Oh, and it also introduces Robin as a 12-year-old homeless orphan kid that knows martial arts. This leads to the rather lackluster main plotline about Penguin and Catwoman murdering the wealthiest men in Gotham (and framing the Batman while doing it) in an attempt to collect secret “Raven” statues, which ultimately leads to a Christmas Eve Agatha Christie-esque visit to Wayne Manor in the bizarre hope of finding buried treasure hidden (unbeknownst to Bruce) in the Batcave. He’s also uncovering the secret history of the Waynes. The story is also haphazardly about Bruce Wayne trying to protect the homeless, who are about to get Giuliani’d in Gotham’s Central Park equivalent. Bruce Wayne (and even Vicki Vale) is far more the protagonist than he ended up being in the finished film, and one who has developed a strict “no kill” policy. However, Batman II further attempted to bring the title character back to his comic book roots.

Her costume is described as literal “bondage” gear, and she has no qualms about massacring large groups of men with assault rifles or her own claws. The Penguin is a small time criminal with a penchant for birds-which he often uses as weapons with Hitchcock-inspired attack pigeons-and Selina Kyle is the highly sexualized vamp that she’s usually portrayed as in the comics, albeit turned up to 11. The villains were psychotic and violent, but they were not freaks in that patented Tim Burton way. Sure, one bad guy is dressed like a dastardly Santa Claus, but instead of having a comical toy gag like the Penguin’s umbrellas in the final film, evil Santa is sporting an AK-47 and mowing down police officers with the kind of stylized grittiness associated with the first Batman movie.īatman II might have been an interesting film since it would have carried over many more of the elements from the 1989 experience that people loved. Batman, and the story feels like a direct expansion of what came before: Bruce Wayne is still dating Kim Basinger’s Vicki Vale and is even engaged to her by the end, and he is fighting criminals of the same cartoon-noir decadence as Jack Nicholson’s Joker. While it was certainly Hamm’s conceit to set the Batman sequel in the doldrums of Holiday Cheer, the blanket of snow and Christmas wreaths were more a decorative ornamentation around St.

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