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Batman Returns (1992)

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Reviews Counted: 44 Fresh: 34  Rotten:10 Average Rating: 6.5/10
 
Consensus: Director Tim Burton's dark, brooding atmosphere, Michael Keaton's work as the tormented hero, and the flawless casting of Danny DeVito as The Penguin and Christopher Walken as, well, Christopher Walken make the sequel better than the first.
 

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Runtime: 2 hrs 6 mins

Synopsis: In director Tim Burton's sequel to his successful BATMAN (1989), the Caped Crusador (Michael Keaton) is pitted against the demented, ravenous Penguin (Danny DeVito), a pitiful, orphaned psychopathic freak who once went on a baby-killing spree, and a "power" hungry capitalist villain Max... In director Tim Burton's sequel to his successful BATMAN (1989), the Caped Crusador (Michael Keaton) is pitted against the demented, ravenous Penguin (Danny DeVito), a pitiful, orphaned psychopathic freak who once went on a baby-killing spree, and a "power" hungry capitalist villain Max Shreck (Christopher Walken). As the two criminals plot to gain domination over Gotham City, BATMAN must plot to stop them. In the highly stylized BATMAN RETURNS--complete with dark, Gothic architecture and moody lighting--Batman (and his alter-ego Bruce Wayne) is thrown a third enemy, a terrible distraction: Cat Woman (fearlessly and fabulously played by Michelle Pfeiffer). She is the slinky, sharp-clawed alter-ego of Shreck's secretary Selina. Batman must overcome his own dark past, and his present love entanglements, to rid Gotham of it's evil enemies, this time with even more intricately designed sets and tongue-in-cheek humor, making BATMAN RETURNS an action-packed, but darkly fun adventure. [More]

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Starring: Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Danny DeVito, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough

Director: Tim Burton

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Mar 5, 2008

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4/5

Bigger, better and more sophisticated than the first outing.

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11/27/07
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Bigger, louder, more relentlessly action-packed than its predecessor, Batman Returns batters its audience into submission.

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01/26/06
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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4/5

Atmospheric and utterly barmy.

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06/12/04
Rich Cline
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4/5

Burton continues to capture the essence of the Batman legend and more importantly his audiences imagination.

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01/16/02
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2/5

O design de produção é inspirado e Keaton busca conferir peso dramático ao herói, mas o roteiro é pedestre e Pingüim jamais se torna um vilão interessante. Por outro lado, a sensualidade de Pfeiffer quase redime o filme. Quase.

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07/21/08
Pablo Villaca
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3/5

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09/16/07
Cole Smithey
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More of the same, but nowhere near as good (funny, disturbing, obsessive) as the uneven original, revealing arrested development on every level.

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04/16/07
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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2.5/4

The fights and chases are incoherent and over-the-top, with the result being confusion rather than suspense.

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04/16/07
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Where Burton's ideas end and those of his collaborators begin is impossible to know, but result is a seamless, utterly consistent universe full of nasty notions about societal deterioration, greed and other base impulses.

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04/16/07
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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4/5

This is less of a sequel than reworking of the first film's themes, with greater attention paid to the villains (all colorful and more intriguing than the hero) and more visually inventive set pieces, albeit contained in a less coherent work.

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04/20/06
Emanuel Levy
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A bizarre mixture of poetic brilliance and clumsy ineptitude.

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10/20/05
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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3/5

About the only thing it had going for it was Pfeiffer in a catsuit, stiletto heels, with a whip. Wowsers.

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10/07/05
Widgett Walls
Needcoffee.com
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07/04/05
Emanuel Levy
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The movie in which Tim Burton mostly fixes what he got wrong ... Unfortunately, he also screws up the stuff he got right.

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06/27/05
Luke Y. Thompson
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04/12/05
Mark Palermo
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02/25/05
Nell Minow
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3.5/4

Burton['s] staging is expert, and his character conceptions are distinctive and gratifying.

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01/17/05
Peter Canavese
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01/14/05
Robin Clifford
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4/5

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11/21/04
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals
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3/5

the last good batman movie thanks to MP

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03/06/04
Karina Montgomery
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