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Bookmark this pageBatman Returns (1992)
Director: Tim Burton
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Bigger, louder, more relentlessly action-packed than its predecessor, Batman Returns batters its audience into submission. The main problems are both the lack of story and the wealth of superfluous detail in the dialogue that is sometimes barely intelligible. Precisely what the villains - Catwoman (Pfeiffer), the Penguin (DeVito) and property developer Max Shreck (Walken) - are up to, and why, is often unclear, save that they are all on some sort of power trip. Catwoman's schizophrenia, never properly explored, seems a scriptwriter's cop-out; the Penguin is merely vengeful for being consigned to the sewers at birth; and Shreck is simply a corrupt, murderous tycoon posing as Gotham's leading philanthropist. Even the epically conceived and impressively executed set pieces become wearisome after a while. If you're satisfied with stars in funny costumes playing shallow characters involved in an obscure battle to the death, fine; but if huge sets, special effects and a blaring score are not enough, it's a long haul.Author: GA
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- Matthew Field said...
- Posted on Aug 29 2008 08:20 Dark and Macabre, This is Tim Burtons definitive vision of the Dark Knight. A little shallow still on Batman's character side, but otherwise brilliant.
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Cast & crew
Director: Tim Burton
Producer: Denise DiNovi, Tim Burton
Cast: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough, Michael Murphy, Cristi Conaway, Andrew Bryniarski, Pat Hingle, Vincent Schiavelli full cast
Genre(s): Fantasy
Duration: 127 mins
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