Batman Returns
Tags: good versus evil, insanity, revenge

Plot synopsis:
On a snowy Christmas night, Tucker and Esther Cobblepot throw their deformed infant child Oswald into Gotham River, fearing he would become a menace to society after attacking their pet cat. His basket floats to an abandoned zoo and is found by a flock of penguins who raise him as one of their own.
33 years later, during the lighting of Gotham City's Christmas tree, a villainous gang of carnival performers stage a riot. While billionaire Bruce Wayne, as Batman, subdues the criminals, corrupt businessman Max Shreck falls through a trapdoor and is brought to the underground lair of Cobblepot himself, who is now the nefarious kingpin known as The Penguin. A former sideshow freak, Cobblepot explains his desire to become a respected citizen of Gotham and blackmails Shreck into helping him.
Meanwhile, Shreck's secretary, Selina Kyle, inadvertently discovers her boss's plan to illegally monopolize Gotham's supply of electricity. To protect his secrets, Shreck pushes her out of his office window. Falling through several canopies, Kyle miraculously survives but lies unconscious in an alley. A group of cats swarm around her and she suddenly regains consciousness. Traumatized, Kyle develops dissociative identity disorder and, after having a mental breakdown and trashing her apartment, she fashions a black vinyl costume and whip, becoming the formidable Catwoman.
Shreck arranges for one of Cobblepot's men to kidnap the Mayor's infant son, allowing Cobblepot to "rescue" him. As a reward, Cobblepot is given access to the Gotham City Archives, where he learns his real name, and that he is the last surviving member of his family. Meanwhile, the Mayor, persuaded by Wayne, refuses to give Shreck a construction permit for his power plant. Cobblepot orders his gang to attack downtown Gotham, ruining the Mayor's reputation and giving Shreck the opportunity to propose Cobblepot as a replacement. Batman confronts Cobblepot, but Catwoman appears while firebombing Shreck's department store, and Cobblepot escapes. After a fight in which Batman knocks her off a building, Catwoman survives by landing in a truck full of kitty litter.
While Kyle enters a romantic relationship with Wayne, as Catwoman, she agrees to help Cobblepot with a plan to ruin Batman's reputation by framing him for the abduction of Gotham's "Ice Princess" beauty queen. While traversing the rooftops to find the Ice Princess, Penguin's goons disassemble the Batmobile and plant a device into the car that will allow Penguin to control it. Distracted by Catwoman, Batman is unable to stop Cobblepot from attacking the Princess using a swarm of captive bats. She falls to her death before Batman tries to save her, making everyone believe that Batman pushed her. When Catwoman rejects Cobblepot's amorous advances, he responds by attacking her with his motorized helicopter umbrella. As the umbrella takes her up into the sky, Catwoman narrowly cheats death again as she falls into a rooftop greenhouse. Fleeing from the police, Batman realizes that Cobblepot is remotely controlling the Batmobile, taking it on a rampage through Gotham. Batman disables the control device, but not before recording the Penguin's mocking insults about how gullible the people of Gotham are.
At a press conference for Cobblepot organized by Shreck, Batman broadcasts the recording, destroying Cobblepot's public image. Enraged, Cobblepot flees to the sewers and orders his gang to kidnap and drown all of the first born sons of Gotham's citizens. At a masquerade ball hosted by Shreck, Wayne and Kyle deduce each other's secret identities. Cobblepot suddenly invades the party, revealing his intention to drown the kidnapped children, including Shreck's son Chip, in sewage water, prompting Shreck to offer himself instead. Batman defeats the kidnappers, prompting Cobblepot to unleash an army of penguin soldiers to destroy Gotham with missiles. Piloting the Batboat through the sewers, Batman redirects the penguins to instead fire on Cobblepot's hideout. Cobblepot attacks Batman in a rage, but ends up falling through the ceiling of his lair and into the toxic water.
Catwoman ambushes Shreck in a vengeful attempt to kill him, but Batman stops her and unmasks himself, as does Catwoman when she rejects Wayne's attempts to reason with her. Shreck then shoots Wayne before shooting Kyle multiple times until he runs out of bullets, leaving her severely injured, but not mortally wounded. Putting a taser to his lips, Kyle kisses Shreck while grabbing hold of an exposed power cable, causing a fiery explosion that kills Shreck. Wayne, who survived, uncovers Shreck's corpse while digging through the rubble in an attempt to find Kyle. Cobblepot, mortally wounded from his fall, then arises and tries one last time to kill Wayne with his umbrella, but fails and succumbs to his injuries. Subsequently, his penguin family carry out a makeshift funeral that culminates with them pushing his corpse into the water.
Afterwards, as Alfred drives Wayne home, Wayne spots a shadow outside resembling Catwoman. He follows it and instead finds a stray black cat deciding to take it home. As he leaves, the Bat-Signal lights up in the night sky as Catwoman watches from afar.

Review: Great Time Killer......
This action/beat-em-up Snes game is excellent as a time killer, if any of you out there still have a Super Nintendo, and a store that rents the games, look for it and pick up a copy.It's the best beat-em-up on Snes other than Double Dragon, and Final Fight..
a very good game based upon the movie.
Batman returns is a very awesome game for the super Nintendo.
Based upon the motion hit movie of the same title, you play as the ultimate dark knight batman.The game is basically a "left to right" walking/fighting game similar to "final fight"/"streets of rage"/"golden axe" etc.
You have your power ups and unlimited supply of bad guys to get through on each level as well as boss to take on at the end of the levels.The controls are very easy and will be good for the non hardcore gamer, the game itself has wonderful background scenery, some being usable for you to throw the enemy into and partially interact with, the graphics are very good as well as the music.Any game with batman/catwoman and the penguin in it cannot be bad.If u see it..buy it..
Great.
Batman Returns the game.
Is one of the best games based off a movie to date.
Great graphics for a SNES game.
It can get hard,but it's still a great time-killer.
Full of surprises.
This game is one of the best.
I can't get enough of SNES.
They will always be the best!.
Great fun game based on the movie!.
Movie based games get a bad rap but there are some that are really awesome and this is one of them.
I personally don't mind even a "bad" movie based title, its just fun to be able to play as one of your favorite superheroes and kick lots of bad guy arse.
but this is actually one of the exceptions where the game is very well done, we're talking a 20 year old game here!
Batman Returns is one of my favorite comic book films, in fact its in my top 3, and that's saying something since we are now living in a time where comic book movies are a dime a dozen, similar to how horror/slasher movies were in the 80's.
however the originals are still the best IMO.
however we are here to talk about the video game.Its pretty much your standard side scroller kick punch type of game, but its got some gorgeous scenery and really captures the style elements of the film, from the Christmas setting, Shrecks store signs everywhere, and even the very eerie opening of the movie is replicated here with snow falling, the music is ripped straight from Danny elf mans fantastic score, only "digitized" for the game.
the levels definitely get an A+ design wise because it truly captures the look and feel of the movie, its as if the movie were shrunk down into a video game.
the cut scenes are also pretty fantastic, with cutouts of the movie characters put into the game to tell the story the "old fashioned" way where you had to read it.
ah, I miss these kind of games, you had to use your head and read a bit.
character models are straight out of the movie, from Batman's new suit to the clowns and the skeleton motorcycle guys, its very faithful to the movie and is easily one of the best looking movie based games out there.
the gameplay is fun and easy to get hooked, punching and kicking at rapid speed.
cat woman and penguin are naturally tough to beat but the game looks and plays so great, it keeps you wanting to come back for more.overall this I a must if your a batman fan, a fan of the film, or just like well done superhero beatemup games.
I'm a fan of all 3.
I actually grew up with the sega genesis version, which was actually pretty good, but graphics wise the SNES version blows the sega version out of the water.
This was a multi platform game, so there were many wholly different versions of the game, the Sega CD Batman Returns game was more of a driving game, the Gensis version was more of a normal adventure game, and the SNES was a great side scroller beat'em up game.
all good in there own way, but SNES versions tops them all.
still great after all these years which is amazing considering the giant leap in graphics detail..
Batman Returns!.
Batman Returns is one of the one of the coolest video games!
The characters, the action, and the sure thrill of excitement makes this game a fun non-stop playing time!
Below is a brief look how I think the game is!
Game Play: The game play is very good.
There is really basic controls here and is easy to perform.
Novice gamers should have a good time here!
Graphics: The graphics are wonderful especially for the Super Nintendo The backgrounds are really beautiful!
Difficulty: The game is easy but as it goes on you find out that it will become more difficult!
Music: The music is great!
Just fantastic catchy tunes through out the game!
In My opinion its some of the best music ever in a video game!
Sound: The sound is great.
Nuff said!
Overall: I have always loved Batman Returns!
If you like excellent fighting and adventure games, and more then I strongly recommend you play this game!
To purchase this video game check out Amazon.com!