![]() Keaton is like the everyman normal looking 40 year old gruff guy and he demands you take him seriously. other actors who have played batman seem too pretty boy or hand picked and thus don't feel real. he was a bit older, getting some greys, was this sort of gruff everyman but has this seriousness and "normal guy" look that makes you take him seriously as batman. but Michael Keaton has a unique screen presence that when he puts on the bat suit, he literally IS batman and lets face it, no one before or since has had the manly swagger that Michael Keaton had as batman. if it was anyone else playing batman, it wouldn't have worked. its the villains who are not together and have all these obvious mental problems, so much so that they actually make batman look normal. so naturally, in this one he seems more together and knows what hes doing. it seemed Keaton didn't have it all together in the last movie, he had a a lot of demons to fight with, but by the end you got the feeling he found his purpose in life, now that hes got a bat-signal and the law on his side. in fact, Keaton being the calm cool hero both as Bruce Wayne and batman, grounds the movie and keeps it together whereas the 2 villains are completely crazy and psychotic nut cases. Catwoman is always human but the whole "9 lives" thing makes it ambiguous whether she has supernatural powers or whether shes just very lucky. the penguin is all human albeit a VERY deformed and ugly one, and is only called Penguin because of his deformities. personally, i don't believe they are part animal at all. is the penguin really half animal, half human? is cat woman part cat, part woman? these questions never really get answered. in this movie, Burton makes the characters very ambiguous. penguin is a classic Tim Burton character in this one, but that can only be a good thing. ![]() hes got some new toys (like the electronic self-targeting Baterang), vehicles and even has 2 new classic villains to contend with. Batman truly does Return in this sequel to the 1989 mega hit, and this time hes better then ever. nevertheless, my 6 year old self was too in love with batman to care about how dark it was, I still loved anything and everything having to do with my favorite superhero and I must have watched this movie, along with the other 2 movies (1989 batman and batman forever) a zillion times on video. not every superhero movie has to cater strictly to the kids. but that doesn't mean its not a great movie. of course in retrospect, this is not at all a kids movie, despite the fact its batman and was aimed at kids who bought happy meals. Man I had it all, the toys, the McDonald's happy meal toys (not to mention those cool large plastic McDonald's cups my mom bought me) the sega video game, the trading cards, the t shirts, the batmobile candy dispensers, all kinds of neat merch based on the movie. All previous BBFC cuts were finally fully waived in 2009 for the Blu-ray release, and the film upgraded to 15.Īh, heres a movie I remember fondly from my childhood. The resulting cuts meant that the audio commentary was dropped from the UK release (probably because it would have been out of sync), although it is still mistakenly advertised as present on the DVD packaging. Various extra features being rated 15 caused the overall category of the DVD to be 15. The BBFC downgraded the certificate back to the original 12 certificate (which was not possible in 1992, when the 12 certificate was cinema only), and waived the cuts to the chain-sticks scene, but the aerosol in the microwave scene remained cut on the grounds that it was a potentially dangerous imitable technique. In 2005, the film was resubmitted for the special edition DVD release. These cuts also applied to all pre-2005 VHS and DVD releases. One cut was of a clown swinging nunchakus, the other was of Catwoman putting some spray-paint cans in a microwave to start an explosion at a department store. In the UK the film was cut by 9 seconds at its cinema release.
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