After watching this, I'm reminded on why I liked this movie when I was a kid. It's been such a long time since I've seen it. I just got to get a copy of it on DVD.
This is probably my personal favorite theatrical Batman film, though I love the first Burton film and Dark Knight as well. Plus, Batman and Robin is easily one of the best so-bad-it's-good movies of all time.
This is my 6th favorite motion picture of all time, my 2nd favorite superhero film (after the first Raimi Spider-Man), and Elfman's Catwoman theme is hands down my favorite musical composition ever written.
It just hit me that if Burton had had the chance to make some more movies, it could have been awesome. I really like his vision, I really like the actors in this once, and I would love to see Pfeiffer and Keaton together as the Bat and the Cat again.
Really good video, as usual! The music that plays as the penguin is dying makes me tears up each times I hear it. I don't know if it was already said in the comments (probably was but I didn't saw it, given this video is 5 years old), but another envisioned narrative arc for Max Shrek (dunno if it is the correct spelling) was that he was Oswald's estranged younger brother, who grew as a Cobblepot until he learned of his parent's infanticide and left them away in disgust, renouncing to his birthname and the wealth he would have inherited from them in the process, leading to him having to build his financial empire by himself. It too would have humanised Shrek's character in the same vein as his interactions with his son.
This was well worth watching! The first part had me feeling a bit mixed (about the MOVIE, not the review) because of how strangely structured it all was, but this did remind me that stuff like that won't make a movie bad, and by the end all does come together so very nicely.
I'm one of those guys who puts this film and the first Batman film as my favourite movies ever because of the set designs. Most comic book movies always set their films in real cities so I can't get that much into Comic book films, still enjoy a few but none are my favouritemovies. I just really love how stylized Gotham looks and what you said about those statues, I want them as well ;D
I really love this movie too, it's not only my favorite Batman movie of all time and It's my 3rd favorite Christmas movie of all time right up there with Home Alone 1 and 2. It's one of Burton's masterpieces.