a a kid i grow up with the chintzy 60 tv series ( and no i be not that old pow . ) . however when director tim burton bring his novel vision to the silver screen and i simply take an immediate shine to it and never back away from favor his installment over the much hype late addition ( batman begin and the dark knight ) and which i do not really care for . even if theyre go for a much more grounded approach and want to explore bruce wayne or batman psyche far but in honesty i do not think there all that much to tap in to . i want crazy fun with a dark streak and in my eye that what burton bring across and and this be the reason why i can watch them over and over again . after wow audience with the 1989 batman and thanks to the gaudily gothic art direction and jack nicholson take no prisoner performance of the camp up and but psychotic joker . burton would return 3 year later for the follow up and my favorite of the batman film so far while batman return . camp and but well do . in what would fair up to be even more expansive and louder and dreary and and nihilistic and have two villainous foe for the price of one . enter the grotesque penguin ( with danny devito magnificently go out on a limb ) and the ravish catwoman ( a steamy michelle pfeiffer who fill out the suit nicely ) come to spoil gotham party . again batman ( an aptly brood michael keaton be equally commendable and look quite imposing in that bat suit look at the eye ) play second fiddle to the bad guy and but i always prefer this sober interpretation of batman that give him an ominously gloomy mystique and but also a wear psychological complexity that never felt the need to force feed . and his turn of bruce wayne be well serve too . burton illustratively atmospheric direction open with his sleek gothic style engrave an carnival comic book world filter in with a splendid range of character and vivid costume . the moody narrative ( in what probably be a tad too long ) be more so symbolic in it progression and rather show piece it spontaneously arrest and extravagant set piece and sharply etched art direction cover with shadowy tinge and grey or blue neon lighting of a wintry backdrop . the magnetically free flow camera work take flight and danny elfman stately spacious score balance the playfulness along with gloomy touch with a very hypnotic pull . the rest of the performance might be overshadow and but christopher walken dig in his teeth into a smarmily glassy role of a two faced businessman max shreck . pat hingle be back and but get very little to do a commissioner james gordon and michael gough be delightful a alfred . in solid support be michael murphy and andrew bryniarski and vincent schiavelli and doug jones and peter rubens also make a cameo appearance .