beautiful in the strangest way

Rating: Null/10 (17 November 2004)

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This film is in my opinion the best comic book adap and a very good (often underrated) film, it captures not only the darkness of the comic but it is one of the most fun and at times beautiful films. The brilliant twirling zoom over the frozen amusement park into the penguins lair and the awesome design of gotham city (also used to amazing effect in the first one)are just some of the magnificent motifs that never cease to amaze me.
The characters too are brilliant and Burton manages to create a very interesting villain, albeit a very misunderstood one, in the penguin and manages to almost make you cry at his death. Catwoman is brought to life amazingly by Michelle pfiefer delivering the great line "life's a bitch now so am I" and Keaton is still great as the caped crusader himself. And even though we always think of Catwoman and The Penguin as the 'bad guys' the only real villain is Christopher Walkens Max Shreck.
And Although the action sequences aren't great this is still a great film and one of tim burtons best (although i've yet to see Ed Wood).I think this film is also great because it is so dark and managed to expand so well from the first film, it is just such a shame that all this work has been undone by the 3rd and 4th films.