batman returns: broken down

Rating: 8/10 (14 June 2012)

By broken down I mean simplified, anyway this was an interesting film when I watched after so many years. When I first watched it, I was about 10 years old, I got it for Christmas on DVD along with the first, and next two films. I was very fond of the movie at the time, I liked the fell of it, the sort of 'Burtonish' feeling you get from most of his movies. Watching it now, I had some problems with the villains in this movie, one being that the penguin is a deformed freak, and Catwoman being some sort of mystical being. I know from the original comic that there origins are much different, but I'm not that big of a stickler so I let it go. The same could be said for the Friday the 13th remake, if you don't know that the villain was suppose to be someone else, and you just took them for who they are, the film feels better. There have been complaints about the film being too dark, or not dark at all. That is where the 'Burtonish' feeling comes in, like the nightmare before Christmas, it has a creepy yet goofy feeling, and the same is for Batman returns.
It was this film that made me start watching the other batman films, I could never find the time to watch the original 1989 version, but I watched the others and was disappointed. At of all of the batman films (except the Nolan films) this one is my favorite.