This is truly Catwoman's movie--Penguin should have been removed from the script...

Rating: 8/10 (24 March 1999)

The first and only ambitious sequel to "Batman" falls short of the original because it is overburdened with characters. This fatal flaw only becomes more pronounced in subsequent sequels. The Penguin (played by Danny DeVito) and all of his cohorts should have been eliminated from the script. This movie is really about Catwoman, a riveting role performed by the ever-lovely Michelle Pfieffer. Like Michael Keaton's character in the first film, Pfieffer's character, a traumatized secretary who survives a murderous shove from a twelfth-story window, finds that her experience has brought out an unnerving and lunatic dark side. The chemistry is excellent between Pfieffer and her psychotic, corporate executive boss (played by Christopher Walken) and, at first, seems quite engaging between her and Keaton. Indeed, she is Batman's feminine side: his missing half. Unfortunately, the Batman-Catwoman relationship is not developed to the degree it should have been due to the distractions created by DeVito's character. Nevertheless, flawed as it may be, this is the one Batman sequel that is definitely worth seeing.