Batman Returns (1992) Review

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  The film starts out around 30 years ago, where the Penguin is born. He's really ugly and his parents are afraid of him, so they drop him in a river, and he floats into the sewer.
  It then goes to the present where a bunch of maniacs are attacking the city, so commissioner Gordan turns on the bat signal, and Bruce Wayne sees it and turns into Batman. You would think Batman would have a more exciting return than just looking at the bat signal, but I guess it's alright.
  So Batman saves the day, and we meet Max Shreck, a businessman, and his assistant Selina Kyle. Selina learns about Shreck's evil plans to make a power plant that will actually suck the energy out of Gotham. She knows too much so he throws her out the window, but a bunch of cats go around her and nibble on her fingers. Somehow this gives her 9 lives, at least I think, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
  So she goes home a becomes Catwoman, and The Penguin reveals himself to the world, by pretending to save a baby. He says he never knew his mother and father and lived in a sewer all his life, so everyone starts feeling sorry for him and let's him figure out who he really is. He finds out that he's Oswald Cobblepot, and after that he tries to become mayor with the help Max Shreck. Shreck is helping him because he needs his power plant built and if Penguin wins the election he can make that possible.
  Penguin starts framing Batman, making the people of Gotham believe he kidnapped and woman, and even pushed her off a building. Batman doesn't really do anything to regain their trust, they just start trusting him again anyway. It's weird.
  So Batman gets a CD of The Penguin talking about his evil plans and plays it over and over, and that makes everyone in Gotham go against Cobblepot, so he flees back to the sewer, and to get his revenge he decided to kidnap all the first born sons of Gotham and kill them, but Batman saves them all.
  So instead he sends out a bunch of Penguins with bombs to kill everyone, but Batman stops that too. And in the final battle Max Shreck dies, The Penguin dies, and Catwoman disappears with only 1 live left.
  Many people didn't like this movie because it was "too dark". That wasn't really an issue with me, I just thought it was kind of boring. The plot was okay, kinda complicated, but it was still okay. One thing that annoyed me was how Batman would kill, he did that in the first too. Didn't Burton even care to keep it like the comic books?
  It's not really a bad film, it just lacked the atmosphere of the first and didn't have as interesting villains. It did however have a great soundtrack like the first film. If you're a big Batman fan I say watch it, if not you can pass it. But make sure you check out the first Tim Burton Batman, it's really good and one of my favorite movies ever.

My Rating: 6/10