Batman returns, should we care? Yes!

Rating: 8/10 (27 September 2009)

More free to apply his personal vision when compared to the first Batman, Tim Burton turns the Batman mythos to a feverish stylized Gothic fairy-tale, on whose core lies poisonous cynicism and pessimism.
Gotham City rots. It's business elite sinks in a ruthless corruption and manipulates the political system at will. It's citizens are scared and weak-minded pawns. Catwoman is basically a repressed and suppressed suburban housewife/ working-woman. Batman is a lone and slightly sad, but heroic, figure. The Penguin is ultimately the most tragic figure of all - a direct result of society's anthropophagy.
Tim Burton sinks himself in this Gotham abyss, turning it to an almost attractive dÎ¹cor, whose heroes let themselves pinch and scrape.