Review – Batman Returns

This first Batman sequel still has a lot of the Tim Burton touches (and what is it with Burton and Christmas?), but it’s just not quite up to the original. The fault doesn’t lie with Danny DeVito (the Penguin) and Michelle Pfeiffer (Catwoman); they’re both good examples of the excellent villain casting throughout the Batman movies. But there are just a lot of other things that don’t work as well. For example, the Penguin’s avian sidekicks are just too cute and harmless-looking to be really menacing. The sexual tension between Pfeiffer and Michael Keaton’s Batman somehow doesn’t quite work either. Not a bad movie, just not as radical as the first one. Mildly amusing