Fresh
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.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune
Batman Returns
The Bat. The Cat. The Penguin.
1992 · 2h 6m · PG-13
Action, Fantasy
Directed by
Tim Burton
Overview
The monstrous Penguin, who dwells in the sewers beneath Gotham, joins up with corrupt mayoral candidate Max Shreck to topple the Batman once and for all. But when Shreck's timid assistant Selina Kyle finds out, and Shreck tries to kill her, she's transformed into the sexy Catwoman. She teams up with the Penguin and Shreck to destroy Batman, but sparks fly unexpectedly when she confronts the caped crusader.
Director and cast
- Tim Burton Director
- Michael Keaton as Batman/Bruce Wayne
- Danny DeVito as Penguin/Oswald Cobblepot
- Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman/Selina Kyle
- Christopher Walken as Max Shreck
- Michael Gough as Alfred
- Pat Hingle as Commissioner James Gordon
- Paul Reubens Cast
- Michael Murphy Cast
- Vincent Schiavelli Cast
- Diane Salinger Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
82%
Tomatometer
Rotten
[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.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
As Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands reminded us, Burton always has been more absorbed by what his audience sees than by what his movies say.
Desmond Ryan, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh
Batman Returns is the rarest of Hollywood beasts -- a sequel that's better than the original
Jay Carr, Boston Globe
Fresh
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.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
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