BATMAN RETURNS: Batmobile & Rocket-Clad Penguins Concept Art

In BATMAN RETURNS, Mike Keaton saved that movie. It could have been cool, but it was too Tim Burton-y. I'm all for sequels going in a different direction ( I thought EVIL DEAD II was awesome) but it has to make sense for the story. Burton was making a superhero comic book movie, but the tone was like Sweeney Todd. It was dark, but the wrong kind of dark. It was gothic dark, when it should have been comic book dark.

Would have loved to have seen his version of BATMAN FOREVER, though.

The last semi good Batman film before the trilogy.

Am I the only one who thinks this movie kicks ass?

And, next to Conroy, Keaton is my favorite Batman.

Keaton was good. Bale was better. Conroy is still the definitive batman.

Only the people who grew up with these movies as their first vision of Batman actually like them. They are utter cheese.

Keaton the midget with a massive head, zero good looks, zero persona as Bruce Wayne, zero fighting skills as Batman, zero deductive skills as anyone. He gets shot and plays dead just so he can kick a regular criminal? He has a programmable batarang that can knock out bad guys but be caught in mid-ar by the jaws of an underfed poodle? He managed to defy basic science and produce a audio scratch sound from rubbing a CD? And he got his ass handed to him by a regular black guy while the Joker danced with Vicki Vale. His Batman had more gagets than Daniel Craigs Bond, he was terrible and Both Burtons movies were like Adam West reborn with a dark fairytale twist. Batman they wasn't!

@ceejay thank you!!! nicholson was the only good thing that came out of any of Burton's bat films

@jessepostal A Year ago I wouldve argued with you but after The Dark Knight Rises Id give Keaton rank above Bale.
Nolan's Batman became so pathetic I could never respect the character and somehow a 3rd Batman with Bale was just too much. The voice didnt bug me in TDK but in TDKR he sounded like a f***ing retard. At times he didnt pronounce syllables and blended words together.
Would love to see a live action Dark Knight Returns with Keaton. And maybe Cavill aged up for Superman.

@1, bale was decent, I def agree with what your saying about rises and bale for that matter. Keaton didn't have a lot of screen time as Wayne like bale did, and the feel of the movies was entirely different, a lot of people say bale was the better actor but you can't compare the movies at all, they are twenty years apart, batman movies now would have not been accepted back than and vice versa. Keaton's just got that mysterious thing goin where you don't know what to expect

Keaton car is the best.

Keaton is the greatest Batman in live action.

Batman Returns was too Tim Burtony tho, it was a Tim Burton movie. The first Batman however is fantastic and a Batman movie for sure. Love it.

*looks at penguin punch*

lol :)

*looks at buzz saw penguin*

JESUS CHRIST!!



classic burton batmobile is classic

Awesome @ NAIL!

Damn cool pics!

KEATON was by far the best Batman ever to grace the big screen, no one else ever got near him.



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Whatever keaton or bale..even clooney...I always love batman.from burton to nolan,I would like to say thanks to them for batman.we should love batman,that's the spirit we need as bat-fan.no more fighting for which one is the faithfully adaptation.

Keaton was horribly miscast as a short, balding and ugly Bruce Wayne. He was a fun Batman for 1989 tho. Batman Returns was pure shit- just a weird Tim Burton film with Batman slapped on it.

This movie was cool as shit when i was 12 yo...the main reason?

The Batman Forever designs for the Batmoblile are hard to look at. The Batmobile is supposed to look badass!

Tim Burton's Batmobile is still the best one we've had on the big screen:





Even the interior looks great:

Burton´s batmobile was cool. I didnt have nothing against Tumbler either.

Next i would like to see batmobile look little bit more like a car again. Of course with massive armor. Newest Dodge Challenger could be cool model to work with. But there thats just example. There is lots of cool new cars which would work as a great model. Batmobile needs to be agile, fast as hell and still strong enough to drive through even a huge concrete or brick wall.

Ok it would have to use the rockets for concrete perhaps but of brick wall it could survive.

LEEE

Exactly bro. The conclusion to THE DARK KNIGHT trilogy contradicts everything Batman stands for as a character. Quitting and leaving the mantle of Batman to a rookie cop he barely knows.....

LOL at people critcizing tim burton's movie:

1 - Man, if the character is not deductive, the fault is all to the writer, what the actor can do? make a "deductive face" ? At least Keaton gave batman an heart (remember? batman doesn't kill his enemies!) instead bale is a real-life psychopath, and he bring into his batman a coldness second only to some killers.

2 - Wow, just wow, you complain about fantastic elements...from a comic book where some of the enemies are a giant bat with an humanoid shape, a penguin shaped man, a cat shaped woman, a guy [frick]ING MADE OF CLAY! and then, you complain about batman's "magic" skills in retrieving clues? at least they gave him some kind of "superpower" right?

3 - It's a COMIC BOOK damn! it has to be unrealistic! go read some Jiro Taniguchi or.. i don't know, any european graphic novel, if you want realism!
WHO THE [frick] WANT A REALISTIC THING ABOUT A MAN DRESSED AS A BAT????

4 - Burton's was objectively the comic book's movie it was like the pages jumped off the paper and came to the screen

Oh, and i liked Nolan's movies, if you're asking, at least to Dark Knight, didn't liked the third, it was a reiteration of itself.

So..peace out haters! :)

@Lee77777

Yepp,but bro,I don't know...tdkr could be the worst 3 of all but I thought it was a brilliant,inspite I just a tad not liking the ending,but still ok.

Sagemode,
Whatever you wanna say,bro.I would like to say,I like chris nolan's batman as I like the burton's batman.I wsih the next batman film will be the combination of burton's and nolan's.one more thing,I like the bat-tumbler.I thought it was badass once I looked it at the first time.

Fricking love Batman Returns, in a lot of ways its still my favourite Bats film, dont get me wrong in a lot of other ways Nolans Bats is. However Burtons batmobile is still the best looking automobile to ever grace the silver screen and Burtons Batsuit is infinitely more beautiful than any other incarnation, Burtons Gotham was a thing of beuaty too

. Keaton and Bale wer both truly excellent and inspired choices for Bruce/Batman, different but equally great same goes for Nolan/Burton

I like the Burton one minus the turbine nose.

-Who are you?

-I'm.....Burtonman.

I'll be honest, I LOVE Batman Returns!!! It's a great solid movie. If I were to put in order my Batman films, it'd be...

THE DARK KNIGHT
BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM (animated)
BATMAN (1989)
BATMAN BEGINS
BATMAN RETURNS
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
BATMAN FOREVER
BATMAN: THE MOVIE
BATMAN & ROBIN