“All three villains of the movie; Shrek, The Penguin, and Cat Woman” If someone heard that out of context, they would be very confused.

So in BOTH Batman Returns AND Gotham, the Penguin's father is Pee-Wee Herman. That explains SO MUCH.

Linkara doing a Christopher Walken impersonation, yeah I agree this'll be fun.

I agree with you on that scene with catwoman destroying her stuffies, and I too will defend my childhood stuffy.

Tired: arguing about Die Hard being a Christmas movie (it is) Wired: arguing about Batman Returns being a Christmas movie (it is) Also: BEAAAAAR!!

fun fact? The Ninja Turtles joke? It's exceptionally appropriate, after the show and toys came out the only thing that haunted their ascent was the release of Batman, which became the hot toys for Christmas '89 but the short Bat-Fever didn't last through to the next year, when Turtlemania took over.

I think I can see where you're going with the character arc. In Batman, he got his revenge, the city loved him, and he had Vicki. Then, in Batman Returns, he's alone in that room, no Vicki, nothing. Everything you said about his revenge and what it did is what he tells Dick Grayson in Batman Forever. And then when Dick doesn't get his revenge, Bruce sees him as a son and is not willing to lose him. It's... honestly a good arc and one good thing from Batman and Robin.

Sooo how come now modern comics have included the Gotham sewer penguins? I bet Damian would adopt like five before Brucie could blink.

5:15 Paul rubens also played penguin's dad in GOTHAM

I do remember being pretty appalled by the opening scene where baby Oswald was thrown into the stream when I was a kid. I think the first time I saw it I had missed the part before it where he ate the cat, so all I could think was how horrible it was for the parents to throw a baby into a freezing cold water to die. And I thought the "cat bath" scene was funny, because, at the time, all I knew was that cats did wash themselves that way, and didn't understand the sexual implications of it. I do personally enjoy Batman Returns the most out of the first four Batman movies.

I don’t know, I think a few politicians could literally bite someone’s nose off and it wouldn’t affect their poll numbers at all.

I woke up from a nightmare. And now I see linkara with a video to comfort me. Thank you linkara.

I do regret that they didn't include Harvey Dent. Billy Dee did not get enough credit for that part in the first movie.

Do you sleep?...Huh. I guess if I'm up at this time, that means I don't either.

Yay for Eliza being alive still

"Selina, you wound me. If I wanted to grif my customers, I'd just work on Fallout 76" Ouch.

I love the christmas version of the theme song.

"I much prefer Postmodern Jukebox." And this just became my new favorite episode!

I also consider Batman Returns to be a classic Christmas movie, since it is one of my earliest memory of a Christmas movie and started my views of the holiday as a cynical time way before it became a recent take on more newer holiday films.

Eliza is sad and therefore, I am sad. I never thought I'd grow attached to the blue foam lizard

it always bothered me that Penguin has a circus background. Aside from Tim Burton has a thing for putting Dany Davito in the Circus , the theme better suits Joker or Robin. You would think Penguin's goons would be dressed in feathers or formalwear.

Oh, hey, Boffo! The best aclowntant

5:35 And with that baby went the Mc Donalds Happy Meal deal.

I never got the Max Shreck character but a few weeks ago I saw a neat video saying he was originally suppose to be Harvey Dent. This works so much better since I can see Harvey backing the Penguin as mayor with him as the puppet master to clean up Gotham only to eventually get disfigured and become insane. I wonder why the change. Christopher Walken would make a great Two-Face!

Batman for Christmas? At least it isn’t Santa the Barbarian.

Kind of in the same boat as Linkara. Batman Returns was my second film I saw in theaters (First being the TMNT: Secret of the Ooze) and I think it gets a bad rap. I never even thought of the adult stuff, just: Penguin is creepy evil, Catwoman is insane, and Batman has to stop them. Laugh at the stuff I found funny, cheer on the action scenes, and move on.

Am I the only one who would love to see Christopher Walken play Mr. Freeze from Batman and Robin? Imagine him saying all of the ice puns.

Hilarious Walken impersonation 🤣 thanks for all the vids!

16:50 Linkara, you get it wrong. All you need is one bad day

Linkara? Yes! Linkara reviewing a Batman Movie adaption? Also yes!! Linkara reviewing a Batman Movie adaption WHILE also doing a Christopher Walken impression? **YEEEEEEES!!!**

The problem with the movie is that it began the trend that considers "upping the stakes" in a sequel to mean adding more villains instead of making better villains. Christopher Walken is Christopher Walken and there's always entertainment value in that. I wasn't a fan of this portrayal of The Penguin. The whole abandoned child angle could have really made for some great characterization, but it was mainly just backstory. He already knew who he was and his big plan was already in place from the beginning. The whole mayor thing was a side quest to tie him toe Schrek and possibly a nod to the 60's series. Pfieffer did a good job as Catwoman, but I'm not fond of the mystical origin and acting like Selina and Catwoman are two different people. I think the Burton movies, in general, have lost their shine because Batman: The Animated Series came out shortly after this film, took the dark and retro feel for Gotham, pulled back on the Burton a bit, and did pretty much everything better.

Hearing Linkara say he loves Batman Returns, the film, made my day. I'm not the only one!

Die Hard has always a Christmas film. You don't have your main conflict resolved by the spirit of the season and not be one.

YAAAY! BEARY'S BACK! And also Boffo! ...never planned on this being my first post on Linkara's vids, but I've been watching for years and that's what I've always loved. These are characters with little to them, a cutaway gag, some props & effects... but they're fleshed out, there's care & love put into them! Boffo is just a clown! He's smart, kind, good at taxes... but he's just a clown! No dark backstory, no inexplicable extra-dimensional hoohah (*though I do come here for that too.*) Just a clown! ... thatalsoturnedintoamachineforseveralyearssothatexplainsthat.

I'm pretty sure these movie adaptation comics are based on scripts and productions photos from the movies rather than the movies themselves, since the movies are likely still in post-production while the comics are being made. Using the limited material they've been given as a reference, the comic writers/illustrators make educated extrapolations on what the scenes look like and how they play out visually.

I forgot how much I love the Christmas mix of the theme song.

See, the problem with all these movie adaptations, is - from my estimates, one minute of a movie is worth about a page of a comic. How are these adaptations supposed to fit 120-minute films in 70 pages without leaving stuff out? It's impossible, it cuts down the film almost in half. Props to the writers for making the story mostly understandable under such constraints anyway.

I thought your grandmother would disapprove of you playing with them Batman toys. But then again she would be telling you about how that mean Olsen The Scrooge was watching Silent Night deadly night 5.

Love this movie, It's my favorite Batman movie of all time and I even love the Batsuit.

I personally like when you have fun in an episode

Huh..... Why do I have feeling I wanna see a KZfaq series of Christopher Walken reacts to stuff? XD

1:42 BEEEEEEEAAAAAAAR! It's been too long ^.^

I owned this as a kid and I loved it! It got wrecked as as a child I didn’t take care of my comics. Damn shame as I had a LOT

This Eliza arc completely flew over my head so I essentially have a new AT4W mini storyline to enjoy and I’m very excited for the surprise

Was looking forward to this one eagerly just to hear Linkara Walken.

Where would we be without our resident accountant clown to help us during tax season. Great to see them back :)

"This is my Bear, and I will BURY any who would do it harm!" Amen, brother. "Just a word or warning, I may have WAY too much fun in this episode." Don't you DARE apologize for your Christopher Walken. lol 7:57 - "Forgot. My. Speech." Huh. Curious punctuation on that bit of dialogue. Was the writer trying to emulate Walken's speaking manner? "Forgot my... speech, wow..." 10:54 - Okay, comic... If you want to make Selina sassier than she was in the movie... don't know why you'd WANT to, but okay, fine, whatever... but she's commenting about her SHOES? She's frustrated with her sex life, she hates being domineered by her overbearing, chauvinistic bosses, the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back was a phone solicitation for perfume (more specifically for the prospect of IMPRESSING said chauvinistic bosses), and you want her to make a quip about how protective she is about her SHOES? Why not have her say that she needs to get back home safely so she can make her man a sandwich or something? "I don't know about you, Miss Kitty, but I feel.... SO much yummier..." And you have her saying that in her regular office clothes instead of her liberating S&M suit. Yeah, this comic sucks...

I heard the opening notes of the Christmas-themed theme song and I immediately started going, "Jingle Bells, Batman Smells. Robin laid an egg!" :D

Introduces Max Shreck as “Gotham’s Santa Claus”...and yet he’s dressed like Ebenezer Scrooge.

I have a lot nostalgia for this comic. One of the first Batman comics I ever read, the art is great and there's a few added bits that I wish made it into the movie.

Your mention of seeing Batman Returns in theaters at age 4 reminds me of when my Dad showed me Batman 1989 on TV when was 3 or 4. Nightmares for weeks. Batman Returns may be ok for kids, but its prequel certainly isn't. And I remember having a Batman Returns coloring book too. The Burton Batsuit and Batmobile designs are still fantastic.

I first saw this movie and the original when I was like eight or nine and I loved it and I still love it to this day. I never understood what all the controversy was about. Yeah this movie is dark and depressing and violent but not to a significantly greater degree than the previous one.

Am i the only one who noticed Eliza was on a suitcase?

I also saw Batman Returns in theaters when I was six, and it was shortly after I first watched the previous film on VHS a few times. And I fondly remember later getting a VHS copy of Batman Returns as a Christmas gift from my parents, and the tradition continued with Batman Forever on VHS, Batman & Robin on VHS, (skipping Batman Begins, because I already had a DVD copy 2 months in advance), The Dark Knight on DVD, and The Dark Knight Rises in the Dark Knight Trilogy Blu-ray box set. 6:32- I figured with your attempt on making the best Christopher Walken impression you can possibly pull off. =D I also love the Bat Signal scene from the movie. It's pure Batman. Welcome back on the show, Boffo. Long time no see. 14:46- That, or "Space is warped and time is bendable." 15:20- Somewhere in Texas, Angry Joe is laughing uncontrollably. 17:57- I'm sure Spoony is laughing his ass off, too. 19:28- Makes me wish Donald Trump went all Mike Tyson on someone's nose to cost him the 2016 election.

Best gift for me this year would be a cameo or a short story arc with Insano from Spoony on this show. I really miss the guy and I know he and Lewis are friends.

Happy Birthday Eliza! Don’t worry, we still remember

"Your analysts aren't talking growth, they're talking mild swelling." I had a friend who had an operation by an unlicensed doctor who promised growth, but in the end it was just mild swelling. Bicep enhancement implants need tighter regulation.

I love the cover for this review. Everything about it is perfect. XD

Mad props for the use of a Siouxsie and the Banshees song for title card and ending.

Awww, they completely ruined Selin'as breakdown. It's such a fantastic scene in the movie.

Linksano after Boffo tried to plead for his life when he turned him into a jukebox: For the LAST time, I DON'T speak CLOWN!

5:53. I could almost hear Christopher Walken saying that line. Lol

I’ve only recently started watching your videos but seeing the holiday rendition of your theme is amazing lol

My favourite part of this movie was the dark Christmas back drop so I'm happy to see you give the comic the proper holiday treatment

I cant wait Buffo turning a major plot point in the next dark at4w storyline

your Christopher Walken impression was spot on

Love the christmas theme song! :)

I was half expecting Nostalgia Critic to pop up out of nowhere.

Man, I forgot how much I love the Christmas theme song. I'm usually not a fan of Christmas songs (except for Carol of the bells) but this one rocks!

I really like Boffo. He should get more screen time in the future.

Linkara has a bear, Benzai has a Barry.

I owned this Comic and am quite Nostalgic for it, I think you have a different looking cover then I did. This movie's inspired a lot of Trump memes. Max is Trump the Billionaire and Penguin Trump the candidate.

In the movie, the parents were less horrified and more annoyed. Like, you could totally imagine them saying, "Oh, my! If word of this gets out, we'll be the laughing stock of the entire Gotham aristocracy!" in posh accents.

1:35 Same here, I am so glad someone feels the same way me and my brother do about that scene

It was this review that got me to re-examine Batman Returns…and actually see the merit in it.

Gotta say, Lewis dose a great Christropher Walken impression.

14:40 that or the comic is operating on Frank Miller time.

I cannot believe the new outfit is two years old already

I'm just glad I'm not the only guy that loves plushies... why did I just admit that.

I love your Pmj reference, Linkara!

This video gets extra Internet Points for Linkara giving his Chris Walken impression the ol' college try.

I just love your Christmas theme song. :D

I love the movie. It's its own thing, it's not a faithful adaptation of the characters, but it's such a great movie. It's batshit insane, it's dark and it's awesome.

Lovin' the yuletide-themed rendition of the themesong! "Frank Miller, you're off the Nice List!".

Now I want to hear Christopher Walken do a cover of "All Star".

I love my stuffed animals too, Lewis. I still beat myself up that a ton of them got lost to Nicotine and bugs. I love the holiday getup you put your teddy bear in by the way.

Glad to see you crossovering with E-Rod

I must have read this one a hundred times when I was a kid.

I'M BATMAN, AND SLEEP IS FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE ROCK AND ROLL!!

Well, it looks like Linkara's ready for Christmas in a snap! I wonder how the Nostalgia Critic is celebrating his Christmas with his over-the-top reaction.............that gives him power to kill millions and breath in space................

I like the holyday variant, that shade of green works well with that shade of brown an red ties are always good

I love this film as well. In fact; it's my favorite batman film.

I used to have a special edition of this comic when I was a kid (I actually read the comic before watching the movie) and I'm 100% positive that it had an entirely different cover. In fact, that might have been the only reason this was a "special edition" in any way.

19:10 Meanhile I guess Penguin was infected by the Thing off screen going bybthe bottom right panel.

I love Batman returns it’s one of my favourite Batman movies

I always thought it was weird that PENGUIN had CIRCUS themed minions.

Is it strange that around this time of year I find myself always thinking back to the Elvira's house of mystery and Zombie Christmas Carol reviews? Somehow those two reviews stuck with me in a way I didn't expect.

I liked that callback of Linksano turning Buffo into a jukebox.

If Die Hard and Batman Returns are christmas movies... That makes Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz a christmas movie.

Let's hope that if Linkara wins the Contest of Champions, he doesn't wear the Infinity Gauntlet during the Christmas season and accidentally kill half the universe with the finger-snap-transition.