One Of My Favourite Batman Movies!

Rating: 10/10 (23 March 2013)

Having just seen "The Dark Knight Rises", I have to say that "Batman Returns" is superior in several ways:

Anne Hathaway's catwoman (or whatever she was supposed to be in TDKR), simply cannot compare to Michelle Pfeiffer's. The former is just one-dimensional, lame and unconvincing.

"Batman Returns" manages to capture the essence of Gotham City -- the atmosphere is magnificently portrayed (dreary, dark, depressing), which is more than I can say for TDKR, which tries very hard, but fails.

I did kind of enjoy Bane in TDKR, but his character was severely under-developed and there was not much of a story behind the whole residing-in-the-sewers-for-years stuff. The Penguin in "Batman Returns" is well explained, the story revolves around the sewers, and a lot of the action takes places there.

The costumes / the makeup alone are reason enough to see "Batman Returns" -- amazingly good! In TDKR, there's ABSOLUTELY nothing -- everyone (including Batman) look like they're wearing cheaply-made, lame Halloween costumes from one of those 1$ stores.

The lead characters are well-developed and colourful -- even the supporting/minor characters. In TDKR, they are one-dimensional, bland, mostly unlikeable, and you just don't care for them much.

I liked Christian Bale's Batman a bit better than Keaton's, though. The worst one, without a doubt, was Clooney's.