He is Batman you idiot......

Rating: 8/10 (4 May 2014)

The Penguin is intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Crooked businessman Max Schreck is co-erced into helping him become Mayor of Gotham and they both attempt to expose Batman in a different light.
Selina Kyle, Max's secretary, is thrown from the top of a building and is transformed into Catwoman - a mysterious figure who has the same personality disorder as Batman.
Batman must attempt to clear his name, all the time deciding just what must be done with the Catwoman.......
Much more darker in tone than the previous movie, BR is a lot more Art Deco and it almost appears to be set in the thirties, rather than after the first film. Keaton again is wonderful as the troubled hero, and although we never go back to his parents murder, the autos desolation in Wayne manor is still evident.
The villains here are good, but if they were to be in the film singularly, rather than together, it would be a pretty anaemic affair. Devito is great as The Penguin, but he's too pantomime at times. Pfeiffer obviously steals every scene she's in with Keaton and Devito, nut again, she's way too over the top at times.
But the film belongs to Walken, as the meglomaniac Schreck. He hams it up so much, The Sheriff Of Nottingham would be proud.
Like all of the nineties Batman movies, plot plays second to spectacle, so we are treated to some really good set pieces, beautifully choreographed and filmed.
Its pure Burton from beginning to end, and there wasn't a better Batman movie until Ledger became 'stranger'....