Batman Returns
Business tycoon Max Shreck teams up with the Penguin to take over Gotham City. But it's not all, the city faces another monstrous criminal menace: slinky, mysterious Catwoman. The villains team up to frame the caped crusader. Can Batman battle two formidable foes at once?
25 March 1953, Chicago, Illinois, USA
14 August 1964, Lubbock, Texas, USA
1956, Orinda, California, USA
23 March 1950, Glendale, California, USA
19 July 1924, Miami, Florida, USA
March 6, 1961 in Mount Holly, New Jersey, USA
8 August 1955, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 April 1958, Santa Ana, California, USA
July 31, 2016
...embraces the weirdness of the saga without a hint of hesitation.
December 27, 2013
Among the 1990s' most fruitful marriages of high-brow auteurist style and pulp source material. A Burtonesque layer cake: at bottom, his take on German Expressionism; then the Gotham grotesquerie; topping it all off is a fissuring, fracturing fairytale.
April 10, 2013
As Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands reminded us, Burton always has been more absorbed by what his audience sees than by what his movies say.
December 03, 2013
Even though fans of the 1960s TV show may reject its brooding atmosphere, this is still impressive stuff.
April 10, 2013
Burton, once an animator at Disney, understands that to go deeper, you must fly higher, to liberation from plot into poetry. Here he's done it. This Batman soars.
December 14, 2014
[Burton's] dark, melancholy vision is undeniably something to see, but it is a claustrophobic conception, not an expansive one, oppressive rather than exhilarating, and it strangles almost all the enjoyment out of this movie without half trying.
April 10, 2013
As in the first movie, Burton gives the material a luxurious masked-ball quality and a sly contemporary wit without violating the myth's low, cheesy comic-book origins.
April 10, 2013
Batman Returns is the rarest of Hollywood beasts -- a sequel that's better than the original
December 14, 2014
Director Tim Burton, apparently given a free hand to create a follow-up to the hugely successful 1989 Batman, marshals all his forces to create an elaborately melancholy ode to alienation.
September 30, 2013
If Christopher Nolan never decided to direct a Batman movie, 'Batman Returns' would easily reign as the best film starring the Caped Crusader.
December 14, 2014
There are flashes of commercially oriented action and humor, but the overall feeling is one of a languid depression sprung straight from the heart of its author.
December 03, 2013
Batman Returns, though, is full of grim, Dostoyevskian undertones, not to mention a multitude of bloody, violent scenes.
