My favorite of the franchise.

Rating: 7/10 (13 January 2001)

This wasn't a great movie. In general, Tim Burton's films are style over substance, but man what style! The good about this movie is the Batman/Catwoman relationship. It was far more interesting than the romantic dynamic of the previous film, although still not what I'd consider a classic love story. Christopher Walken is fabulous, as always. Danny DeVito does a good job playing the character of the Penguin as written, but I did not enjoy this story's version of that character. The bad about this movie is that it spends more time focusing on the villains than on the title character. This seems to imply that the producer's of the film don't believe that Batman can carry a movie on his own. Nonsense! After all, in my opinion Batman is one of the four greatest comic characters ever created (the others being Superman, Spider-Man, and Wolverine from X-Men). This movie is also seriously too dark, violent, and sexual for kids. It was rated "PG-13", but I'm sure was really close to an "R".