddled with a bit too much, it was compensated for by the excellent acting of Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, a better script than the first film, and a generally less "slapped-together" look to it. Pfeiffer is a revelation as Catwoman/Selina Kyle, taking a vacation from her usualy "nice girl" roles as the definitely mentally askew pseudo-nemesis of Batman. It's actually a little difficult to fully realize that it's Pfeiffer under that mask, the character is so against type for her. Danny Devito's Penguin is another matter altogether. Who conceived of the Penguin this way in Burton's camp? I have NEVER, repeat, NEVER seen the Penguin portrayed as a sewer-dwelling misfit riding herd on a band of ex-circus performers! Penguin's modus operandi has always been to steal and/or obsess over valuable objets d'arte pertaining to aviary subject matter. Here, he's a bedraggled adult orphan tending to Gotham's oddballs in the bowels of its sewer system....And where did Max Shrek come from? I love Devito's comedy in other films, most notably the "Romancing the Stone" movies, but I think they did the character an injustice here. However, it all comes together MUCH better than the first movie, which was rushed to the screen and looked it. The tension between Batman/Bruce Wayne and Catwoman/Selina Kyle works great, specifically when they're fighting each other in mufti. Christopher Walken's Max Shrek is a strutting villain made specifically for the movie that works just fine as the catalyst that makes Penguin REALLY dangerous and who also helped turn Selina Ktyle into Catwoman by attempting to murder her by pushing her out a window. One of the funniest lines in the movie is when Shrek realizes that Selina IS Catwoman and utters the immortal lines: "Selina...? Selina KYLE?! You're FIRED!" after she's dragged him into an electric relay station to exact revenge for trying to kill her and confronts Batman in the same place. This movie is MUCH more substantial than the first one. It's very similar to the difference between the first, useless, Spielbergian Star Trek TMP movie and the Wrath of Khan. I HIGHLY recommend this one rather than the first in the series.
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Summary: "Gentlemen, start your screaming!"
Review: Danny DeVito makes an execellent Penguine. And Catwoman teams up with the Penguine. Batman (Keaton) fights the two villains and defeats one of them. However, it isn't clear if Catwoman got away or not. One of the better Batman movies.
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