BATMAN RETURNS Concept Art Of Oswald Cobblepot & His Missile-Clad Penguins

2nd?

This movie was terrible, in my opinion. The 1989 original was awesome but all three sequels gradually got worse and worse until the point where we got Batman And Robin (1997). This is just what I think, though.

The artist draws a nice penguin.

he scared the crap outta me when I was young

best penguin & catwoman ever!

Great movie

I remember being around 20-21 when the movie came out and it seemed like all the department stores and malls pushed EVERY conceivable thing they could for merchandise for this movie.
It was sooooooo oversaturated even versus modern day society doing it for Disney/Marvel stuff.
The movie was "ok".
I didn't love it. Didn't hate it.

i havent seen batman returns in over 10 years. all i remember of the penguin, was how hard he hit the ground when he died, it was awesome

@darkknight2149 Batman Returns was very bad. I didn't enjoy a single moment of it. But CBMs were so rare then if you liked comics or superheroes you bascically had to watch it.

In my opinion we've yet to get the all-encompassing Batman movie. It just seems like each live action version of the character comes with a caveat. The 89 flick has the atmosphere but Batman doesn't spend a lot of time actually doing anything (and I say that with the 89 flick being one of my favorites) and with a lousy origin story for the Joker (loved Nicholson in the role, though). Batman Returns featured no character fidelity to the comics at all. Batman Forever actually got closest of any of the movies to nailing the comic book aesthetic but the neon, nipples, and terrible handling of Two-Face, Riddler, and Robin are unforgivable. Batman and Robin speaks for itself. Batman Begins gets so very close to being an all-encompassing Batflick...but The Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises, as much as I love those movies, are skew towards realism too much. It bothered me that at no point is Selina Kyle referred to as Catwoman. They arrive at the Two-Face name through a thrown in line about Harvey being considered two-faced. It's like the world of Begins and the world of The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises are completely different, that the characters were plucked from Begins and dropped off in Chicago. The Arkham Games are the closest to an all-encompassing Batman experience and I'd love to see that approach taken in live action.

Other than Keaton as Batman this movie was awesome. No one can touch Devito's performance as Penguin. The best Catwoman as well.

I still would have loved to see what Tim had planned for his third Batman film. If I remember correctly the reason he didn't make a third movie was because of lots of parents that were mad that the Penguin frightened their kids. I so would have loved to see what kind of performance Billy dee Williams would have done with Two-Face for the third film.

Tim Burton I personally believe has given us the most comic accurate version of Batman so far. Gotham totally feels like it was a gothic city.

I think Detroit will work for Gotham but I really wish they could have shot some of Gotham in different parts of Europe to truly get that gothic feeling. But luckily if they shoot the film in downtown Detroit there is still gothic architecture. Most of the buildings have their windows blown out. But that could really make Gotham interesting. Because driving down town in Detroit you can find some really nice buildings then drive down another alley and you remember why Detroit sucks.

I some day have to rewatch the old Batman films. To see if they still are as great as I remember them or not. I know Batman & Robin sucks but that movie gave a closer comic version of Bane then the Dark Knight Rises did. So I can find one gold nugget out of a pile of crap.

I just hope Zack can finally give us comic book fans the Batman from the comics plus his universe too.

@mcott - Agreed 100%. Devito's Penguin is perfect for Burton's vision of Batman.

Wow. Usually cb and cbm fans reach a common consensus...with a few outliers. Very few times there is there a split decision on a movie (Man of Steel is one of those rare times). I did not expect Batman Returns to be another of those movies.

@BlackIceJoe
I would have preferred Tim Burton's Batman 3 over Batman Forever, a LOT. I like Tim Burton and am a huge fan of the original, but Returns just wasn't one of his good ones. There are a lot of reasons I didn't like BR. But, let's look on the bright side: had Burton have done this film we would have never have gotten Batman Begins.

Batman Returns isn't a Batman movie. It's a piece of shit. So are the three in that universe and Nolan's films sucked. They do not portray Batman accurately, and until there is a Batman portrayed accurately in cinema I will stick with the cartoons, comics and fan-made films that actually contain "Batman."

Amazing masterpiece movie!