It was strange, repulsive, monstrous, cynical, mean, pessimistic... and not a single thing about it would I ever dream of changing. Easily the best Christmas movie about a man who dresses up as a giant bat.

Danny DeVito spewing black blood from his mouth haunted my childood. 10/10 would recommend.

Danny DeVito as Penguin was pitch perfect casting.

This is my favorite Batman movie. The sets were fantastic, Penguin and Catwoman were awesome; & I love seeing Chip doing a Christopher Walken impression right in front of the guy.

The thing that was traumatising with Batman Returns was seeing the baby get thrown into a river during Christmas. It’s difficult not to feel sympathy towards the Penguin.

The toy line was legendary!!! The resulting parental outrage was memorably over the top and unnecessary!!!

"The best Batmobile" Damn right it was. This was my first cinema experience, at 8 years old. It scared the hell outta me but loved every minute of it. Love this Batman movie which can be a Christmas movie too

I've always loved this one. It's got nothing to do with the comics but Burton's vision is so strong its still enjoyable anyway. Great performances from the cast, the "Does this mean we have to start fighting?" scene is one of my favorites ever and Gotham looks beautiful in the snow. Top it off with Danny Elfman's stunning score that manages to top the first film and you have a fantastic film.

Definitely like it more now than I did back then. Grateful for its weird and dark aesthetic because it paved the way for Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski, who have both repeatedly stated that without it, Batman the Animated Series would either have looked very different or not existed at all.

Bumblebee Cumplepuff being unable to say 'penguin' is the best clip ever.

Even people who don't like the movie said that Michelle Pfeiffer worked perfectly as Catwoman.

I was 11 when it came out and I loved Batman Returns and still love it. Catwoman really awakened something in me.

Batman Returns was a great Tim Burton movie with all of his typical mood, atmosphere and trophes, which just happened to feature characters from Batman. And it was a brilliant dark Christmas fairytale.

Its hardly disappointing its a bad ass Batman film. It did need more Batman in it though.

Great video as usual but what's going on with the focus? Is it a problem caused by the lights in the background interacting with an auto-focus? Because Dan's footage is the only part that looks out of focus.

I loved both the Burton Batman films. I grew up with the movies going to see the stunt show and the ride. It was a good time to be a kid then I think.

I love Batman Returns. You will never see a film take these kind of liberties with an existing character and have it be this good.

As a 5 year old child who had this movie on VHS, I loved this movie, didnt scare or creep me out at all, Loved It, I use to paly this multiple times a week and play with my action figures

Just so happened to rewatch this last night with my older teens. They understood how weird Burton is and so it didn’t phase them much. I rather enjoyed it and found more humor 30 years later. The unrealistic survival of an abandoned baby and Kiel’s transformation to Catwoman was too much for me as a child. This time I saw more tried and true plot lines where the hero and villain run parallel but diverge on moral grounds. So much better than I remembered. But could have been tweaked into a great movie with a few changes.

It’s surprising THIS nearly killed the franchise. I thought Batman and Robin did more damage….

I loved Batman Returns. I was so disappointed when it received a 12 rating and I couldn't see it at the cinema. I still have the poster somewhere.

This was immediately my favorite Batman movie and has remained so to this day.

I will die on this hill: Batman Returns is one of the best Batman films we’ve ever gotten. Is it comic accurate? God no. Is it child friendly? HELL NO! (and I say that as a kid that watched it when i was 12). But its an excellent study of 3 weirdo loners trying to find their place in this absurd Gotham universe. The stuff between Selina and Bruce recognizing their traumatic need to hide behind masks is inspired. As a huge comic fan I get the idea that it’s not faithfully using the comic book mythos, but no comic book film was during this era. I still think this is an underrated gem of a superhero film.

I can still remember coming out of the theater at 14 with my family and my Mom being SO MAD at this film.

I loved Batman Returns. I was 14 when I saw it in the theater in 1992 and was so happy I was seeing it. I had missed Batman in 1989 because by the time my mom took me to see it, it wasn't showing anymore. After seeing Batman Returns I spent months buying everything I could find with Batman on it. I even had the poster of Catwoman standing in her window with the neon sign that says Hell Here behind her.

Michael Keaton best real life comic book character.

At the end of The Long Halloween, there's an exchange between Batman and Jim Gordon. They brought down the Falcone crime Family, but one of the casualties of that war was the loss of their friend and ally, Harvey Dent. And so Batman is left to wonder what they had accomplished could've ever justified the consequences of what they had suffered. Gordon replies “If you're asking me, did the good guys win? Yes, the good guys won, Batman. But I won't know if it was worth it for a very long time.” Although Tim Burton had publicly stated he doesn't read a lot of comics, I feel this story and this moment alone would have resonated with him. Because his Batman movie was nothing more than a major victory in many respects. Not only did he turned the way of changing audiences’ perspective on Batman away from the campy 60s show, he didn't just cast a shadow over the comic book movie genre, so large we're still living in it, (to which I feel many are getting sick of), he had helped changed the landscape of blockbuster filmmaking. Forever. And was in his late 20s when he did it. So for this kid who felt perfectly at home as an esoteric outsider making quirky little films with little money, this sort of mainstream attention he was suddenly experiencing was a little uncomfortable. At best he appeared a little ambivalent about Batman’s success. But at worst, he seemed extremely terrified of it. Which might've been part of the reason why Warner Bros was scrambling to get a sequel up and going again, he remained frustratedly non-comiddle about his non-involvement. For the studio, he was the guy that finally made sense of the long development the movie went through. They were weary of trusting anyone to the project. (At least not yet.) But Burton was the opposite of the spectrum. He was struggling with how much credit he could really be attributed to him. Surely, the brand itself had done the heavy lifting. As long as Batman was on the poster, did it really matter who made the damn thing? Obviously, we all know now that of course it did. But those were the insecurities haunting a young artist who had never experienced adulation or scrutiny to this scale before. One day, you're the Nirvana that made a few stuff like Bleach and gained a small crowd. But then the next day, you're the Nirvana that made Nevermind and changed the entire world. And Batman Returns is most definitely Burton's Nirvana. He recognized that he was still developing as a filmmaker. As his films grew more and more personal and more refined in their own sensibilities, it was clear to anyone paying attention that there was a lot of discovery going on. And so, diving headfirst into another Batman movie, probably felt like some regression into rejectory. Burton wanted a challenge. Unsurprisingly, his attitude towards all of this was sort of “Been there, done that.” Which was exactly why he intentionally didn't want to be unavailable when he signed on to make Edward Scissorhands for a different studio instead. But rather than hiring a different director to helm the project like anyone would nowadays, Warner Bros was willing to wait. They would do everything in their power to lure Burton back on board. The first step was commission the first film's screenwriter, Sam Hamm, to write a script. Originally, Hamm wanted to have Harvey Dent become Two Face after it's revealed The Joker somehow survived the fall, and during his trial, sprayed acid on his face, turning him into Two Face. But Warner Bros wanted The Penguin as the next villain, whom they saw as the next biggest Marquee villain next to Joker. Meanwhile Hamm had enough loose conversations with Burton to discover that he was actually really intrigued with the character of Catwoman. As a result, both villains were included. Sam Hamm’s original script titled “Batman II” was drastically different from the final product. It was something many at the time were probably experiencing what the sequel was going to be like. Both villains were more inline with their comic book counterparts, Vicky Vale returned, as did Harvey Dent, Robin was introduced, making callbacks to events in the first movie, the same sets made reappearances, even expanding the role of Jack Napier’s backstory into the plot. The script was very much a direct sequel to the previous film. And so when Tim Burton read it, it confirmed his apprehensions. Although it was a confident script, it was just more of the same movie. He wanted nothing to do with it. So Warner Bros made one last ditch effort to convince him back for the movie. And that was to give him FULL. CREATIVE. CONTROL. He could bring in his own writers, he would no longer have to listen to whatever producer Jon Peters wanted in the movie, there were no pop songs he'd be forced to include on the soundtrack, he didn't have to force in characters he wasn't interested in Robin or Two Face. No notes, no demands, no interference. They ended up giving him the largest and most expensive canvas he was ever given and told him he had free reign to do whatever he wanted. And the more Burton considered it, the harder it was often to turn down. And so Warner Bros ended up getting exactly what they paid for: A film that was, for better and for worse, exclusively a Tim Burton movie. And while it was true the movie created controversy among parent groups, and the kids that actually got to go see the movie in the summer of 1992, the backlash for Batman Returns is greatly exaggerated. It was still a hit that summer, it was the third highest grossing film of 1992, and it received generally positive reviews. Many of them who hadn't liked the first movie. Something you'd also see when you watch KZfaqrs react to the movie. Most people that felt the first movie was okay, they all felt Returns was better while others that felt it wasn't as good as the original. But both Tim Burton and Michael Keaton also agreed it was a superior movie to the original as their preferred choice. But while the movie did very well, the problem was that it didn't do as well as a Batman movie should. Especially when you compare it to something like The Dark Knight. And Burton deservingly took the line share of the blame for that. The franchise was still too early to end, the third film was never in jeopardy. The only thing that changed was the studio no longer viewing Burton as the key to all of this. They felt exactly how Burton felt the way he had before singing on the project: “As long as Batman was on the poster, did it matter who made the damn thing?”

The only thing I remember liking about this movie is Selina and Bruce realizing who each other was and Selina(?) going, "Does this mean we need to fight?"

The Catwoman film references the previous "host" from Batman Return and a photo of her is seen so it is "canon". Keaton also shot scenes for Aquaman 2, then Affleck was used in reshoots and then both versions of Batman were Zaslaved out of the film. Oh WB.

Batman Returns has DeVito, Pfeiffer, Walken and Keaton all doing a bang up job with an excellent script. The whole thing plays like a gothic nightmare/dream, what's not to love? And it's far more interesting than Batman 89' ever was - love them both, just saying.

Crazy timing of this video. I JUST randomly watched Batman Returns today on a rainy afternoon in Dallas. Great insight

I owned this on VHS as a kid and honestly people's recollection of it being kid unfriendly is so strange to me. I loved it as a 6 year old, anything to get more batman in my life lol

You can't say that a movie with the line "Saved by kitty litter." disappointed anyone!

The villain power plant in this movie sounds like the sort of thing you need for solar and wind power to be useful during night and calm days. Like... I'm sure it's more evil than I'm remembering.... But it basically sounded like the big reveal was that it was actually a battery....

The film was an excellent follow on to 1989 Batman. The problem was not the script, director or the cast. It was the greed of the suits at Warner Bros, who were wanting more fat bonuses off the hard work of others. Who in turn handed it over to others who really didn't know and gave us a Batman of the 1950/60s comics set in the 90s.

I remember recording _The Bat, The Cat and The Penguin_ on a VHS tape when it aired. It was kind of a behind the scenes for the movie, and I remember watching it a lot. In fact, I have clearer memories of that watching special than I do of watching the actual movie.

I grew up watching this movie all the time but honestly a large part of the appeal is nostalgia. The older scripts that were a more direct sequel to the original movie seemed like a stronger story.

I don't get how parents were surprised at the tone of this one after seeing how the first one went, Batman Returns felt like more of the same just turned up a tiny bit more. As a kid I didn't notice anything too different apart from the variety in henchmen and the added creepiness of things but I liked it, didn't have nightmares about Penguin or ask my parents an awkward question about the dialogue and I liked the toys that were coming out, well at least Some of the toys \ figures that came out. 😅👍

I saw this opening night in the theater just after high school graduation. I remember not liking Batman 89 as much as everyone else, but I did love this one. Probably my favorite Batman movie.

Merry Christmas to everyone and thanks for the videos!

It was considered disappointing?! Maybe kid me was too young to understand critics but I thought it was awesome...and it paved the way for batman the animated series

You guys always make such great content! Merry Christmas guys!! 💪😎🤟

A+ video! LOVE IT! Such high-quality videos and they are even getting better!

Great video - although (and I hate to be that guy, but…) saying that Halle Berry’s “Catwoman” movie isn’t connected to the Tim Burton Bat-verse isn’t entirely true. The Halle Barry film very directly references the Michelle Pfeiffer version of the character, implying at least a loose continuity, if not a full-fledged spin-off.

I saw Batman Returns 3 times in the theatre. Once was by choice. The other 2 were because I was hanging out with people that hadn’t seen it yet so I tagged along.

I adore this movie. The only one that comes close for me is The Batman.

It fascinates me how this movie was panned at the the time of its release, but has become considered the definitive Burton Batman by many fans.

I love Batman Returns. It's still my favorite Batman movie. Michelle Pfeiffer was amazing as Catwoman, and Michael Keaton is the best Batman. ♥️

I was too busy beating “Bad Dudes” from Data East!!!😂😂😂 We have to save the President!😭🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

Your line about “audiences not ready to think about the future” reminded me of a quote from Batman 89 “Think about the future” 😊 Great video 👏

Time has been much kinder to this film. It's a classic in my mind.

Wait what?!?!?! Batman Returns is fantastic! Selena Kyle:"Wait... does this mean we have to start fighting?!" It's on my playlist for next week damnit!

Not sure how this one did poorly, it's the 2nd best Batman next to both Batman staring Joker. It's those next 2 movies that really made things worse. 😅👍

I still consider it the best Batman movie ever made. DeVito was brilliant as the penguin.

I watched this last week for the first time in a long time and this movie rocks. That may not be the Penguin and Catwoman from the comics, but damn are they endlessly entertaining to watch. I love this movie.

When I first saw Batman Returns in the theater back in '92, I was actually a little disappointed. But, it was more of a case that Batman '89 was so amazing, it would have been impossible to surpass. But Batman Returns grew on me pretty much immediately afterwards.

My favorite batman, and a movie I rewatch every christmas. I watched it last sunday

In the UK we were ready to think about the future, this set the opening weekend record, beating Terminator 2's previous record.

After all these years at 37 years old im just now wondering How the hell were there penguins in gotham in the first place

I couldn’t see it matching the success of the 89 Batman. The 89 Batman was a legit cultural phenomenon. In its own it was just really decent dark and quirky follow-up.

Thanks for calling out the boss of all bosses and his ability to lose money.

I actually watched this in the theater and I love it.

10:33 i felt something as a kid seeing Catwoman and her costume, and it was definitely corrupting

The parents must've thought it was the adam west batman movie they were seeing

One of the greatest and possibly the most accurate when it comes to following the original setup for batman and what a derivative must deliver - and more importantly change to differ in a unique way - to be representative, while staying true to the core. Masterpiece!

Lmao @Jason you stuck in! I love this movie! Saw it in theaters and was all in! I’m 41 now so it hit me at the right age. I loved the original & hate I missed it in theaters. I had my whole room done in Returns shit lol Ate a lot of McDonald’s to get all the stuff Used to play with the toys under the Christmas tree. Still have them & while I remember being excited to finally find the catwoman toy as a kid was disappointed they didn’t give us another penguin or other film characters. It’s definitely a Christmas movie & have been enjoying reactors reactions to it lately(they always like it)

Shrek's plan wasn't even an evil plan, and certainly not worth attempting to murder his assistant over. Adding a power station that acts as a giant battery would eliminate power deficits and would offset fuel consumption/costs during peak demand times. It's literally the concept behind using an electric vehicle as an additional power supply with Vehicle to Grid(V2G) to balance the electric grid during peak demand hours (and during a power deficit scenario that would cause a brownout or a blackout the power redistributing from the EVs activates in a fraction of a second preventing the black/brownout scenario with no noticeable change in the power usage, as opposed to a generator system that has a noticeable delay before it kicks in or a power plant having to generate extra power which can take several seconds to minutes depending on the operation) or the method of Vehicle to Home(V2H) that acts as a backup power supply for just the individual house in the event of a blackout/brownout event similar to how a Tesla Powerwall works.

Still the best Batman movie! If only we got to see Burtons trilogy. Happy Christmas Secret Galaxy team. Thanks for all the content this year

For me, though I did enjoy it, I didn’t like it as much as the first. I can’t quite put my finger on it, the best way I can describe it was it was mean. There was a quality of fun that the first one had that this one didn’t.

Harvey Dent, "anyone think it's weird that Bruce Wayne has a shit ton of bat signals build around it?"

I definitely like your channel and appreciate your input but this movie is fantastic man…I can’t believe you feel this way about this movie

I was obsessed with Batman in 1989 and 1990. Dad got a VHS copy of The Blob (1988) and told me it was the new Batman show. In the movie, Kevin Dillon was wearing a leather jacket with a clown on it. Dad said, "See? He works for the Joker." I watched most of the movie anticipating Batman to show up and destroy this blob creature. I kept asking my dad when Batman was going to show up. Dad kept saying, "He's comin'!" I was largely disappointed when Batman didn't show up.

Merry Christmas Dan!

I was 11 when this came out and remembered being slightly let down from the '89 version. I however watch it as a staple of my "Christmas movies" along with Die Hard.

I like it where Adam West was on one episode of the Big Bang Theory and said that he didn't need need any padding as Batman, "All West."

Tim Burton batmans best batmans. Somehow I had no trouble understanding that it was for adults. Maybe parents should pay attention to parenting.

I wonder, why is there a quick shot of Jason Vorhees (of Friday the 13th Jason Takes Manhattan) in the Batman Forever trailer?!

Batman Returns is definitely a unique experience

As a kid I cried when given a Devito Penguin toy, having seen the movie and being very young I still understand that that guy was a baaaaad man

As a kid I wasn’t disappointed when I saw the movie in 1992 and as an adult I still enjoy it. The box office wasn’t overly disappointing IMO & I even remember some critics liking it. The only people I remember hearing were disappointed were McDonald’s. Apparently they didn’t find it very Happy Meal friendly. I have heard Tim Burton say that McDonald’s specifically did not like when Penguin spews up green sludge at the end of the movie. I love Batman Returns

“Disappointing?” How dare you?! YOU CHANGE THE TITLE OF THIS VIDEO, NOW!!!

x We watched the tv series Batman (1966-1968) and The Joker and The Penguin were our favorite characters with The Riddler coming in at third. x Incredible video, love the Batsuit too!

I still have the McDonald's cups from this and Batman Forever.

It wasn't disappointing! It's fantastic! My favourite Batman movie!

Great episode, but why is Dan so blurry? Is this a stylistic choice?

The first one was unique, a spectacle. It didn't really have a story or purpose beyond that. And so, in a perfect world, there should have been no sequel. But with the prospect of money to be made, and the growing lack of ingenuity on how to make awesome, stand-alone movies for the general audience--or even how to provide a continuing story and world for that audience--we got Batman Returns. Honestly, was there anything good about it at all? The casting, I guess. But the spectacle was over and done, just a rehashing. Again, no story to speak of, or character development. And without the newness of the spectacle, it had nothing to learn on, except for Michelle Pfeiffer in the skintight catsuit. And, really, we already had Julie Newmar two decades earlier. It's evidently really hard to transfer comic book characters to the big screen, with real life actors. The regular, non-comic-reading public doesn't want it, and we keep getting writers, directors, and actors/actresses who can't do it. (With the exception of the first Iron Man movie.) The uncanny valley is extremely unforgiving. The metaphorical, mythological world of comics is uninteresting to the general public, unless you downplay most everything about them that made the characters good to begin with.

What is with the Jason Voorhes clips in recent videos? I’ve noticed them over the last 6 weeks or so

HOW DARE YOU. And on Christmas too...

Fingers crossed 'Zaslav'd' picks up! don't think I ever got around to seeing returns, but the original might be my #2 favorite comic book movie ever. (#1 of course is TMNT from 1990)

"I could always push you out the window..." Or whatever exactly Max Shrek says. So damn good!

I didn't realize this under-performed at the box office. It was my favorite Batman film until Nolan came around. Saw at a drive in theater with my mom.

It was good to me.😎👍

Still, could be worse! My nose could be gushing blood!

Disappointing? No... just no. You're allowed to have an "opinion" and I'm allowed to say it's wrong.

That, “ flat top / pompadour,” line….*chef’s kiss.*

This was the first Batman movie I ever saw. I love it even though it’s really different from the source material. Devito’s penguin is what does it for me

2 quotes I regularly said as a child after I watched the first 2 films “This town needs an enema!” And “I played this stinking city like a harp from hell!”

The transforming coupe was one of my favorite toys as a kid. I wish I still had that thing.

I remember seeing it in the theater when I was 15. It was getting dull and I went to get more snacks. The usher was offering to let people switch to the other screening room that was showing Cool World.

I can say it brought back the 4 inch Superhero figures and soon afterward Toy Biz started to reuse sculpts from old Super Powers figures to represent more versions of Batman. There were a few years where there wasn't any Batman at the Super Powers size available, although you could still get Super Powers for a couple bucks on shelves at supermarkets - one local one had a rack of them until 1992!