Burton was in a dark place when he made this film!

Rating: Null/10 (24 June 2002)

Michael Keaton returns as the caped-crusader in this second instalment from master-gothic director, Tim Burton. Reviving the partnership he had with musical-maestro, Danny Elfman, in the first film and also in 'Beetlejuice' and 'Edward Scissorhands'.
Keaton gives another great turn as the Dark Knight, sadly his last, this time with a new love-interest in the form of Selina Scott/Catwoman. Michelle Pfeiffer plays the feline femme fatale, whose cat-suit provided a whole generation of young men with deep psychological problems.

Perhaps knowing that this would be his last Batman-film, Burton spares no expense and also brings us the wonderfully grotesque Danny DeVito as Batman's new arch-nemesis, The Penguin, and the gravel-voiced Christopher Walken as the scheming businessman, Max Schrek.
I remember when I first saw this film I was a little disappointed with it. Although I would never have admitted it at the time, I was probably a little young to watch this film at the time. Burton was clearly in a dark place when he made it and I found many of the scenes quite disturbing - especially the scene where DeVito messily eats a raw fish (with rather too much gusto for my liking) and the sight of dark, thick blood pumping out of the nose of the poor luckless moron The Penguin had just bitten was enough to make me get up and leave the room.
Nevertheless, this film is very good and most of the cast give strong performances. However, it is much moodier than the first film and I advise parents to adhere to the film's classification when it comes to showing it to children.
6/10