Batman Returns (1992)

By MegaNaught
Contributor Max Minutiae

Release Date: 6/19/1992
Cast
Michael Keaton: Bruce Wayne/Batman
Michelle Pfeiffer: Selina Kyle/Catwoman
Danny DeVito: Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin
Christopher Walken: Max Shreck
Michael Gough: Alfred Pennyworth
Michael Murphy: The Mayor

     When I was a kid and first saw the Tim Burton film Batman Returns in theaters, I thought it was just about Batman continuing to clean up Gotham. On subsequent viewings I realized that Batman Returns was about dealing with trauma. Bruce Wayne dealing with the death of his parents right in front of him by becoming Batman, the Penguin dealing with his deformity and abandonment issues by becoming a "mob boss" (more on that later) and getting revenge on every family in the city that had nothing to do with his lot in life, and lastly with Selina Kyle dealing with her death by not dying and then taking on the attributes of a cat. Oh how wrong I was.