Joker in other media City villains the Penguin, the Riddler and Catwoman. Jack Nicholson played the Joker in Tim Burton's 1989 film "Batman". The "Newsweek" review of the film stated that the best scenes are due to the surreal black comedy portrayed in the Joker. In 2003, American Film Institute ranked Nicholson's performance #45 on their list of 50 greatest film villains. Hugo Blick and David U. Hodges play younger versions of the character in flashbacks in "Batman" and "Batman Forever", respectively. In the film, Jack Napier is the right-hand man of mob boss Carl Grissom prior to his transformation into the Joker. During
Batman: Return of the Joker Batman: Return of the Joker Batman: Return of the Joker, known in Japan as , is a 1991 platform video game, the follow-up to Sunsoft's on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Unlike that game, which was based on the 1989 Batman film directed by Tim Burton, "Return of the Joker" is entirely self-contained and based more on the modern comic book iteration of Batman. However, Batman mans the Batmobile and the Batwing from the 1989 film. A remake of "Return of the Joker", titled Batman: Revenge of the Joker, was released on the Sega Genesis by Ringler Studios in 1992. A