it is. i thought he was really coming into his style fully on batman returns as far as orienting his style in the batman universe. like the first movie does have that tim burton grit to it in the sense of the colors used throughout the movie but as far as the filming quality and his distortion of reality with everyday objects (like the way objects reflect the light in his film, they have a sheen to them) that really came through with batman returns. it'd be cool to have him revisit batman in total...