My second favorite Tim Burton Batflick.

Rating: 7/10 (8 December 2018)

When Batman first came out nearly 30 years ago, it overcame bad pre marketing buzz and became a must see event film that broke the record set by Superman nearly 11 years before and became the biggest movie of that year in North America (Last Crusade was even bigger overseas) and spawned hot merchandise, including a killer soundtrack by Prince as well as the classic score by Danny Elfman, not to mention a VHS which my dad rented from a local Washington, DC video store where my cousins still live and which was the first pg-13 movie i saw in any format. It was quite dark. Then came Batman Returns, which was even darker than the last one. During this movie's theatrical run, McDonald's sold toys from the movie, although the film was marketed towards the teenage set. It was quite controversial at the time, which is why Batman Returns failed to outgross Batman yet broke the opening weekend record set by its predecessor, a record which would be broken by Jurassic Park as well as Batman Forever, with many other movies soon to follow, the last being Infinity War this year. As for the movie, it's a great movie to watch during the Christmas holidays, as it's set during christmas in Gotham City, where the Penguin and Catwoman team up to try to defeat Batman from saving the day!!! Here's a fun fact...this was the first film to get a wide release in Dolby Digital 5.1, but not the first mixed in it...that honor goes to Star Trek VI, which was given a test run during pre screenings (a 70mm 5.1 mix was used instead for select markets and was used for the dvd release). This is also the last good batman movie, as Forever and Batman and Robin are more kiddie like.