My favorite Bat-film before TDK!

Rating: 9/10 (30 November 2008)

If we want to talk darkness, sadness, and awesome characterization, Batman Returns is a film any bat-fan should watch. In my opinion, this is probably the most underrated and ignored bat-film to date - perhaps being surrounded by the original Batman (which, while a worthy film, doesn't truly give us the dark angle), and the two sequels which were a circus act.
'Returns also has the best music I've heard in a bat-film yet (yes, even above TDK's). The only reason it gets a 9/10 instead of a 10/10 is the far-stretched Penguin story, and a lack of action awesomeness I wanted from a fictional film. I wanted gadgets, jumps, leaps, martial arts, etc. This film raises expectations with some sequences, and the action just stops abruptly with an anti-climax.