Batman Returns

Director: Tim Burton

1996 / 126min / 35mm

Burton and star Michael Keaton’s first Caped Crusader film was a pop culture phenomenon; their second was no slouch at the box office itself, but an altogether spicier dish to serve to unsuspecting multiplex audiences: an unremittingly grim, gloomily gothic blockbuster featuring Danny DeVito as a grotesque Penguin, commanding a fleet of heavily armed flightless seabirds to raze Gotham City; a deliciously plummy Christopher Walken playing a corrupt industrialist who happens to share his name with the lead of F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu; and an ideal foil/love interest for Batman/Bruce Wayne in the form of Michelle Pfeiffer’s slinkily SM-suited Catwoman, putting her stamp on the role for time immemorial.

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