Batman Returns (1992): Birth Of The Penguin/Official Main Titles - [REMASTERED] - [HD]
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- This was the official Remastered high-definition - [HD] - "The Birth Of The Penguin" Prologue" and the "Main Opening Titles" in [DVD QUALITY], from the year 1992-sequel's beloved-classic Action/Adventure-Superhero- second blockbuster installment, of the "Burton/Schumacher"- "Batman" merchandise/videogame series/comicbook series/jr. and sr. novels/film series/franchise:
"Batman Returns." (1992).
MOVIE SYNOPSIS/PLOTLINES:
1.) Having defeated the Joker, Batman now faces the Penguin - a warped and deformed individual who is intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Crooked businessman Max Schreck is coerced into helping him become Mayor of Gotham and they both attempt to expose Batman in a different light. Earlier however, Selina Kyle, Max's secretary, is thrown from the top of a building and is transformed into Catwoman - a mysterious figure who has the same personality disorder as Batman. Batman must attempt to clear his name, all the time deciding just what must be done with the Catwoman.
2.) In this, the second Batman movie, megalomaniac businessman Max Shreck sets a plot against Gotham City in motion. He is joined by Penguin, a deformed and rather deranged man abandoned at birth by respectable parents. Penguin, backed by hoodlums and real penguins, runs for mayor. The plot is further complicated by Selena, a wronged secretary who transforms into Catwoman, a villain with mixed motives.
3.) Gotham City faces two monstrous criminal menaces: the bizarre, sinister Penguin and the slinky, mysterious Catwoman. Can Batman battle two formidable foes at once? Especially when one wants to be mayor and the other is romantically attracted to Gotham's hero?
* 4.) After successfully defeating the Joker, the Dark Knight, known as Batman helps to keep Gotham City a safe place. Beneath the city in the sewers, another villain emerges. Known as the Penguin, he joins up with Max Shreck and targets the position of new mayor. Whilst Batman tries to uncover the truth behind the Penguin, the Catwoman also emerges with her own agenda in mind, but not without mixed feelings.
MOVIE SYNOPSIS/PLOTLINES:
1.) Gotham City: dark, dangerous, 'protected' only by a mostly corrupt police department. Despite the best efforts of D.A. Harvey Dent and police commissioner Jim Gordon, the city becomes increasingly unsafe...until a Dark Knight arises. We all know criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot...so his disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. He becomes a bat. Enter Vicky Vale, a prize-winning photo journalist who wants to uncover the secret of the mysterious "bat-man". And enter Jack Napier, one-time enforcer for Boss Grissom, horribly disfigured after a firefight in a chemical factory...who, devoid of the last vestiges of sanity, seizes control of Gotham's underworld as the psychotic, unpredictable Clown Prince of Crime...the Joker. Gotham's only hope, it seems, lies in this dark, brooding vigilante. And just how does billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne fit into all of this?
2.) After a young boy witnesses his parents' murder on the streets of Gotham City, he grows up to become the Batman - a mysterious figure in the eyes of Gotham's citizens - who takes crime-fighting into his own hands. He first emerges out of the shadows when the Joker appears - a horribly disfigured individual who is out for revenge on his former employer and generally likes to have a good time.
* 3.) In Gotham City, a dark knight known as Batman helps to defeat evil and keep the city's citizens safe. When Jack Napier is transformed into the evil, Joker, he promises to take over Gotham City it is up to Batman to stop him in his tracks before it is too late.
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Tim Burton puts "goth" into Gotham City
It’s my favourite interpretation of Gotham City, Batman Arkham City also did a great job
kek
No shit
[drum roll]
Yes it almost looks victorian at the start, gothic mansion, fur coats, 🧐monocles, servants, old fashioned prams, fireplaces. You'd assume it was set in the 19th century.
Rest In Peace Paul Reubens. August 27, 1952-July 30, 2023 he was great in Batman Returns as The Penguin’s father.
Did he even speak? I guess he did great standing around and walking to the sewer?
He didn't really do anything
As a kid, I never noticed that was Pee Wee Herman lol
I believe he also played in Gotham as that Penguin's long lost biological father. I think.
I didn't knowed that Diane Salinger play in two movies of Tim Burton before She play Queen Bansheera in Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue
Am I the only one who truly felt bad for Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot?
No, you aren't. I also pity him because he grew up in a zoo and was never touched by a woman.
I too always felt bad for him as well. Sad life, great villain. But in the end you kinda just see it as a person who had a very hard life. Feel bad for him when he dies at the end. Amazing movie.
They threw him in the river because he killed their cat in the cage.
That was just the final straw. They were just looking for a reason.
That is sooo heartbreaking knowing your own parents had bandoned you. I like this penguin very much. I even saved this clip Lol. And really like the idea of animals raising human child just like Mowgli.
God, what a score. The choir is haunting and deepening. It truly is an incredible choir. Bless Danny Elfman.
CoolNerd lll one of my all time favorite scores
I couldn´t agree more...
Such an iconic theme song now.
It truly conveys the feeling of being forced to do something terrible for a probable greater good.
He's the best ever. I always say there's a reason this and edward scissorhands were my two obsessions as a kid. Elfman and burton make my kind of look, feel and sound. I remember watching this in the theater as a kid in disbelief. Didn't want to leave the theater, I wanted to watch it again.
Fun fact: Paul Reubens aka Pee Wee Herman who played Penguin's dad also played him in the Gotham TV series, and did a magnificent job in both roles might I add.
Thats paul rubens aka pee wee herman
i thought they looked similar
Paul Ruebens. The guy on Gotham was probably a kid when this was released almost 30 years ago
@@KevinMuller5 he meant penguin's dad in gotham not penguin
Not to give you a hard time , you gonna do a fun fact, be sure to know the actor’s name who is already well known.
This film's opening is so unsettling. We never actually see what the baby looks like so we're thinking about the scariest a baby could look but at the same time we feel sorry for the baby as it's just thrown away to float down a freezing river. All on Christmas of all days
Thanks for your cut and paste Rosemary's baby insight/comment that everyone else online already said.
Who's RosemarY?
Penguin dad was an huge "jerkoff " for doing that
@@usualblokeluke Rosemary's Baby is the name of an old film.
@@dookcook3327 wrong movie dumbass...
That whole Birth Of A Penguin prologue is a gem of exposition. Just narrated by the power of pure visuals and masterful orchestration telling the whole story.
Huh?
The most twisted and creepyest Batman movie ever made.
I love this movie and everything, but every film in the Nolan saga (except for Dark Knight Raises) is darker and more messed up than this one.
The Nolan movies can't even compare, they are just crime dramas. This movie is genuinely twisted and insane. A deformed child is thrown into the sewers, a crazed deformed man wants to drown all of the newborns of Gotham in the sewers, Catwoman's many sexual innuendos and weird behavior as if she's a cat in heat, the pretty hardcore violence.
@@UA-camCX9 yeah, batman's one rule is do not kill
@@hckingking this batman movie gave me night mares as a child it was very disturbing
That's Tim Burton for ya
This is imo the best Batman movie. It's dark, gritty and haunting just like the comics were meant to be.
YEAH. They again didnt hit the success with the new movie... Long time ago producents were A LOT smarter.
I agree! This is my favorite Batman movie as well 🦋😊🖤🎥
@@iioo187 Not when it came to comic book movies. As Superman 3-4 and the Schumacher Batman proved.
@andrion waser Agreed about the army thing, and I'll add that the circus thing is stepping onto Joker's territory. But Penguin in this movie also resents the rich b/c he was denied by his own parents. The mutant half-bird design was pulled off well by the 90s animated series, and fans were actually disappointed when he was later redesigned to look like a fat Paul Reubens.
Depends on the comics you read.. there was a lot of spanking in the 50’s and 60’s
Truly a masterpiece. This opening is one of the best of any film, ever.
I completely agree. Off the scale x
I saw you saying that same thing of Citizen Kane, Godfather part 1 & 2, Dirty Harry, allmost all of Leone's and Kubricks films, Raging Bull, Taxi driver, Goodfellas, Deer hunter, Searchers, Vertigo, Rear Window, Shadow of doubt, Psyko, North by northwest, Star wars and Indiana Jones trilogy, Die Hard, Conan the Barbarian, Terminator 1 & 2, Alien & Aliens, Rocky, Rambo and Disney's Fantasia.
Stop talking shit!
pdw tAaOS i agree ! 😀
yep loved the intro, I can watch the bats come flying through the sewers for ever, fantastic musical composition.
1:40 that shot ALONE is pure Tim Burton. Dark, gothic, snowing and Danny Elfman opera score.
That’s the beauty of this movie? Man. To this day my favorite superhero movie. Maybe my favorite movie ever. The music, the atmosphere... it wasn’t afraid to push it.
John Doe too bad Warner Bros. and close minded parents didn’t see it that way as they didn’t want Burton back for Batman Forever😞 All because, as Tim Burton put it “because my film didn’t sell happy-meal toys” whatever that means.
yeah alot ppl don't get it. burton is going to make his own version.
that's the penguin and catwoman at the start, then it cuts to a burton movie - a land of fantasy and imagination. it was never going to be a straightforwards batman film. burton always makes weird movies.
penguins down a sewer = fantasy.
Why DID the people of Gotham City opt to make so many of their buildings gothic looking anyway? I wouldn't want to live in a city that had a dark and depressing feel to it.
I remember watching this as a kid and being impacted by the scene. The music, the dark atmosphere, and the story it tells. A very effective opening. I just had to come back to relive the experience
Me too. I was all of 5 seeing this in the theater. Came out of it wanting to be Cobblepot's buddy (even though I am a first-born son LOL). Also it was awesome to see my other childhood pal, Pee Wee Herman as Penguin's dad!
This Movie, Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands. Is it me, or does Tim Burton have a thing for ruined christmas-times?
+mrbrockpeters or maybe he just likes showing the twisted side of the holidays
Nightmare before Christmas isn't from Tim Burton though, it's from Henry Selick.. we should start giving that guy some credit xD
Vasilios Grammatidis Hate being a geek, but Burton was still author of the Movie. But yeah, more cred to Selick. It takes a cool man to take the time to make someones elses vision reality.
Yeah i didn't want to descredit anyone but i imagine it "hurts" for Henry Selick because everyone mentions the movie as Tim Burton's creation and they never mention him. If we placed ourself in Selick's shoes and saw everyone praising only Tim Burton for it.. y'know that would suck, that's why i said it haha :D
mrbrockpeters Well, I don’t find that funny at all.
The ‘Merry Christmas’ before throwing a child into a river- I love this movie.
Some people think the couple that they said marry Christmas too was Thomas and Martha Wayne with baby Bruce
@@alexmason2659 that I would accept as a theory
@@alexmason2659 Doesn't seem too far fetched.
@@ambush_akula5261 I mean I never fully believed it just thought it was an awesome theory
@@minihalkoja590 yeah I just thought it was an awesome theory
This scene is one reason this sequel is a better film than the original. The 89 movie is just a typical Hollywood opening. This scene actually tells a backstory while at the same time setting up the entire premise of the movie. In this one scene, the audience understands why the Penguin is the way that he is.
The villain of the first movie is the Joker. Telling a backstory is slander to the character. What little origin they did give him was generous.
Prefer the original to this one.
This isn’t a sequel, this is a stand alone film that takes place in a completely different universe compared to the 89 batman. More like fantasy film than a superhero film
@@jackandrews7878 this movie does stand on its own, but it is a sequel. The only difference is...... Burton had complete control over it. They even demoted the producers from the first one to executive producers. They wanted Burton to comeback so badly they told him he could make a Burton movie, with batman. That's why the visuals on this one is alot darker and weirder, even the penguin took on a completely dark tone, and came out so much different than anything from the comics. I like it, I think it's cool as hell.
@@RahulPatel-og2ke Tim Burton gave Joker more backstory than Penguin. We actually got to see the former before he got established as a supervillain. Plus, the OP never said that the Joker should've gotten the intro. Bruce Wayne's past could've been shown at the beginning of the '89 film.
You know who the real hero of this movie is?
Danny Elfman. Am I right?
Astonishing score.
Indeed, especially the xylophone, brass and bells and the tuba and the oboe, It really is a signature mark of Tim Burton films.
What always amazes me is before Tim Burton asked Danny Elfman if he wanted to score Pee Wees Big Adventure he had never done scoring or film composition. He was in bands yes but he quite literally had never written a soundtrack before, he felt way out of his depth but the guy turned out to just be naturally incredible at it. Thank christ Tim Burton decided to put faith in him otherwise we would have probably been deprived of one of the most talented composers in cinema.
Oingo Bongo
Well said Tim.
@@AbrahamLincoln4 especially from the opera at 1:40! Man Danny Elfman is the best ever Music composer
One of the greatest opening's and Villan Introduction's of all time
Thank you Tim Burton rise and shine
Thank you Danny Elfman rise and shine
Thank you Danny DeVito rise and shine
@@wiltandblush Yeah
Know what? Screw it. This is best batman movie.
It's the only one that gets the tone of what I feel batman should be perfectly right. It's dark and gothic but still fantastical and kinda campy. This is what I feel batman movies should be. It's about a guy that dresses up a bat. It doesn't need to be super serious or edgy. It's just needs to be gothy and fun, which is what this film is.
I seriously couldn’t agree more. I LOVE this interpretation of the Batman universe, brings out the inner nostalgia.
Kayleigh Brown I'd say Burton did a better job with the first Batman movie. This feels more like a standard Tim Burton movie that just happens to have Batman in it. While I don't think that this is a bad movie, it's obvious that Burton had too much creative freedom and had he been more restricted in what he could do like he was in the first film, this movie might have been better.
@@mrblobby7864 I see this film as Burton's VERTIGO: a mainstream studio film on the surface that is, in outcome, a deeply personal film. It may be the best film Burton's made. Or in this opening's case, a twisted horror variation of CITIZEN KANE (and maybe a bit of THE THIRD MAN in those sewer shots).
In many ways, I take it more as an expressionist horror film, right down to its constant allusions to things like CALIGARI.
Absolutely right. If I want to to watch Heat reimagined as a Comic book film, I will watch the Dark knight. I really liked Heath Ledger, but he only got the acclaim because he died.
Same
I prefer this than the first Batman. The is one of the best sequels ever filmed.
@Jeff Isaacson In some ways, this scene came before the events of the first film so this scene is probably taking place before Jack Napier came to Gotham City which means before he became the Joker.
I would still defend the 1989 original as the better film. This one is too stuffed full of villains and batman is hardly in it. In the original its was personal too for Bruce in this his motivation is just that he doesn't like criminals. It did like the chemistry between Batman and Catwoman but it just gets overwhelmed by all the goofy Tim Burton circus show nonsense like the penguin having an umbrella that flies, or coming up from the ground in whats meant to be a threatening scene in a giant yellow duck. Then you've got the miniature train kidnapping all the children and the secret underground army of penguins. Its just absurd and it came across to me as laughable. Also how can the penguin speak perfect English if he was raised by penguins
@@MiddleWarrior3539 Actually, this scene here of the Penguin's parents dumping him in the sewer is considered the first film which was a flashback on when the Penguin was born and after the opening credits, it jumped to the present year saying "Gotham City 33 Years Later."
@@MiddleWarrior3539 I understand that. Also yes, "Batman" and "Batman Returns" are sequels to each other where the film could at least take place one month after the Joker died which means "Batman" and "Batman Returns" are the 33rd year.
@@lw3646
I think that while the penguin was indeed raised by penguins as an infant as a young man he joined a freak show circus where presumably he adopted his linguistic abilities.
Since the day he was born, Penguin never had a chance in life. His own parents neglected him and literally treated him like an animal. It’s their fault that Penguin became a monster on the inside
That's the intention of the movie this film goes by the idea Batman Catwoman and Penguin are outcasts because society has made them that way and the real evil is normal people.
@@boomstickcritique902 Correct.
@@boomstickcritique902 so true
I mean he killed a cat 🐈
So what if he killed a cat? They locked him in a cage and for all intents and purposes were starving him since there's no way to put food in that cage. Anyone who is locked up for no good reason grows contemptuous of the person that did it, and would have an extreme response like that - BECAUSE THEY'RE LOCKED IN A FUCKING CAGE 🙄
Two things have bothered me since seeing this movie as child, 1) what the fuck were penguins doing in gotham sewers and 2) penguin was only 33 wtf.
His Dudeness My theory: He spent only small amount of his childhood with the penguins. He spent the rest with the circus,maybe when around 7-teenage. There he was exposed with stimuli,maybe gaining fondness of Victorian fashion and umbrellas,and eventually ran back to the sewer, silently educating himself even further.
They weren't in the sewers. They were in the Arctic World penguin enclosure at the Gotham Zoo, which (or so the movie seems to imply) is connected somehow to the sewers or the storm drain system. Doesn't make much sense from a real-world perspective, I admit, but hey, it's Tim Burton; a lot of his stuff is like that.
Max told Bruce Wayne they could have been bunk buddies at school........making him only supposed to be 33 as well?!
Not a lot of people gets the "Who raised Penguin?" point.
He wasn't raised with the Penguins, he spent his whole life with the circus. The penguins animals we're part of the Red Circus Triangle Gang at that time, probably. When they go to feed the animals, they found Penguin, and educated him across the years (Also, used him as a Circus Show). Across the years, Penguin make himself "The Boss" of the Gang, and used them to execute his plans across his life (Killing Children across USA, not Only Gotham, and disappearing always). This is explained when Batman finds the Red Circus Triangle Gang Files on the BatComputer. It's not implied directly that Penguin Kidnapped and Killed those children himself...But yeah, his "Kill the first born sons of Gotham" confirms that his favorite victims are Childens.
The movie pretty much confirms all of this across the film, but nobody paid atention to this, somehow. The 90% of people ACTUALLY believes that Penguin was raised by Penguins his whole life LMAO.
@@JhonJanorNapier The novelization of the movie also implies that Penguin killed his parents before events in Batman Returns
You can tell Tim burton had more control over this film. The first one had dark and Tim burton moments but felt like there was something holding it back for its full potential. In this movie, Tim burton definitely has more control. It's darker, creepier, etc. love this movie.
Spoonful for You I agree ..my fav of this series
The only way he'd comeback is if they let him make a full on Burton film. With Elfman composing stuff in the same key as usual. Don't get me wrong I love Tim Burton movies most of the time and I think Elfman is talented, it's just you can always tell it's him composing movie themes.
It worked as a Burton film. For Batman? Not really to me.
@@maxfrankow1238 That’s what makes this movie better than the first in my opinion, you can feel more of Burton’s style in this film. Plus it has aged better
2:23 I like that the mother has a sort of- for lack of a better word- horrified expression on her face after they drop the baby into the water. It’s like she has a ‘what have I done?’ moment for her, like, even on a subtle level her mother instincts tells her to protect her baby. It’s subtle, but still a nice detail.
The father has a similar expression, though.
@@istinkofpoobut5602 yeah the dad definitely had a kind of expression that seemed to give off a how could we do this to our own son? kind of vibe
If you are here because you searched for this epic masterpiece, it means that you are a person of a high quality. Not a fanboy, who eats everything they throw at him. But a true man of culture. Congratulations. And my deepest hatts off to tim burton, danny elfman, and this weird, and obscure dream, which is my all time favourite movie. Although, i always loved this movie, there was a time, when i was thinking that peak of a batman movie would be, if the dark knight was made with tim burton's visuals, and danny elfman's music. But now i realised, that burton needs to be a byt campy. Bcz burton is not for everyone. That bein said, not for people, who need to have everything explained. That's why the amount of campiness is literally needed. Because, this story is visually told. It wants you to stop thinking, and enjoy the mood. If it would be superrealistic and serious like nolan, it would destroy the mood. And bcz of that mood, i enjoy this masterpiece every christmas. And while a beutiful, white, snowy, moody christmas is more of a fairytale thing in the real life, to dive into burton's christmas gotham, is like a true blessing. These two men and their work combined, are one of the things, that made me realise how i love snow, winter, and christmas. And also, to enjoy everything beutiful in life.
Yes Sir!
Penguins theme is so haunting and tragic. Danny Elfmen is a genius of music scoring.
That poor baby...and that poor cat!!!
C. Evans180 So he always had a love/hate thing with cats!
@@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427 I think you're right: looking back, that may have been deliberate foreshadowing.
God I miss the 90’s
Me too the best time
Rideshare Talkshow me too.
When real art was still produced.
This movie made me love Batman. Still the best Batman movie in my opinion.
No cats were harmed in the making of this video.
Or penguins
Hahaha
Or bats 😉
And only 3 human babies were drowned.
The couple at @1:55 could possibly be Bruce Wayne's parents Thomas and Martha Wayne walking Bruce past Oswalds parents in the snow! Does anyone else have that same assumption?
No.
Danny Elfman is a musical genius with his scores. Very haunting yet immersive
I really want more of these vibes for batman movies. these days, it's too much focus on action and being serious and making batman look cool
I totally agree with you, we can tell a dark and serious story by implementing magical and architectural elements (gothic art deco for example) coming out of the real world while remaining credible thanks to the staging and the rhythm :) after the realistic delirium à la Nolan doesn't bother me but we had that for a while (2005-2012 but these dates have passed) so instead of doing Nolan again, it's better to move on to something else, for example the artistic direction burlesque by Tim Burton or that of Rocksteady with the Arkham games which plunges into the surreal real and the pure fantastic fairy tale by adding poetry in the staging rendering the iconography of the sets, characters and history stronger more by taking liberties with them. Where was it a shame on Warner's part not to have given Tim Burton the opportunity to make a third film where, in my opinion, we would have been entitled to a Batman 3 which could have been a surreal madness, a huge cartoon barbaric and psychoanalytical with the main villain, I don't know, the Scarecrow, Poison Ivy or Mr. Freeze. Batman 3, with a free and motivated Burton in command, could have been even more monstrous, even more awesome than Batman Returns.
At the time, when Warner Bros was looking for another director for The Batman before Matt Reeves, I was so hoping that it would be Guillermo Del Toro who would take over because the latter would have been the worthy successor to Tim Burton as far as burlesque is concerned and also he knows how to do dark and serious noir stories and fairy tales for adults and it would have been moving and spectacular to see a Batman movie directed by Del Toro ^^
I wish they would make a new Spawn film, but done right
If you want a darker themed batman. Then just go find Tim Burton
Well if you haven't played the first Lego Batman, then you could get those vibes from it.
Probably won’t ever happen again. Burton is one of a kind. I doubt there will ever be another Tim Burton in our lifetime
Without a doubt this penguin (and perhaps the comic books as well its been a while since I read any) has easily one of the most tragic back stories ever put to media
Not so, actually - his official origin involves him being bullied a lot as a child; he became the Penguin because that's what his childhood tormentors used to call him.
@@Psycopathicus true.this is there own version
@@Psycopathicus
I feel like being abandoned by your own parents and then trying to kill you by plunging you in a freezing river and then as a teenager having to join a freak show is more tragic than some childhood bullying…just my opinion though.
@@henrylivingstone2971 Well, they're both pretty tragic in their own way, really - one is more 'real world' tragic, and one is more, um... Burton-y tragic. No point in playing 'which is worse' - tragic is tragic, either way.
@@Psycopathicus
Well it might not be as usual in our times but people trying to murder their disabled children was pretty common all the way into the early twentieth century. So I feel like while they are both tragic, the fact that your parents tried to kill you after just a few days of your birth is more tragic than being teased by school mates.
RIP Paul Reubens
I dunno if it’s ever been confirmed but I like to think the other couple with the stroller that the cobblepots pass by are the Wayne’s. Look at the symbolism. Bruce in the angelic stroller, and Oswald in the dark, severe one. It works!!!
That is my same headcanon.
@@sandradermark8463 I thought I was the only one...
Nothing like taking your baby on a walk in the middle of a cold snow packed night lol
RIP Paul Pee Wee Herman Reubens Thank you for the Years Of TV And Movies 😢
Particularly the music gives me goosebumps
My all time favourite movie. Tim Burton's Batman Returns is truly the most darkest and deepest superhero movie ever made :D
The Tim Burton Batman films helped define the modern superhero movies, not to mention they inspired the DCAU. I love that guy, dark themes and all
Jungoguy Me too
BUT THEY ARE NOT SYMMETRICAL
@ProMonarchyGenius watchmen
How can the penguin speak English perfectly when he's raised as a baby by penguins?
R.I.P. Paul Reubens
Thomas and Martha Wayne 1:55 lol jk it would've been cool tho
i'll consider it canon
NightIMarEx1 It's kinda strange I always thought that the Penguin was at least 10 or 15 years older than Batman.
Κωνσταντίνος Ρόδης Bruce Wayne looks in his 30s in Burton movie
Κωνσταντίνος Ρόδης in this movie it is said by Max that they are about the same age
Fun fact: Burgess Meredith (the actor who played penguin in the 1966 batman show) was offered to played penguin’s father (Tucker Cobblepot) before Paul Reubens was offered which would have been a tribute to the show. But illness prevented Burgess from appearing so Paul took over the role.
Correct me if I'm wrong but weren't Adam West and Newmar going to play Bruce Waynes Parents and get shot in the beginning of the movie as a symbolic way of killing the past?
1:40 that city scape+ soundtrack= GOOSEBUMPS 😍😍😍😍😍
1:39. that skyline and song sends chills up my spine
It definitely gives off a gothic feel to Gotham City, doesn't it?
Even though this came out in the middle of June, I can gladly say that this is a Christmas movie.
Best score ever
leather face the music is awesome
Just watched Cruella and rewatching this- this is still the best opening to an origin story of a villain such as the 🐧 Penguin. No narration required, haunting score and masterful direction. More memorable! ❄️
Extremely well done, the music, the timing, everything.
RIP Paul❤
Rest in Peace Paul Reubens 🕊️
"You didn't invite me, so I CRASHED!!"
While in a giant yellow duck wielding an umbrella that also flies....
I absolutely LOVE this intro. One of my favourites!
That dark, low, droning organ bass note at the very start still chills me.
1:55 Baby Wayne meets baby Cobblepot
This is a great film, but it scared me alot when I saw this as a kid.
When I was around 11 my brother was really getting into Batman and finally we decided to watch the movie and to me it was like something out of a nightmare and another reason to be afraid of the circus.
I concur. You know what always got me when I was a kid? The way he fell when he died. And then that shot of his face in the water afterwards. I couldn't watch that for years.
@@marsha-madness-super-badness exactly I never felt so bad for the bad guys and that’s what I love about Batman, those villains arent just maniacs for no reason.
This man was abandoned by his parents and thrown into the sewers where he was raised by birds.
@@pepijn23 Right... But I never actually felt bad for him, those shots just scared me. That dude was stealing kids. Even if it were a real person I'd sympathize with what happened to him but still want him dead if he went on to ruin someone else's childhood.
Now that you mention it Batman did have interesting villains. The one that stuck with me was Tim Drake in "Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker" 😔.
The first batman film I saw. Truly amazing
The first one for me too
I love how Burton is telling Penguin's origin story without dialogue, unlike Nolan who loves to explain everything.
Art Trivia This shit was So Classic & Great..my fav Batman movie of this series..I didn't like Cheesy Light hearted Batman Forever too much
Visual storytelling is and has always been superior.
Yes, still one of my Top 10 Movies ever, after all these years. If one gets past the campiness, the psychological study of the three main characters is a masterpiece.
MarciCow
This movie isn't campy at all
As someone who abhors the more recent Batman movies and feels they’ve sucked the life out of the Joker in these latest films, I look at this Tim Burton film and feel that he truly understood what Batman is all about and knew how to portray him and his dark world extremely effectively.
Yeah but you're wrong.
Danny Devito nailed it.
Notice how the children's choir erupts into a playful "la-la-la" style while the parents push Penguin in the baby stroller, almost symbolizing what a day out with the "family" would be for young Penguin as an infant, had he been born normal, on a sunny day but because he isn't normal and it's in the middle of the night the themes are dark and melancholy and ultimately sinister in their intent. Also notice the motif when the parents reach the top of the bridge over the bubbling brook and the children's choir reaches an almost sudden response of "OH! OH!" which could be translated as "NO! NO!" - much like in opera - with the children's choir pleading with the parents to not do what they've ultimately set out to do, which is murder their child. Danny Elfman is a master composer and it's a shame that he hasn't won an Academy Award yet. His day is coming.
chad stephens and did you here penguin screaming in that part,like "Eck,ECK!!" in his inhuman voice. And notice that he didnt cry as he flow through the sewer system. Maybe in that time, penguin has prematurely grew into a man to cope with his dark and hard life ahead....
He's an incredible composer. His Spiderman theme is legendary
chad stephens The notion that the choir was pleading with the parents scared the hell out of me. I'd never thought of that before.
That is one reason why this song haunts me... I can't describe why I love this song.... I'm subbing to you due to your review
To be fair, there’s a “la la” or an “oh oh” in, like, every other piece he’s done lol
Elfman's Batman theme is the definitive one. Zimmer had a good crack at replacing it, but to me every time I think of Batman it's the Elfman theme that pops up in my head.
Me too. Elfman is a terrific composer.
Rip Paul Reubens
Batman Returns is definitely my favorite film of the old Burton/Schumacher series. There are amazing performances and some good writing to be seen in this movie. Even though the Penguin and Catwoman in this are nothing like the characters in the actual comics, the villainous performances of Danny DeVito and Michelle Pfeiffer are amazing and, IMO, don't get the praise they deserve as they both did just as good of a job as the widely-beloved Nicholson version of the Joker. The haunting music, and the dark visuals... man, this is how you do a kickass opening sequence.
I would have preferred Morgan Edge/Solomon Grundy here.Burtons penguin is closer to that character should have just used him
I wish I could go back in time, and somehow convince WB execs to give Burton his third film.
It would've been neat if Tim Burton stayed on to direct Batman Forever (a title I'd prefer over proposed Batman Continues title) and 2 more Batman movies after 3rd instead of Joel Schumacher.
Part of me wonders if WB is still kicking themselves over the boneheaded decision to dump Burton. Schumacher kind of steered the Batman movie franchise in a direction that didn't really resemble what Burton had in mind.
Had Tim Burton stayed on for Batman Forever and additional Batman movies... My dream cast for that...
Michael Keaton would've certainly reprised his role of Bruce Wayne/Batman.
Pat Hingle would've returned as Commissioner Gordon.
Michael Gouch as Alfred.
I'd have taken Robin Williams as Edward Nygma/Riddler instead of Jim Carrey.
I'd have anticipated Billy Dee Williams reprising the role of Harvey Dent/Two-Face instead of it being recasted to Tommy Lee Jones.
I'd presume Michelle Pfeiffer possibly returning as Selina Kyle/Catwoman in this and another Batman movie.
The role of Dick Grayson/Robin would've been interesting. My top 3 picks would've been either Michael Vitar (from The Sandlot and The Mighty Ducks movies), or Henry Thomas (from E.T.), or maybe a young Joaquin Phoenix. I don't really feel it for Marlon Wayans. Chris O'Donnell is an okay actor. River Phoenix would've been an interesting pick had he lived.
I could've pictured Robert Wuhl returning as Alex Knox. Burton still casting another background character Gossip Gerty to Elizabeth Sanders. Not sure about Kim Basinger reprising her role of Vicki Vale. Also not sure whether Drew Barrymore and Debi Mazar would've appeared in Batman Forever either. I'd imagine Dr. Chase Meridian character coming in later Batman movie.
My dream cast for additional Batman movies after Batman Forever...
Victor Fries/Mr. Freeze... Patrick Stewart (from Star Trek: The Next Generation), hands down, for that role instead of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Barbara/Batgirl... I believe Christina Ricci, hands down, would be a great pick.
Pamela Eisley/Poison Ivy... I could picture either Helena Bonham Carter (Bellatrix from Harry Potter) or Jenna Elfman (from Dharma & Greg sitcom) in that role instead of Uma Thurman.
Bane... I could see a young Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson being an interesting pick.
Scarecrow... I could picture either Brad Dourif or Gary Oldman in that role.
Harley Quinn... I could picture Jennifer Tilly in that role, despite that character not appearing in 1989 film, unless that character is written in to avenge Joker's death and/or as scorned other woman in Joker's life.
So do I buddy. I would've had Burton do six movies with the last one in 2002 just in time for Nolan's Trilogy to start production afterward.
Agree!
Does Burton always have a really dark/Gothic potentially Christmas set movie brewing up his sleeve???
Growing up that's what I'd always liked about his films because I was born that day. I remember when it used to snow during Christmas time...
Remember the Nightmare Before Christmas? Creepy and joyful Christmas mixed in together done by Tim Burton such a genius!!
Not to mention, Corpse Bride, which is a very underrated film
Even as a kid, when the Batman theme kicks in and the characters from DC Comics scene title comes on screen, it brings tears to my eyes.
RIP Paul reubens penguin father
Clever how they let Paul Rubens play the Penguins father also in the Gotham series. R.I.P Paul Ruebens.
Oswalds father reminds me of Gomez Addams. 😂 Fun fact: the actor who plays his father in this movie also played his father in the series of Gotham.
Rest in peace, Paul Reubens.
Tucker Cobblepot = Paul "Pee-wee Herman" Reubens (RIP, you brilliant weirdo)
Esther Cobblepot = Diane Salinger = Simone the Waitress in Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Tim Burton = Directed this and PWBA
Danny Elfman = Scored this and PWBA
R.I. P. Paul Reubens.
As someone who been treated differently, like Penguin for his deformity and me for my autism, I feel bad for Tim Burton's Penguin
I love how the Cobblepot's inexplicably live like late Victorian's despite being in what was roughly 1950's America.
I really like that they put in what sounds like a cry from Penguin at 3:21
I didn't realize the actress that played Oswald's mom is Simone from Pee Wee's Big Adventure. RIP Paul Reubens.
The Origin story of Frank Reynolds
And the Anti Lorax
Lol
Dear Penguin, I regret to inform you that the children will not be attending....Batman.....
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
R.I.P. Paul Reubens (Tucker Cobblepot)
2:39 sends chills down my spine every single time
GOAT Batman movie
One of the greatest openings to a film! The music, the gothic atmosphere, Gotham in the snow. Love it!
It is weird watching something as a kid and then as an adult. I loved it then, and am a bit torn by it now. Guess I'll have to watch the whole thing again.
Why torn?
Best Batman movie ever....
BATMAN RETURNS
Rest In peace Paul Father of Oswald Cobblepot Pee Wee Herman & Cop and
Animal Control 🙏🙏💔💔💔
And this Batman finally returned in the flash movie
Paul Reubens played Cobblepot's dad again in Gotham TV Show
LPguy26 And the Gotham version is crap, being more Joker than Penguin.
@@imaadshahrukh4829 you're entitled to your opinion even though I completely disagree.
@@shadowrev2914 Thanks for respecting my opinion.
@@imaadshahrukh4829 No prob, dude.
@Ruturaj Shiralkar Very funny
I love Batman Returns.
One of my favorite pieces of music.
I believe years after this opening scene, The Penguin would actually take his revenge and murder his parents for abandoning him. Anybody agree that Penguin made his mother and father regret leaving him to die in the sewer with their lives?
Considering all the deaths and property damage he ends up commiting as an adult.... They really should
Given the chance, he’d absolutely do that.
1:56 I like to imagine that those other two people they pass by are Thomas and Martha...
It kinda works as a call forward to a comment someone made to Bruce about how "If things were different You and Cobblepot would have been buddies at boarding school" (which is funny because that is actually true in some continuities)
In the Batman Returns script, it was said that the reason the Penguin/Oswald was born deformed is because of Max Schreck's chemical plant..but, for whatever reason, Tim Burton didn't include it in the movie. It perfectly explains that's why the Penguin wanted revenge on Max Shreck.
Max Shreck is the real villain of the movie..he created both the Penguin and Catwoman. He was also a rival of Bruce Wayne.
But Max and Penguin were supposed to be brothers, Max being the second child, when Penguin was born there would be no power plant... although if there already was a plant in existance, it would belong to Penguins dad.
@@Shortss373 That's not what's in the script. You can look it up online.
The Penguin was already evil and a villain before Max and him both assisted each other, and the Penguin should logically hate Max right from the start of the film, if we're going by your reasoning. The Penguin hated Max because he abandoned him during his time of need, and wasn't single-minded and very passionate in his hate, as he was originally just planning to kidnap Max's son to tie into his original revenge scheme regarding Gotham's first born, more fortunate children.
@@tornadochaser2457 Well, I'm telling you what was in the script but they didn't keep for the film. I will look it up and reply to you again with the link to the script. And the Penguin did hate Max right from the start, which is one of the reasons he was threatening to blackmail Max for all of the evil things Max did. He just used Max because he knew he could, otherwise he could blackmail the hell out of Max.
@@darthtrip7188 He came across indifferent regarding Max when he first met him, and even seemed excited and happy to show off all the things he found that he could blackmail him with. I think if the Penguin hated Max, strongly at least, the film would make it clear in his attitude.
So Pee Wee Herman and Simone eventually got together and had The Penguin.
In an earlier, alternate timeline 👓8-)
Holy shit never even picked that up
@@bigcurtchop Tim Burton directed both of them in his first movie, that's why he got them for this.
Yes, and later Pee Wee met Simka Gravas (friend of the Organ Grinder) and had ANOTHER Penguin 🤣🤣
Must’ve been Lannister-ing it up a bit probably
That other couple must have just dropped off Waylon Jones into the river, before the Cobblepots! Lol.
Good one.
the childhood of the penguin is exualy a sad story
my favourite Batman film. Just had everything going for it. Great soundtrack, dark Tim Burton theme, great cast, forget the foam snow, it was a blast and still is.... "It could be worse, your nose could be gushing blood"!! Keaton made it a classic. Got to love Walken's perfomance in it. Catwoman...... "give is a break lady Our take home is only 90.dollars...haha :)
Imagine Tim Burton made a Batman movie with the Scarecrow as the villain.
RIP Paul Reubens aka Pee-Wee!!
My favorite Batman movie of all time and also my 3rd favorite Christmas movie of all time.