I actually thought that he should have played both Batman and The Joker in the first movie.

The problem for me isn’t Keaton himself, it’s that because Burton cares so little for the hero and so much for the grotesque villains, he doesn’t get to do anything all except watch TV and rock cool turtlenecks. In a movie called Batman Returns — which would imply that Batman is returning — Keaton makes up a mere 38…

As a little hetero boy seeing Batman Returns in the theater, I was completely obsessed with her as well. She is amazing in that movie.

I didn’t see that until after Batman. Yeah, we should have known all along.

Tom Hanks vs. Michael Keaton is the great “Market Correction” of our era. They were neck-and-neck and Keaton made some god-awful choices while Hanks slapped out Philadelpha/Forest Gump/Apollo 13/That Thing You Do right in a row and kicked…

To be fair, those of us who had seen “Clean and Sober” said “Oh my yes.”

We must never, ever, ever forget just how fucking good Keaton was in this role. You youngsters who only know Keaton for this or for the Vulture or for his VOD crap can’t understand. This was the Night Shift, Mr. Mom and Gung Ho guy being cast as one of the three most iconic superheroes.

It would be like Will Ferrell…

Their chemistry and innuendo are pretty damn hot for a kid’s movie.

To add to your excellent points... Christopher Walken even had a passing resemblance to a 1992-era Donald Trump! If people want to compare a Batman character to a bad businessman with political aspirations... they should chose the one that fits.

“Does this mean we have to start fighting?”

She delivered that line perfectly.

It’s so weird that Walken has been both a Bond villain and a Batman villain. I honestly believe that if he had played Lex Luther in BvS instead Eisenberg and changed none of the dialogue the movie would have been far more entertaining.

This is my point precisely.

I loved the villains in BR so much because they had depth like this. Even Max Shrek sacrifices himself for his son in a surprise move of humanity when the Penguin comes to take him. Also, Christopher Walken is chewing scenery as much as the costumed villains!

Many members of Oswald’s Red Triangle Circus Gang were immigrants (or were at least played by non-American actors with a range of European accents), so, even if he was campaigning on a right-wing platform, and aligning himself with a rapacious capitalist, like Max Shreck, to get elected, bear in mind that his whole…

As a massive obsessive of this film, ever since its release in 1992, I do get frustrated with all the recent comparisons between Oswald Cobblepot and the Red Triangle Gang, and Trump and his minions. The wealthy businessman Max Shreck, who literally says “You’re Fired!” (before shooting Selina Kyle) at one stage, and…

I’ve preferred Batman Returns to Batman for my entire life (or, you know, since I saw them in middle school). It’s just so much more confident. And crazy. And silly. And fun.

Batman Returns did give us this nice little moment:

A stone cold classic! Pfeiffer was Earth-shatteringly sexy and DeVito committed so hard to that hideous character. Best thing Tim Burton ever did.

The masquerade ball scene still remains my favorite Batman-related thing across all media. Also, hell yeah Meteor Man!

The dream of the 90's is alive...