It’s sillier and more fanciful, but that’s a compliment because it’s so enjoyable. Returns feels like a living carnival show. He’d previously worked with Burton on Beetlejuice (1988) and Edward Scissorhands (1990).
It doesn’t even seem to exist in the same city as before, as production designer Anton Furst’s film noir overtones from Batman were replaced by Bo Welch’s wintry Gothic fairy tale.
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There’s more screen time given to Batman (Michael Keaton), to the unfortunate detriment of alter-ego Bruce Wayne there are more than a couple of standout action sequences this time all the stunts are more elaborate the effects are a little better, there’s a larger variety of vehicles and gadgets to gawp at plus we get more than double the villains, if you include cunning businessman Max Schreck (Christopher Walken).īurton presents us with a more “comic book” sequel than Batman, in the sense it’s more abstracted from reality. It may not have been easy to sell Happy Meals with Burton’s fingerprints all over this franchise, but my generation thank him for doing something so distinctive.īatman Returns is a more elaborate affair than its 1989 predecessor, as most sequels tend to be. I think a mainstream shift happened shortly after Batman Returns in the 1990s, so it’s one of the last movies ostensibly aimed at children that gleefully wandered into baroque weirdness. VHS players in the home opened up a new world of entertainment to children of the ‘80s. It’s fair to say the 1980s were a boom period for kid’s movies thanks to the influence of Steven Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment, but society was adjusting to what was acceptable for younger minds craving edgier material than Mary Poppins. Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer) slashes a woman’s face, twice, drawing blood the Penguin (Danny DeVito) locks his pointed teeth around a man’s nose, causing it to squirt blood everywhere. 25 years later, I sympathise with reports from the time that parents were concerned by its creepy imagery, fetishistic costuming, and violence. I was 13 when I saw Batman Returns at the cinema, and loved every abnormal second. The success of Batman (1989) turned Burton into a household name, and he turned this to his advantage when making a sequel that was bolder and weirder than what came before. But this isn’t the camp 1960s world of Adam West. Not much later, a Santa’s whacked over the head with a sledge ( KA-POW!), a circus performer’s been set alight ( WHOOMPH!), and a woman’s pushed seemingly to her death through a high-rise window ( AARGGH!). It opens with a prologue where two parents murder their deformed newborn son, by tipping his whicker crib over a bridge into an ice cold river. He actually seems like a fairly nice guy.Tim Burton wasn’t fooling around with Batman Returns. Great investment indeed!! Have a look at the interview above where he explains all of this.
He explained here that rather than have to pay royalties to Queen every time “Ice Ice Baby” was played or used for commercials, etc, it was cheaper for him to purchase the publishing rights to “Under Pressure” which he claims cost him $4 million at the time and was a “great investment”. However, years later Mr Caramel Ice (oops, Vanilla) explained what actually happened: I rejoiced hearing this, knowing that he had suffered a financial penalty for plagiarism. Ice came to an undisclosed out of court settlement. Well, yes, that’s true, there is an extra little but at the end, however it’s clear that 90% of the riff was ripped off by Mr Ice.īack in 1990 when the song was released, Queen took V. I then heard Vanilla in an interview say that the riff wasn’t the same because there was an extra little bit at the end of the riff. The bass riff in the sounded almost exactly like the bass riff in Queen’s “Under Pressure”, one of my favourite Queen tracks. I’ll never forget the day I first heard Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby”.
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