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A really great sequel to Batman (1989) story is really great so is acting and score by Danny Elfman. As dark as the first film it's both a summer blockbuster and a Christmas movie a dark one at that. Great performances by Michael Keaton Danny Deviot Michelle Pfeiffer Christopher Walken Michael Gough Pat Hingle and Michael Murphy. Action is also great as is special effects and makeup. Fun for superhero fans and fans of Batman and Tim Burton too. A really great film from the 90s.
This was one of the biggest films during my high school years. I watched it on cable, over and over and over. I hadn't watched it since the 90s and recently rewatched it. Some parts seem a smidge silly, the penguin army with helmets? The payoff never really comes with that. It's also Pfeiffer's show, and DeVito and everyone else takes up too much time compared to what Pfeiffer has to offer. DeVito doesn't hold back and Keaton is well, doing Keaton stuff and Walken is also Walkening it, but it is Pfeiffer and the production designers that elevate the material and we are all the better for it.
Helpful ReportMy son is under 10 and loves scary and action packed movies. He liked that it had two villains and one hero. The penguin bites someone's mouth, which was weird, and catwoman gets shot a couple of times, which was kind of disturbing.
This movie is dark. Really dark. Batman is admittedly more heroic than his previous 1989 outing, but this movie focuses more on the two villains of this movie: Catwoman and the Penguin. The Penguin is a grotesque person who spews sexual quips, and Catwoman is a slinky, sensual fighter who holds her own against the caped crusader. Most of the violence is the standard fisticuffs, but there is also a healthy amount of bloody and disturbing content present. Sensuality and coarse language also mars this film. If I were to give a reason for the PG-13 rating, I would say for dark, brooding violence; including bloody, disturbing content and for language and sexual material.
