Why this film is perfect

Rating: 10/10 (27 January 2000)

Batman Returns. Summed up in simple terms as one of the greatest films of all time. Why? For me it sums up all the good things about the comic book, keeps true to the origins (mostly), and adds extras that only serve to excite us further. The bat-gadgets that so fascinated us in the first movie are back, better than ever, and the villians are just supurb.
Michaels Keaton and Gough are back, as are Pat Hingle as Gordon, and whoever played the mayor. It is important to keep these key players the same, because while not actually relying on the first movie, this can say to the viewer 'Remember when this happened?', and we can identify with them more.
Thats where the next two films failed, because the images were so different than we were used to, we were watching a completely different series of characters which no one could identify with.
Penguin and Catwoman were played excellently by DiVito and Pfeiffer (very sexy), and Walken was good as the evil (if rather confused) Max Schrek. The batmobile was great again, and the costumes were still believeable, little did we know that this would be the last time we would see them as they were intended. A great foray into fantasy. Neil