This amazing deal from McDonalds in 1992 is something to behold! BATMAN RETURNS.. and a 39 cent collector cup with any extra value meal purchase.. Amazing.
Remember it like it was just yesterday..
And if SOMEONE out there still has the container with the fries in, I bet they are oddly and creepily still edible……
Was it the BEST Batman movie of them all? Debates rage..
June 16, 2022 will commemorate the 30th anniversary of Tim Burton’s sequel to his original 1989 hit.
The 1992 film had a Christmas setting, with evil billionaire Max Schreck being an evil that led Gotham to see the creation of a cat woman.. And a horrid slobbering raw fish eating penguin living under the sewers for years long enough to create an army of little penguins ready to blow up the city.
The movie was as macabre as Tim Burton could get. Danny Devito and Michelle Pfieffer joined Michael Keaton in the film.
While not as off the grid super large as the original, it was still super large.
CONTROVERSY!!!
Parents upset!!
Marketing for younger children and it is too violent!
This was the media coverage in 1992 when a number of TV talk shows and news outlets went rogue against Tim Burton’s hit.. One clip as a talk show interviewing a child who said “everything that kids love was being used against them” like clowns and a ducky boat..
(would love to know what this kid thought of Pennywise that aired two years earlier??)
Going back in time to what then highly acclaimed and respected movie reviews Siskel and Ebert thought of BATMAN RETURNS: (and they did not love it)
The final conclusion: Tim Burton makes “great looking pictures” but there is “no need” for Christopher Walken as Max Schreck in the movie..
Parusing some parts of the NET, I found this great article from someone on the appeal of BATMAN RETURNS..
I loved this part of the story:
As child I loved the film for the simple reason that it was a Batman movie. I was tone deaf and just liked seeing Batman and Catwoman and the Penguin do cool and crazy stuff. I rediscovered it as an adolescent and it has stuck with ever since growing and growing in personal esteem the more I watch it. At first I loved it for being weird. Then I started to chew on it, mull it over and think about what it’s actually saying. It’s around this time I found the film had a devoted fanbase – a fanbase that has become more vocal over time.
Me too!
And as a matter of fact, I realized a few years back that this is actually a Christmas movie.. that the feeling of the season is oddly within. the musical score! the scenery! And even Max Schrek with his odd similarity to Donald Trump.. it all makes this movie amazing in all ways..
Batman Returns was released on June 19, 1992.
It grossed $266.8 million worldwide on a budget of $80 million and received mostly positive reviews.
This film has more to offer than what we all remembered.. We can now have a renewed appreciation for the movie after all this time.. all these Christmases..
CATWOMAN with her many lives.. the Penguin with his odd parents who didn’t want him (Pee Wee Herman was the dad!!) …. the scenery of snow and coldness that solidified Tim Burton’s sequel to the original 1989 film was amazing, as I look back..
It goes perfectly fine compared against the landscape of our modern times.. Burton and Elfman’s score can be thanked for that, along with Keaton’s Batman and Pfeifer’s Woman who plays the Cat.
As the film ends, as Catwoman stands tall, it gives us that melodramatic feeling of victory and an “Empire strikes back” feeling.. So much so that we wish Burton would have directed Batman 3 without the nippled suit.. without Mr Freeze.. without the rest of the awfulness that ensued throughout the rest of the 1990s…
Batman and BATMAN RETURNS…?
Greatness personified…
It is as charming now as it was then, as miserable and also equally amazing.
Some out there only think DIE HARD was a great movie for the season..Sure, that is set against the back drop of Christmas, too.. But something else magical resides in BATMAN RETURNS.
So re-discover 1992’s hit BATMAN RETURNS. Released in the month of June so many years ago….and since then a reason for the season..