Not as good as you remember...

Rating: 7/10 (21 February 2016)

Re watching Batman Returns, I realized just how weird this film is and how mixed my feelings are towards it. We all said at the time this was the dark one, the one that made them turn a corner and change things to be more 'kid friendly' in the following films. And we all know how well THAT turned out, don't we?
I remember loving it as a kid (Why did my parents allow me to watch this film filled with sexual innuendos and violent death scenes?) But now, well, it's not a bad film, I refuse to dismiss something that so many people put a lot of effort into, and there are things I love about it. I have always said, and I still maintain that Michael Keaton is the best cinematic Bruce Wayne, but it's a shame that he's barely in the film, just like Burton's first Batman film, the villains are given far more screen time. The plan of the villain, sorry, the back-up plan of the villain is ridiculous. Penguins in the sewers? Really? Michelle Pfeiffer is the highlight of the film, without her I wouldn't like anything really. Danny DeVito gives a great performance, but if they were trying to make his character sympathetic, they failed miserably. He just comes across as a grotesque, one-note monster. Still my favorite of Burton's Batman films, but considering how much I don't like the first film, that's not saying much.