Bigger, better and more sophisticated than the first outing.
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11/27/07
Batman Returns (1992)
77 %
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.
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... [More]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Danny DeVito, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough
Director: Tim Burton
Reviews
Top Critic
Bigger, louder, more relentlessly action-packed than its predecessor, Batman Returns batters its audience into submission.
01/26/06
Top Critic
Burton continues to capture the essence of the Batman legend and more importantly his audiences imagination.
01/16/02
Top Critic
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.
07/21/08
More of the same, but nowhere near as good (funny, disturbing, obsessive) as the uneven original, revealing arrested development on every level.
04/16/07
The fights and chases are incoherent and over-the-top, with the result being confusion rather than suspense.
04/16/07
Top Critic
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.
04/16/07
Top Critic
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.
04/20/06
About the only thing it had going for it was Pfeiffer in a catsuit, stiletto heels, with a whip. Wowsers.
10/07/05
The movie in which Tim Burton mostly fixes what he got wrong ... Unfortunately, he also screws up the stuff he got right.
06/27/05
Burton['s] staging is expert, and his character conceptions are distinctive and gratifying.
01/17/05
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