BATMAN RETURNS IS THE BEST BATMAN MOVIE

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  • Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
  • Gotham's Dark Knight has appeared in many movies over the years.
    From Batman The Movie to Zack Snyder's Justice League.
    But out of all these movies, I think one stands above the rest.... that movie being Batman Returns.
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  • @shanemoose3235
    @shanemoose3235 Год назад +60

    Actually, the whole Nine Lives thing with Catwoman is just a part of her psychosis as going through all those awnings broke her fall but she still hit the ground hard enough for her to delevop brain damage. Unlike Halle Berry's Catwoman which went full-on supernatural but could cause the viewer to develop brain damage.

    • @KoolKeithProductions
      @KoolKeithProductions Год назад +11

      Yeah that's what I thought too....UNTIL SHE WAS SHOT 5 TIMES AND WAS ELECTROCUTED, BUT STILL DIDNT DIE😅😅😅

    • @shanemoose3235
      @shanemoose3235 Год назад +1

      @Kool Keith Productions Those shots weren't fatal and I got nothing for the electrocution...Tim Burton's The Force?

  • @clown599
    @clown599 Год назад +35

    Max originally role in the movie was indeed for Harvey Dent in the early script, showing his duality as honest man and also shady criminal helping the Penguin in secret for his own gain. Catwoman at the end disfigure him with the taser, creating two-face. But Walken IN, Billy's OUT and that was scrapped. Max in a second script was wrote as secret brother of the Penguin. Glad it was changed. The best bat movie one indeed!

    • @shaunmills4611
      @shaunmills4611 Год назад +2

      This is a false rumour. Harvey Dent was in the original script by Sam Hamm but they decided to buy him out and do an original character. There is no way someone would only have one side of their face burnt if they were also taking all the volts from the generator passing through Catwoman's mouth over the taser. Originally she was to stab her talons into an open fuse box and Shreck was to shoot off a bullet that hits the taser and causes it to malfunction. She puts it in her mouth before kissing him instead of shoving the taser in his mouth.

    • @shaunmills4611
      @shaunmills4611 Год назад +2

      Also they were going to make Shreck related to penguin and play with the brother who was accepted into society and became rich compared to the abandoned freak.

    • @jonjones6764
      @jonjones6764 Год назад +3

      As stated, Daniel Waters has stated they were never to be the same character. Waters even wanted Dent to show signs of his duality by flipping a coin when deciding if he was going to get involved in the whole fiasco, and decides to sit back and just watch things happen

  • @nbarealtalker
    @nbarealtalker Год назад +118

    This is the definitive Batman movie as well as definitive Tim Burton movie. This is everything a Batman movie should be. A character driven story about his impact on his universe. Everyone was a scarred animal, the plot was fantastical and ridiculous with rocket launching penguins. And yet the human emotion and rawness of the characters shined through so strong. It’s really everything a movie should be.

    • @SeasideDetective2
      @SeasideDetective2 Год назад +6

      Do you think there will ever be a true sequel to this, BATMAN FOREVER notwithstanding?

    • @nbarealtalker
      @nbarealtalker Год назад +12

      @@SeasideDetective2 can’t be done. Part of my wishes for it but the other part of me knows to leave it be. A masterpiece can’t be perfected with further storytelling.
      Batman Forever was a pretty solid sequel in the way it addressed Batman assessing his impact on the world around him with Bruce trying to stop Dick Grayson from walking down the same path.

    • @SeasideDetective2
      @SeasideDetective2 Год назад +5

      @@nbarealtalker But I think what audiences really want to see is Bruce Wayne reconciled with Vicki Vale and (especially) a post-Catwoman Selina Kyle. I even imagine Bruce, very old and near death, marrying Vicki in order to prove to himself that he's finally moved beyond Batman. He and Selina, meanwhile, would commiserate about the deaths each of them has caused.

    • @nsasupporter7557
      @nsasupporter7557 Год назад +3

      @@nbarealtalkerno it’s not! The definitive Batman movie was the first movie from 1989.
      This wasn’t even a Batman movie, it was a Tim Burton that happened to have Batman in it. It was literally a repeat of Edward Scissorhands with the Penguin, it wasn’t about Batman

    • @nbarealtalker
      @nbarealtalker Год назад +6

      @@nsasupporter7557 I agree it was a very Tim Burton movie. And typically I’m not a huge fan of Tim Burton movies. But in this case, his decisions worked. I think Batman is at his best when he’s forced to face the impact he’s having in his universe head on like he does with Catwoman in Returns. When Batman has to wonder if he’s the problem as much as the solution, it makes for great filmmaking.
      I think in movies, we long to see characters do things we thought we’d never see them do. Batman ripping his mask off and pleading with Selina like a lovestruck warrior of the night was definitely unexpected.
      And what I love most about Returns is that it doesn’t have a happy ending. Nobody really gets what they want in the end. That’s kinda par for the course in modern movies but in 1992, let alone for a “kids” movie, an ending like that was unheard of. And Batman shouldn’t get the girl, or what he wants, or happiness in the end. He’s a tormented character. Everything in this movie just fit, even though it was a little off the rails. Because the characters were so strong and so human. They all just wanted to be loved.

  • @dpistons149
    @dpistons149 Год назад +9

    Selina Kyle transforming into cat women was so creepy. I loved it as a kid and replayed the VHS so many damn times. It wasn’t too dark.

  • @dodododoliciu1253
    @dodododoliciu1253 Год назад +26

    Thank you so much for this retrospective over Batman Returns. In my opinion it is the best Batman movie. The characters were build so good and complex and it is so obvious that they put so much effort into it. I hope we will be getting a movie that will surpass Batman Returns but i highly doubt it.

  • @brandon.c85
    @brandon.c85 Год назад +12

    This will always be my favourite Batman. I was seven when it was released and I was just so enthralled by it all.
    Also, Michelle Pfeiffer is always going to be my Catwoman. She played that role purrrfectly. And Danny DeVito as Penguin - he played that part “like a harp from hell.”

    • @Red-Wolf-Ben
      @Red-Wolf-Ben Год назад +1

      I think we're the same age, and I agree with ever word of your comment!

    • @brandon.c85
      @brandon.c85 Год назад +1

      @@Red-Wolf-Ben I’d literally write fanfic in school about Batman after watching this movie. My third grade teacher told me I had to start writing other content 🤣

    • @Red-Wolf-Ben
      @Red-Wolf-Ben Год назад +1

      @@brandon.c85 Cool! What sort of fanfiction? Was it just Batman centered, or did it include other DC characters?

    • @brandon.c85
      @brandon.c85 Год назад +1

      @@Red-Wolf-Ben it was definitely Batman-exclusive, haha. Admittedly, I’d always write pages and pages of different stories but was never able to conclude them, so it was always left as a “to be continued.” I remember stories centred around Catwoman and Penguin mostly. Haha! I wish I had at least one copy of the stories.

  • @hitmanmonaghan6633
    @hitmanmonaghan6633 Год назад +8

    I was 13 when this movie came out. So I really appreciate this version of Catwoman.

  • @jwnj9716
    @jwnj9716 Год назад +17

    Favourite Batman movie and score. Those silly pictures of Christopher Walken with Arnold & Elvis lol.

  • @daysofapril2667
    @daysofapril2667 Год назад +5

    This is the first movie I ever saw in the theater. When Batman: The Animated Series came out a couple of years later, it made complete sense (in my mind) as a follow up. I love it all so much.

  • @shanekixmiller2133
    @shanekixmiller2133 Год назад +8

    Dent and Knox would have been amazing if they were featured in Batman returns. It would have made a lot of sense. Knox in particular, for me, was always one of the most interesting characters from these films and I absolutely loved seeing him show up briefly in the crisis on infinite earths CW crossover event. Wouldn't it be amazing if somehow they worked his character into a cameo somewhere in The flash movie? So much of that movie has been spoiled already, but there are a lot of surprise cameos in it, a Knox Cameo would blow me out of the water.

  • @diogohenriquemagal6960
    @diogohenriquemagal6960 Год назад +24

    If you take into consideration that Burton's Batman is heavily inspired by the 40s and 50s comics, everything falls into place: the penguin aspires aristocracy and luxury, even though he's a criminal with a penchant for birds, and also a deformed man (Burton took it to the extreme); Catwoman's first on paper origin is of a flight attendant, post plane crash, with amnesia and a second personality as result of the accident... It kinda works in the Burton verse. I've always liked these interactions, as much as the modern comics and the Nolanvere (my favourite interation thus far) - they're all Batman mythos, different eras

  • @shanekixmiller2133
    @shanekixmiller2133 Год назад +4

    I was blessed enough to be able to go catch Batman 89 and returns as a double feature at a drive-in movie theater a couple of years ago. I've been to movie theaters hundreds of times and seen countless movies, new and old, but this was definitely one of my greatest viewing experiences.

  • @LuisCesarJimenez
    @LuisCesarJimenez Год назад +2

    I always thought it was a generational thing…that because I was born in the 80’s and grew up with the Keaton/Burton films that I would always favor them over later, more “true to the source” movies like the Nolan or even Snyder (lol). In other words, that I couldn’t be arsed to view these movies without nostalgia colored lenses. But I think you nailed it when you mentioned the part about Burton making a world that the Batman would live in rather than trying to mold Batman to fit into our world, which I’m honestly trying to get away from if I’m indulging in these films. Anyhow, amazing stuff, I completely agree. Thank you.

  • @shanekixmiller2133
    @shanekixmiller2133 Год назад +4

    Yes! I'm glad that someone else besides me finally said it! As much as I love and appreciate the comic book version of the penguin, to me, growing up in the 90s watching this movie nearly every day on VHS, Danny DeVito's depiction and version is and always will be what I think of when someone mentions this character.

  • @empty_melodies
    @empty_melodies Год назад +6

    This is probably my favorite Batman movie. Also this movie makes me CARE about Selina. I feel for her in this story.

  • @jolfer1334
    @jolfer1334 Год назад +6

    That was an amazing cameo

  • @randomericthings7506
    @randomericthings7506 Год назад +3

    Batman 1989 No Kill Rule
    Batman (1989):
    - Jack Napier: Batman tried to save him but he slipped and fell into the vat of chemicals.
    - Goon at Axis Chemicals: Batman went through the trouble of catching him with his bat-rope and tying him on a rail to prevent him from falling.
    - Blowing up Axis Chemicals
    The goons followed him into the factory, he didn’t go out of his way to kill them. Second of all he was controlling the car by remote control so we don’t know how limited his view of what was around him was. Thirdly the explosion took time to fully destroy the building and the bat mobile made it out completely unharmed with those two in mind it is possible that the goons could’ve made it out or survived. We don’t know how many henchmen were at the factory if there were any inside or just outside guarding the place.
    - Firing at goons on parade floatation
    If you look closely you can see the missiles/bullets hitting below the goons feet or their feet, or behind them, nowhere lethal.
    - Attempting to shoot the Joker
    I have to believe it was a warning shot of some kind because you cannot tell me that Batman, the world’s greatest detective, can miss a target with that much ammo that close.
    - Pulling goon off bell tower
    This was a definite kill but one that was a life or death situation. Batman was hanging from a ledge and had to deal with several pounds of rubber/Kevlar suit; he couldn’t simply try getting back up otherwise that henchman would’ve just knocked him back down, so he either let himself fall, try to get up without taking down the goon and then get knocked back down and either fall or catch the ledge again, or grab the goon with his legs in order to pull him down securing his way onto the platform. Also once again Batman didn’t go out of his way to put himself in a situation that called for killing someone.
    - Attaching gargoyle to the Joker
    There are several ways the Joker could’ve survived this; could’ve let go of the latter and end up in a position like “The Dark Knight” Joker, cut the rope with something allowing himself to continue climbing free of the gargoyle, ordered his pilot to bring the copter to the roof so he could untie it.
    Batman Returns:
    - Setting goon on fire with bat mobile
    Goon could easily have put the fire out with the cold snow and do drop and roll.
    - Putting bomb on Penguin goon
    According to Tim Burton this didn’t kill him. So it’s possible Batman knew it wasn’t lethal and would just cause serious injury at worst.
    This one is the hardest to defend/explain away. You could argue self-defense as Batman has a no killing in cold blood rule, but that’s stretching it.
    - The Penguin
    Batman had nothing to do with his death; the Penguin pressed the button that launched the missiles and then fell through a window after freaking out over a swarm of bats surrounding him. We even see Batman go towards where the Penguin fell to try and check on what happened to him.
    - Attempted to arrest Max Shreck
    Finally Batman intended on arresting Shreck and sending him to prison.
    Conclusion: Tim Burton’s Batman does have a no kill rule, it’s definitely not as strict as most versions of the character but it’s definitely there.
    Compare that to Ben Affleck’s Batman who rammed into vehicles full of henchmen and goons, shooting and blowing up vehicles, towing a truck and slamming it into another vehicle, branding criminals like some kind of slave trader, bashing a guy’s head in with a crate, snapping someone’s neck by bashing their head into the hard wooden floor.
    Most of Keaton’s Batman kills were merely incidental or in the spur of the moment, he never went out of his way to inflict death, assuming you ignore the points above.

  • @luisrizo8813
    @luisrizo8813 Год назад +4

    09:37; fun fact: Keaton blackballed her from appearing in the 1989 film, because they had dated previously and was worried about his marriage.

  • @Blondie472
    @Blondie472 Год назад +2

    It's always been my favorite comic book movie.
    Watch it every Christmas.

  • @nathanbovee36
    @nathanbovee36 Год назад +1

    That Knox interview. Mad respect

  • @griffincantley3465
    @griffincantley3465 Год назад +4

    I miss Kevin Conroy so much 😢

  • @BonkyBoko9
    @BonkyBoko9 Год назад +1

    I honestly think that whole scene where Bruce messed up with his words wasn’t in the script, you can see Michael look at the camera confused, and then quickly looking back as if someone behind the camera was telling him to just go with it!

  • @rigelb9025
    @rigelb9025 Год назад

    @ 8:35 Did she just mimick the shifting eyeballs of the Felix The Cat clock?? Man, what a sweet & devilish little touch I had never particularly noticed.

  • @ThornCult
    @ThornCult Год назад +3

    Best Batman check. Best Catwoman ever check. Best Penguin ever check. Best Batman movie ever check.

  • @LukeLovesRose
    @LukeLovesRose Год назад +1

    These movies inspired everything that we know and love in Batman: The Animated Series so give them their due.
    And after watching Tim Burtons original Batman, Jack Nicholsons Joker is still terrifying and unnerving

  • @sirjorroc8967
    @sirjorroc8967 Год назад +1

    I'm with you on Batman Returns, there were a couple of years where I thought Nolan and Christian Bales Dark knight was the better Batman but I eventually realized that Tim Burton and Michael Keatons Batman 89 and Batman Returns are Still my favorite Batman movies. The true test is how many times I can repeat a movie, I have watched the Dark Knight so many times since it was released and the same can be said for Begins but I have watched Batman 89 and Returns all my life, I can easily rewatch either one of them at almost any time, I cannot say the same for the Dark Knight trilogy. The Dark Knight trilogy are awesome movies, I just really have to be in the mood for them.

  • @sirjorroc8967
    @sirjorroc8967 Год назад +1

    Knox could have easily been that reporter that popped up in the movie every now and then. In fact, all the last couple of times i watched, i couldn't help wonder why it actually wasn't him.

  • @efrainrodriguez6092
    @efrainrodriguez6092 Год назад +3

    One of my all time favorite Batman movies 🍿

  • @bigwhopper6501
    @bigwhopper6501 Год назад +1

    The animated series didn't want to use returns penguin design, they had to because WB told them to. They later did their own comic book accurate version in the new adventures of batman and Robin

  • @NicholasNathaniel7
    @NicholasNathaniel7 Год назад +1

    This film only works as a sequel. It’s perfection in every way, but 89’ deserves respect for making this possible, slowly peeling away the layers of Batman, being a staple that changes super hero films, and much more. It’s just like when people rave about The Dark Knight, I get it but let’s not disrespect Batman Begins and all it accomplished at the time. Great breakdown as always! I believe Michelle and Keaton also broke up before shooting this film, so the fact that they got along and had such chemistry is outstanding!

  • @shanekixmiller2133
    @shanekixmiller2133 Год назад +2

    I was just watching The Dark Knight yesterday. While it is a fantastic film for multiple reasons, they really s*** the bed as far as the depiction of Gotham City itself. Yes, I understand that they were going for the more realistic tone and feel with this trilogy, but at least and Batman begins Gotham had some sort of character. Moving forward, it was just blatantly Chicago. A good Batman movie set in Gotham must utilize Gotham itself as a character. That was one of the best parts of the new Matt Reeves Batman film. You really got a feel in a vibe for the city. You really understood what it was like to walk at streets and live in it every day. The city itself in a Batman film must always be represented and it honestly is an even bigger character than Batman and any of the others. Because without the city, you wouldn't have Batman in the first place. Vapor trail and characterization of Gotham City is everything. And I don't think there's a single Batman film out there that has done it better since Batman returns. This is what I think about when someone mentions Gotham City. It's Gothic, dark, the architecture is strange, it's very much old and storied, yet mixed in with things from the new world. And we get to see it in all of its beauty in the winter time, which is something I would like to see more in Batman films. Gotham has just never been better.

    • @Picnicl
      @Picnicl Год назад +1

      I outright hate the Nolan movies.

    • @shanekixmiller2133
      @shanekixmiller2133 Год назад

      @@Picnicl I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that. Most people think they're the greatest Batman movies ever. I love them myself, but there are others higher on my list. May I ask why you don't like them? The most fun and interesting thing about fandom to me is to see everyone's differing opinions and point of views.

    • @Picnicl
      @Picnicl Год назад

      @@shanekixmiller2133 Because they're clearly not Gotham. They're just a modern city. It completely breaks my suspension of disbelief. And they utterly lack Burton's sense of theatre and mood.

  • @StarPlatinumV
    @StarPlatinumV Год назад +2

    I love this film simply because Batman became the first DJ super hero on film!
    I am gonna play the city like a HARP FROM HELL! I didn't know Bruce Wayne could cut and scratch.

  • @Picnicl
    @Picnicl Год назад +3

    Initially, I resented that Gotham in Returns looks less grimy 'Gotham' than in 1989s. Even now, I do. It's a great set - I'm just not convinced it's Gotham. Returns' Gotham seems small, like if small town America had a German Expressionist architect design some of it. It always feels that I'm in a film studio. Despite that, the camp sight of the Ice Princess being flustered by bats, to the Penguin using an umbrella as a helicopter, to his motorised duck, makes me feel that Burton wanted some 1960s camp in there. It's just that it probably feels incongruous next to some of the sophisticated architectural design. If only Gotham felt larger than it does here. It's really like Edward Scissorhands meets The Nightmare Before Christmas but could have used a bit more scale. And, even with Christopher Walken pushing Selina and Penguin biting someone's nose, it's never as outright scary as Batman 1989. I suppose it never meant to be. We never really see Max or Penguin just plotting on their own. It's more a dark cartoon whereas Batman 1989 was also a 1940s gangster movie in feel. I just wish that Returns had an extra underpinning angle like Batman 1989 did. As it is, Returns feels less real, more deliberately like a pantomimish show, an aspect that, unfortunately, would caracturise the following 2 movies. But Returns does give a show, I just think that, by concentrating on giving a show, we have little option than to think how Nicholson gave a better one.

  • @akaychi
    @akaychi Год назад +1

    Im proud of you bro. You consistently crank out quality videos, and get big names involved every time i turn around. Keep it up. keep networking. Billy Dee still lives in NY, hell you can find out how much a booking request would be. he has profiles out there hit him up, get an interview before the next Pattinson batman movie. if you didn't see yet they're down to between Joel Edgerton or Josh Harnett for the next Two-Face.

  • @devinthadude88able
    @devinthadude88able Год назад +1

    Weird Fact, Tim Burton didn’t want to cast or see Christopher Walken. As Burton stated, Walken scared him!!! That makes sense. Complete & utter sense

  • @neilcoatham
    @neilcoatham Год назад +11

    That music used in Selina's transformation scenes in her flat is so beautifully sad and shows her descent into madness perfectly

  • @juanwhitfield7626
    @juanwhitfield7626 Год назад

    The chemistry betwixt the 🦇 and the 😺.. "appropriate sparks are flying, somebody cue the power ballad."

  • @savanaviolenta
    @savanaviolenta Год назад +1

    Batman returns is my ultimate favourite movie,it has darkness, fetishism,erotic,blood its amazing.No other batman movie had had that since BR.Its a masterpiece.

  • @xtrmmjl1
    @xtrmmjl1 Год назад +1

    My favorite Batman movie! I remember seeing this in the theater with my dad when I was only 9 years old. It felt so scandalous for going to a PG-13 movie when I wasn't 13 haha!

  • @randomericthings7506
    @randomericthings7506 Год назад

    Head Canon:
    Those cats that turned Selina Kyle into Catwoman were experiments of Professor Hugo Strange.

  • @BigJonB36
    @BigJonB36 4 месяца назад

    I heard Burton wanted to use Killer Croc rather than Penguin, and that's why he's written so feral in this movie. Studio wanted one of the big 4 from the Adam West series so he went with Penguin

  • @nikolugo
    @nikolugo Год назад

    I didn't know people were divided on this movie I was 3 years old when Batman Returns came out until I got an older and I was watching a lot of reviews on RUclips about this film

  • @AAVVVAAADDAAAKAAADAVRAAA
    @AAVVVAAADDAAAKAAADAVRAAA Год назад +1

    Still wish we got a 3rd but noooo merchandise

  • @williamseneyjr.6277
    @williamseneyjr.6277 Год назад

    Fun fact;
    The actor that plays Max Shrek's son would go onto play Leatherface in the Platinum Dunes Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake.

  • @SemperBarta
    @SemperBarta Год назад

    So fucking cool to get Robert Wuhl to comment. That was awesome.

  • @startigers
    @startigers 10 месяцев назад

    I couldn't agree with you more Vee. It's been 30 years and am still IN LOVE with this movie. It's also my christmas movie. By far the best Batman movie

  • @sadetwizelve
    @sadetwizelve Год назад +3

    I’VE ALWAYS SAID THIS AND DEFENDED THIS MOVIE!

  • @livingweaponnightmare
    @livingweaponnightmare Год назад

    Watching this is a Christmas tradition

  • @readingandrighting8178
    @readingandrighting8178 Год назад

    Been my Xmas eve movie for decades and by proxy my children, eldest daughter went to The Batman 5 times, there may be a interloper :)

  • @samedwards4633
    @samedwards4633 Год назад

    Batman returns is my favorite too man, i love your take on it 🎉

  • @XZAVIER-DAA-GOD
    @XZAVIER-DAA-GOD Год назад +5

    No it's the best Batman X-mas movie

    • @pezzz182
      @pezzz182 Год назад +2

      This comments gonna blow up with likes any minute now 😂

  • @JamesB-mg9pk
    @JamesB-mg9pk Год назад +2

    Still is my favorite Batman movie. I do think there are a couple of Batman movies that are better technically but this just hits everything for me. Also Michael Keaton is Batman.

  • @wilbertrobinson205
    @wilbertrobinson205 Год назад

    Christopher Walken was supposed to be Billy Dee Williams & that kiss with that killed him was supposed be how Harvey ended up becoming 2 face.

  • @Gunthusiest
    @Gunthusiest Год назад

    I have to believe that Salina and Bruce had more interactions.

  • @pinkharvey1312
    @pinkharvey1312 Год назад +1

    Yes yes it is

  • @-Anonymous-.
    @-Anonymous-. Год назад +1

    Guys, no this movie is not better than The Dark Knight or Batman.
    HOWEVER, this movie is a Dark Twisted Fairy Tale & that’s why this movie is so special.
    It ends on a somber/depressing note opposed to an actual fairy tale with an Happily ever after ending.
    You don’t get movies like this often, especially a comic book movie.
    I disliked it as a kid, but loved it as an adult.

  • @featherguardian6023
    @featherguardian6023 Год назад +1

    For a Movie that Tim Burton didn’t want to a Batman Movie,It’s Really Good and One of the Best Batman Movies Ever Made with a Catwoman and Penguin that’s perhaps the Best they ever been portrayed in Live Action other than Rises Catwoman or The Batman in General.

  • @592Ken
    @592Ken Год назад

    I strongly agree

  • @TheNITRO68
    @TheNITRO68 Год назад

    At the end I was so hoping for Mark Hamills Joker, oh well at least we got the original Bats :)

  • @SeasideDetective2
    @SeasideDetective2 Год назад

    For better or worse, yes, Tim Burton is a revisionist mythologist, and he does, indeed, put a personal, unique spin on everything he interprets. But I actually like that. Though many film buffs probably think of him as being more European in style than American, I think he is very American in the way he reinvents old myths for a modern world. He was also one of the very first filmmakers (born 1958) to grow up in the wake of the 1950s, the decade when American popular culture really exploded. As a result, he is what you might call the first postmodernist Hollywood filmmaker - someone whose life has been characterized by a mass-media education instead of what used to be called a "classical" education. He is to movies what Jim Morrison was to rock music. And, like Morrison - and unlike Quentin Tarantino, to whom he's often been compared - he manages to transcend kitsch and go all the way up to high art, partly because he does incorporate at least a few classical elements. (I should mention that Alice Cooper is arguably an even better example of a postmodernist rocker, and one who fits more comfortably with Burton's sensibilities, especially since Burton says he was directly inspired by him. But I cited Morrison because he did the postmodern thing in pop music first.)
    And make no mistake: BATMAN RETURNS, even more so than BATMAN (1989), is a masterpiece of postmodernism. Even when I was first watching it as a preteen, I recognized that I was watching something the likes of which the world had never seen before - certainly, something Batman fans had never seen before (unless, perhaps, they had read Frank Miller's DARK KNIGHT, which I had not). Almost everything is reinterpreted to the point that it's not what it once was. The hero, even more so than in the '89 film, is a borderline sadistic anarcho-fascist. The "gentleman villain" is a Frankenstein-like monster. The beloved philanthropist is a megalomaniac more similar to Lex Luthor than to the "Santa Claus" he claims to be. A troupe of circus performers are anarchists and terrorists. An apparently untouchable beauty queen is scarred by a Batarang to the face - and then has every bone in her body broken. The "cat burglar" of the film never actually steals anything, and as a secretary she disrespects and ultimately dominates her boss. A politician is embraced by the citizenry despite being thoroughly repulsive. (Come to think of it, that one is no longer so far-fetched!) A Christmas party becomes a Halloween party, as is mentioned here. Even the Gotham Zoo looks like an archaeological ruin once inhabited by a civilization that was completely insane. Tim's imagination was firing on all cylinders here.
    And when it comes to high art, BATMAN RETURNS is a very good example as well. It is Gothic not only aesthetically but thematically. There are references to and evocations of Milton, Coleridge, Byron, and (as I previously implied) Mary Shelley. I even see a bit of Herman Melville in there, interpreting the Penguin as a reimagining of Captain Ahab from MOBY DICK. Yes, this is all very highbrow for a superhero film, but that's precisely my point. From the opening scene of a baby being set adrift on a river in a basket, this summer blockbuster dares to incorporate mythic elements. It's a rare gem from the 1990s, which I otherwise thought to be a very culturally crass decade. Don't get me wrong: I also love some of the more farcical films of the '90s, such as HOME ALONE, ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE, and OFFICE SPACE. But I include BATMAN RETURNS with THE CROW and Burton's own THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS as one of the not-so-gay Nineties' cinematic treasures.

  • @mtd1089
    @mtd1089 11 месяцев назад

    I would love to meet Robert Wuhl one day

  • @dominicflores4756
    @dominicflores4756 Год назад

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤ i 100% agree

  • @daneoman1000
    @daneoman1000 Год назад

    no way, it's Batman Begins for me. And Keaton was my Batman as a kid.

  • @junmendoza4247
    @junmendoza4247 Год назад

    Correct!

  • @donjon1179
    @donjon1179 Год назад

    I’m a Pattinson/Bale Shill, have always had the belief that outside of the TDK and now ‘The Batman’ Batman returns is without question my 2nd or 3rd fav Batman movie, it nails Gotham city to a T

  • @dustywaynemusic6297
    @dustywaynemusic6297 Год назад

    Is it the best movie that features Batman? Probably not, that's probably The Dark Knight. Is it my favorite Batman movie? Oh yeah. Absolutely love this movie. Watch it every Christmas.

  • @FireLight_Zero
    @FireLight_Zero Год назад +1

    Another great thing about Batman Returns? The Super Nintendo game.

  • @talariswatts-el9196
    @talariswatts-el9196 Год назад

    Good review.

  • @AnotherSWnerd
    @AnotherSWnerd Год назад

    Danny Devitos Penguin scared me so much as a kid that I'd skip his scenes 😂

  • @auntiewewe972
    @auntiewewe972 Год назад +3

    I've always thought the Burton version of Batman was superior to Nolan. Burton's more comic book feel, garish designs, atmosphere, plays much more to " Batman" than any other this side of BTAS. I akways enjoyed Batman 89. It wasn't perfect but it had heart, and love. Returns is a Burton movie with Batman, and Batman characters. It's why he did it. He never wanted to do a sequel until they gave him complete control. It certainly is different. And its easy to see why some love it and others hate it. It's cliche to say Batman needs to be dark, noir. I felt 89 did a great job of that. To me it just feels like the Burtonverse took over the previous world. Unique, strange, odd, Victorian/ Edwardian, London atmosphere. It's definitely enjoyable and better than what ever has followed ( yes even The Dark Knight). I'm just disappointed we didn't get Depp as Max Shreck, and Helena Bonham Carter as Catwoman

  • @kennethbrewer4473
    @kennethbrewer4473 Год назад

    Thank you this is probably my favorite Batman movie

  • @gyokkers3774
    @gyokkers3774 Год назад

    PREACH
    I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS

  • @NateIsCorrupt
    @NateIsCorrupt Год назад

    Love this movie 🍿

  • @Axetwin
    @Axetwin Год назад

    I think Colin Farrel's Penguin could give Devito's Penguin a run for it's money.

  • @Mannizilla
    @Mannizilla Год назад +1

    Best Catwoman 😍

  • @williammitchell4417
    @williammitchell4417 Год назад

    Michelle Pfeiffer was awesome in this movie. Danny DeVito was priceless as the Penguin!!

  • @christophercameron2141
    @christophercameron2141 Год назад

    The first Batman movie Keaton did with Tim Burton is the best out of the two? Batman Returns was watchable because of Michelle Pfeiffer! Beautiful talented women who shows her strength and weakness brilliantly!

  • @robinbarker5407
    @robinbarker5407 Год назад

    My all-time favourite Batman film.

  • @brandonnewby178
    @brandonnewby178 Год назад

    Batdance? Did you misspell Batusi? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @Kelly4370
    @Kelly4370 Год назад

    "Batman Returns" IS My Favorite Batman with Mr. Keaton playing Batman... Danny DeVito WAS my FAVORITE Villian in the Batman Movies, Up until Heath Ledger's "JOKER"... Now Mr. DeVito IS my 2nd Favorite...

  • @strozombie.01
    @strozombie.01 Год назад

    Joker in Tim Burton's Batman was very comic book accurate.

    • @jarodgianoni8846
      @jarodgianoni8846 Год назад

      Eh not really he killed batman's parents, was way older then him, had a full backstory and was active for a week then died

  • @JakkiHanlon-i2t
    @JakkiHanlon-i2t 9 месяцев назад

    Xmas eve every year

  • @ColonelSternlove
    @ColonelSternlove Год назад

    Love the film (prefer the original). But penguins raising penguin, underground circus crime that suddenly appears, has a duck mobile, a Batmobile that has scenario weapons, a bat signal pointing at a house, a woman with 9 lives (metaphorically)… but - I still love it. It’s ridiculous, comic book like in every way.

  • @RabbiSteve
    @RabbiSteve Год назад

    Thank you, Vee. I’m with you: BR is my favorite live action Batman movie. By a mile.

  • @Dr_1212
    @Dr_1212 Год назад +2

    Love that movie but no
    Ur Batman Dedication is cool 🦇 👍

  • @Juan_rivera
    @Juan_rivera Год назад +2

    Idk why do many hated it, idk if it's best, but it's good

  • @twig8523
    @twig8523 Год назад

    Throw Mama From The Train shoutout! 😂

  • @luisrizo8813
    @luisrizo8813 Год назад

    Get those Neca figures.

  • @samedwards4633
    @samedwards4633 Год назад

    If you suspend disbelief you could say Selina kyle snapped mentally when she fell out of that window, I know in reality no one would survive that fall I just hate the radioactive cat origin they gave her.

  • @herbiestarford
    @herbiestarford Год назад

    What is the ending to this video

  • @kamranrais8671
    @kamranrais8671 Год назад

    You can tell this was made before the batman and posted/reposted

  • @LiterallyBatman1610
    @LiterallyBatman1610 Год назад

    I love returns probably my 3rd favourite batman movie first is the batman and second the dark knight also everybody has their own opinion that deserves to be respected you are allowed to argue about this but bullying someone over fiction is wrong

  • @Homeschoolsw6
    @Homeschoolsw6 Год назад

    If the penguin was true to the comic book villain instead of a wretched flipper baby....you'd be right.

  • @theycallmerisky619
    @theycallmerisky619 Год назад

    The brilliance of this film is its lack of character development. Batman is a character whose stuck reliving the tragedy that created him. So it kinda makes sense that theres no real development in this story. Which also creates this episodic feel. Like this film is just one episode in a long series of never made batman films.

  • @cjewe1z
    @cjewe1z Год назад +1

    Yes. People who know film know that 'Batman Returns' is the best Batman film.

  • @Harri927
    @Harri927 Год назад

    My favorite Batman movie of all time.

  • @LarryHazard
    @LarryHazard 6 месяцев назад

    The Batman is still the best adaptation and the Nolan movies did a good job but this is the one that holds up best. Didn't really get it as a teenager except for the aesthetics but watching it again it's awesome. The first one has some good elements but it's too long and not nearly as good. Max Schrek is definitely the best villain from any Batman movie

  • @ned5231
    @ned5231 Год назад

    The Halle Berry catwoman movie is fantastic, aslong as you leave the sound off

  • @enminghee2926
    @enminghee2926 5 месяцев назад

    It's actually my second favorite Batfilm, after The Batman, because it's the only Batfilm made for people who don't like superheroes.

  • @VishantiTheGAWD
    @VishantiTheGAWD Год назад

    Interesting you didnt mention The Batman in this video