8. Batman Returns
Ive often looked at the Tim Burton Batman movies less as Batman stories and more as Tim Burton stories featuring a guy in a Batsuit. Batman Returns makes this especially clear. The main perpetrators of this are the villains. First, the Penguin. In the comics and cheesy 60s Batman TV show, the character is known as the gentleman crime boss with a penchant for birds and umbrellas. Well, he still has these things in Batman Returns, but now he also happens to be a deformed human/bird mutant with flippers for his hands and black ooze for blood. Oh, and did I mention he has an army of carnival freaks and actual penguins with rockets on their backs? A far cry from the squawking Burgess Meredith. Then theres Catwoman, who in the comics is a jewelry thief and Batmans booty call. Now, a secretary who was killed by her boss and brought back to life by alley-cats (also making her psychotic), she sets off on a mission of revenge against her boss, while also having a brief fling billionaire Bruce Wayne. Oh yeah, she also has nine lives now, preventing her from dying right away. Well, if she had been in Batman and Robin, something tells me she would have used up the rest of her lives to end the misery. The final problem this film has: this is not so much a Batman film and more of just a Tim Burton film featuring the Caped Crusader. Oh, he provides action scenes aplenty, but if youre looking for intricate character development for Bruce Wayne, best look somewhere else.