Everything Wrong With Batman (1989) 

Jack did an awesome job as the Joker. Somehow managed to fit in that space between the goofy 60's Joker and the serious one really well.

"This makes me want to sin something - so I will, for virtually no reason at all." CinemaSins summed up with one sentence.

1:35 The task for the designers of Gotham was to make the most unattractive city they could think of. I am serious. It remains one of the largest sets ever. Still, it's better than the one from Batman Forever.

First time Keaton says, "I'm Batman" deserves a remission of 50 sins--at least.

The sin towards the end where Vikki picks something out of her mouth after kissing the Joker's arm was actually a blooper. The director liked it so much he kept it in the final cut.

nothing is wrong with this movie.the first batman movie is the very best batman movie.

Jack Nicholson's Joker. (Sin counter back to 0)

That scene where they were ruining the museum is honestly one of the best scenes. It shows jokers criminality without any violence

Opening credits do nothing for anyone ? Danny Elfman's score should deserve some sins removed.

"Why does he have two bottles of mouthwash down here?" Because he was experimenting with the various cosmetics to uncover Joker's plan... you already covered this plot point so its not a sin.

Dude. Nobody who saw this movie and then The Dark Knight forgot Jack Nicholson's performance, he was that good.

I will allways love that gotham is designed like an architects nightmare.

riddle me this: how in the hell does this have more sins than batman and robin?

After watching this video, Batman 1989 is still one of my favorite Batman movies thanks to Micheal Keaton and Jack Nicholson’s perfected performances! As well as Danny Elfman’s masterpiece of a Batman theme! These 3 main things make Batman 1989 still a great and enjoyable movie to watch!

I feel like Keaton's performance deserved a sin off. There were so many skeptics when he was cast, but he really delivered.

"Did Joker build this contraption for the express purpose of punching a TV when he doesn`t like something?" Laughed way too hard :D

Just realized that Jack Nicholson's clear emphasis on the "T" in the word "NOT" at 11:22 was later inherited by Heath Ledger in Dark Knight.

0:20 Yes, except Prince is an actual music genius unlike Kanye.

C'mon, remove at least 1 sin for Jack's line: "Where does he get those wonderful toys?"

I remember how awesome this version of batman was. Cold AC theater, movie theme rolling, batman logo snacks... awesome cinema times.

The cinemasins video for this movie and the honest trailer came out on the same day. This makes me want to leave a comment. So I will... for virtually no reason at all.

You should have done a bonus sin count for every Vicki Vale scream.

Although the movie doesn't explain it, the bat in the cage is meant to be wounded and Batman is nursing it back to health. This is in the novelization. He has the mouthwash because he was testing all the Joker's tainted products. There's other products visible on his desk as well. I call no sin here. The Joker's long gun was loaded with a powerful bullet... this is explained in the comic book version via dialogue ("Alfred, an explosive shell... I'm hit") but unfortunately not in the film.

In this flick, BEST BATMOBILE OF THEM ALL! 10 Sins off! 😁

13:29 If the gas in the balloon is lighter than helium, how does it effect the people on the ground? It would disperse into the atmosphere.

This was my favorite Batman as a child. He took people out. Keaton was straight ruthless as Batman.

Man, those missing leaves on the left side of the Wayne manor gate were really bugging me too, so I decided to get to the bottom of it. The Wayne manor set is actually the Knebworth house in Hertfordshire, England. Those gates arent props, they're actual gates to the Knebworth house. Problem is, in every single picture I could find (a dozen or so) of the gates, *those leaf clusters are not missing*. Now I *really* want to know why they aren't there.

*One Important thing: DID EVERYONE RUN OUT OF MAKEUP THE MORNING JOKER POISED THE NEW SUPPLY? Everyone could have still used their personal supply!!*

I love this movie, I love Batman, I love prince, I love Tim Burton, I love Jack Nicholson and I love Michel Keaton.

the Batman opening theme should remove 5 sins because it's awesome and it gets you pumped up for action

As a superhero in training, I can confirm that Alfred was the only person in the movie with superpowers.

“I’d like to know why climbing through the roof and smashing through the window was a better option than just walking through the museum doors...” This is Batman. You should add a sin every time he walks through a door like an ordinary local as if he isn’t the most dramatically extra night-time roof stalker on the planet

Bat-foul! You sinned the 108 pounds line, fine, but then you should have removed a sin for the great follow-up gag of the grapple gun not being able to fully work and Batman's line; "You weigh more than 108."

Wait...a 'Prince' music video with Joker in it? A.k.a. the 'Clown PRINCE of Crime'? IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!

You missed one: Vicki Vale just moves to town but is in the phone book.

0:12 Prince TOTALLY rocked that soundtrack dude. Scandalous is one of my favorite songs of all time.

Sin 86: Batman has two bottles of mouthwash in the Batcave because he is investigating the poison in beauty care products. You wouldn’t just test makeup, not the worlds greatest detective.

Michael Keaton is sitting somewhere thanking God that he doesn't look like Johnny Depp after his string of Tim Burton movies.

Jack Nicholson was so damn good as the Joker in this movie. =)

The real sin: saying something is wrong with having a soundtrack by Prince. Never a sin, never.

..Prince's "batdance" is stil a great hit!

The bat in the cage was injured and Bruce was caring for it.

You didn't sin "You wanna get nuts!?" ?

6:36 - I'd take away a sin(or add one depending on my mood) for Jack Nicholson apparently learning how to twirl a baton for this film.

Does anybody actually miss the style of the Tim Burton Batman movies as well as the animated series. I mean I like the movies today but I miss it in the 40's style with the men wearing trench coats and the hats I mean to be honest I always thought it made the Joker look way more intimidating and the way the background looks it really feels like Gotham city. I grew up with this movie and the animated series and it always felt like a real Batman movie to me other then the Joker dieing of course, I think Tim Burton should come back and do more Batman films.

I'm guilty of the "grown woman with a teddy bear on her bed" cliché. The teddy bear wears little Batman jammies though.

Batman does not kill people: gravity does.

5:49 it's called "broadcast signal intrusion" and is something that was incredibly easy to do in the time of analog TV. A little less so with digital broadcasting, but still 100% feasible en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_signal_intrusion 12:19 Jack is about to shoot little Bruce, but his accomplice shouts that they have to flee because the cops are coming and so he leaves: he would've shot the kid too, just wanted to have fun with him first since the boy was defenseless and shocked. It just shows what a ruthless, vile bastard Jack was in his youth. Also, no sin removed for the perfect casting? The actor playing young Napier looks a lot like Nicholson.

Comparing Prince to Kanye? That deserves a sin on it's own.

R.I.P Prince.

Harvey Dent. Can we trust him?

For the reason why there were no cops in the crowd, in the novel expansion, there is a reason for it - Joker delivered a lot of tainted donuts to the police station, using a regular bakery's truck, or whatever. Most got sick afterwards.

comparing Kanye West to Prince, a MILLION sins for YOU.

Jack Nicholson was gold as Joker.

Jack Nicholson is an excellent Joker 🃏

To me Michael Keaton's movies are the best, from orchestral music to iconic character design, they all look like in the animated series or the comics. Everyone thinks Heath Ledger was the best joker, I agree he had the better script but Jack Nicholson looks like the actual joker. The batmobile looks stunning and bullet proof. Batman is just OP here compared to our new Batman.

Still better than The Dark Knight

If CinemaSins taught me one thing, it's no movie is without sin. And that's okay! A movie full of sins can still be entertaining. Logic isn't everything. It's art! I doesn't have to make sense. It's all about how you feel about it.

I've been complaining about that "I always ask that of all my prey" line for 27 years, now! He doesn't say it to all of his prey. He only asks Bruce Wayne!Thank you, CinemaSins. You have set me free.

Nicholson was actually smart on how he handled his contract with this movie in addition to being among the top live action versions. The fact he got paid in royalties even after the movie came out years after was genius.

Actually the Batwing silhouette against the Moon it's probably one of the more memorable moments of movie of my childhood honestly it's right up there with the time Neo and Trinity went into the machine world and went over the turbulence into the sun filled sky just before they crashed and she died like it was that dramatic for me

Well it took you 26 years but thanks anyway.

"... Does that sound like ANY version of the Joker you've heard of?" Yeah... Jared Leto's

Batman didn't drop back down in to the alley to fight Joker's crew for 'no reason'. He did it because the gadget that lifted them out of there got stuck half way because Vicky Vale lied about her weight (as he says later). Dropping back down in to the alley was the only way Vale was gonna make it all the way up to the walkover thing.

This here is the best Batman movie

The Joker poison was not just make up. It was soap, toothpaste, and shampoo.

RIP Prince.... This movie looks like a ton of fun, going to watch it tonight. I'm obsessed with Prince, superheroes, the 80's, and bats... So this will be a favorite I'm sure!

"Also hand rise out of water cliche" "ding"

I have to call shenanigans on Sin 126 at the 13:43 mark. It's a well known fact that Batman has insane gadgets that only have one possible & conceivable use. Need I remind you of the 'Shark Mace' from the Batman TV show with Adam West? Lol

I remember watching this movie when I was a kid so many memories. Michael Keaton is my Favorite Batman.

Sin #52: Its Joker. dont question whatever weird thing Joker has.

Dang it CinemaSins. You just ruined one of my favorite movies with almost pointless sins. Batman 1989 is not a bad movie and is what revolutionized the franchise.

"Never rub another mans rhubarb." Words to live by.

"Even before Spiderman 3, this was iconic imagery, right?" Hitchcock. Vertigo.

4:00 I didn't D: I like Jack Nicholson's joker better

overall the best Batman movie ever.

"Oh come on man! There's nothing wrong with this Batman movie!"

at 7:50 it wasn't that he wanted to jump down to beat up the guys that he didn't have to, it was she weighed more than 108 and was too much for the grapple to pull up.. (which is still ridiculous I guess, 108? no problem, let's go! 118? give or take.. can't be done...)

I got to see this in the theatre when it was brand new. Then I had the good fortune of being able to watch it in the theatre, again, just last summer when our local theatre did a weeknight series of retro movie nights. This movie was filmed for the big screen, by which I mean, something magical happens when you get to see it in that form. Seeing it on a TV from video is a pale comparison. There is a reason it was a blockbuster, why it ran almost 4 months in the theatre, why it sold merchandise, why it inspired a rollercoaster with an actual live action show at Six Flags, etc. Young people complain it is too campy, but they fail to put it into perspective of the timeline compared to early Batman, like the comics and TV show. This Batman was actually gritty compared to the earlier versions, and subsequent movies, and the animated series, pushed the character further down that path. It's fine to like, or not like a movie by personal taste but it is important to look at things with historic perspective especially when looking at things older than you are. This movie as an example, to those that grew up with ULTRA CAMPY Batman TV shows, this movie was a brilliant modern take, an evolution of the character. Context is very important.

You saying 2 and a half minutes of credits that do nothing for anyone is wrong, I watch it just to listen to the song every time it comes on. This movie is the best.

As a kid this was the best movie in the world. And it's still so cool

i got a sandwich, I got soda, I got CinemaSins on. It's gonna be a good day

6:05 "did he bury his face in a box of herpes?" Gets me everytime😁

Still my favorite Batman movie.

Heath Ledger introduced a new type of Joker. He wasn't really the comics Ledger made a dark sadistic killer with the influence of the joker. It's not better or worse it's a different way. They humanized batman.

5:16 Can I please have a tv punching thing? I need a tv punching think!

Batman 89 was amazing. Fun video though.

This is still the best Batman movie so far in my opinion. I love the dark knight movies but I don't think anyone played him better than Michael Keaton.

I liked the architecture in this and in Batman Returns. it's way more gothamish than a real world like in Nolan's Batmans.

So, how many of you paused the video to see if the money was actually from monopoly?

Fun fact: During the first and second world war handguns were made with comically long barrels like that precisely to shoot down planes. Of course, they were modern military-grade jets like the batwing, but that's probably where they got the idea for the Joker's gun.

"Never rub another man's rhubarb" -5 sins. I've just always enjoyed that line

I got a sin at 13:02 Batmans belts slips a little which should not happen via suits of batman....the belt is either attached to the suit or placed around securely and not loose enough to cause SECONDS of trying to grab something from his belt :L

I think you forgot the word "is" between Everything and Wrong

This movie has my favorite Batmobile.

Prince claimed the first song he ever learned to lay was the 60s Batman theme. Soundtrack wasn’t bad and as a Batman and Prince fan, I was excited.

How can you gauge what a psychotic mind would be like? The fact that Napier left Bruce alive after killing his parents show the fractured psyche of such a deranged killer, this sick psychopath kills at a whim, he doesn't follow patterns. He kills for no rhyme or reason, in each and every season, countless die and countless live, some feel loss and some with grief, dress up like crazy lunatics, and perch like bats up in their attics. Lol, pardon me, I'm sleepy and writing nonsense

'Joker motivated by his penis' - the Joker from the Dark Knight Returns animated film.

5:40 This depiction of the Joker is based less on the modern character & more on the first appearance version. He's not exactly obsessed with Batman, more he loves committing crimes and being glorified in the public eye, with Batman always getting in his way. Also, Vicki Vale is a potential play-thing, not an actual love interest

As to sin #85, he probably had two bottles of mouthwash because he was testing them with the other hygiene products for toxicity.