Batman (1989) is a classic movie, but what about Batman Returns? Is Batman Returns a classic movie?

[I love Latina women]

Is Batman Returns a classic movie?

 

[OmegaK2099]

I like it more now than when I saw it as a kid, back then i wasn't feeling it at all. shyt was too weird.

 

[Kaydigi]

There are penguins walking around with rockets on their back....... the penguin is the WOAT villain

 

[Barbados Slim]

Yes and IMO better than the 1989 original.

The general tone was darker, DeVito's penguin was entertaining and Pfieffer's Cat Woman was equally brilliant. Walken's villain was also done really well.

The Batman/Cat Woman relationship was done well and the scene under the mistletoe when they realize each other's secret identities was great!

 

[ORDER_66]

Danny Devito did an amazing job as penguin.... hands down best performance I've ever seen... tortured, funny, maniacal, but all around tragic at the same time...

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

One of the dumbest movies ever made.

 

[Duke_Droese]

Classic. I like it more than 89.

 

[MartyMcFly]

I don't think its a classic but it's definitely a more interesting movie than the first one. It's Burton with no restrictions doing what he wants. It's a gothic Christmas movie that is really pretty to look at and has some cool themes. Isolation, neglect, the nature of being a misfit, corruption, family, etc but it never really nails any of them. It's all over the place in that sense. There's an interesting idea of Oswald and Bruce being of the same ilk...until it's dropped. There's an interesting idea of Bruce and Selina being the same...but it's only given light for two scenes. There's another interesting angle of bruce being jealous penguin is taking that title of Gotham's favorite son. Also, they give lip service to bruce having trouble reconciling his own duality, but because the movie is barely focused on him at all, that too is thrown to the wayside.

Batman Returns has a lot going for it visually but none of the ideas really add up. Plus the penguin vacillates from a tragic figure to a damn sexual assaulter at the drop of a hat. Catwoman is the strongest part of the movie and I'd say her arc is the most complete and complex

 

[Drew Wonder]

It’s a very good movie about broken people but a bad Batman movie

 

[Real]

Lmao. Of course it us

 

[Optimus Prime]

whole thread about it here

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/batman-returns-is-a-weird-ass-movie.546490/

 

[OmegaK2099]

The film score was dope

 

[darealvelle]

Yes it is, great christmas movie as well.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

It's dope I don't know if it's classic status.. I think Batman (1989) is the better Batman movie but the themes in Batman Returns are well thought out

 

[MartyMcFly]

whole thread about it here

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/batman-returns-is-a-weird-ass-movie.546490/