Daniel Cruse is a writer at Collider who focuses on crime films, classic movies, action, martial arts, and horror cinema.
Tim Burton hasn't made many sequels over his career. This month, a long-gestating sequel to Beetlejuice, his 1988 classic, hit theaters. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is being praised as a return to form of sorts for a director whose recent feature films strayed from the imaginatively strange heights that fans came to expect. But Burton's other high-profile sequel wasn't met with such a warm reception.
One group that was particularly unhappy were Warner Bros.' corporate sponsors. The movie was not intended by Burton to be explicitly family-friendly, but the marketing campaign, especially its corporate tie-ins, really leaned into Batman Returns being a film for children. Most of the corporate sponsors had not seen a script for the movie, let alone the final film, and were unaware of how strange it was.
'Batman Returns' Dark Tone Was Controversial, But It's Why the Movie Worked Close Batman Returns is a movie that is primarily driven by the antagonists. Burton crafted a story that is far more interested in the villains than Batman himself, and this results in a tonal shift to a much darker, more depraved tone.
Burton examines how the trauma, isolation, and vast wealth circling Wayne's life can be distorted into villainy. The Penguin shares his tragic loss of his parents, Catwoman is a twisted, mirror-image of his Batman persona, and Max Shreck serves as an evil version of Wayne's rich, public persona on display.
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