This is Tim Burton at his Tim Burtoniest. His eccentric visual style fits this film best, and is the height of his career, IMO.
Not to mention the S&M subtext that Tim Burton somehow managed to get away with. An upper-class couple throws their mutant baby down the sewer, a socio-phobic billionaire dresses up in leather as a flying rodent, a lonely secretary has a mental breakdown and dresses up in leather as a feline, and said grown-up mutant baby freak runs for political office while being backed by a Trump-like business tycoon hungry for more power. What's even weirder, when you consider the content of this film, is that it was aimed at families. It's weird that Warner decided to release this as a summer film. All previous BBFC cuts were finally fully waived in 2009 for the Blu-ray release, and the film upgraded to 15.īatman Returns is a perfect film to watch during the holiday season as the winter/Christmas atmosphere that Burton creates for Gotham City is wonderful. The resulting cuts meant that the audio commentary was dropped from the UK release (probably because it would have been out of sync), although it is still mistakenly advertised as present on the DVD packaging.
Various extra features being rated 15 caused the overall category of the DVD to be 15. The BBFC downgraded the certificate back to the original 12 certificate (which was not possible in 1992, when the 12 certificate was cinema only), and waived the cuts to the chain-sticks scene, but the aerosol in the microwave scene remained cut on the grounds that it was a potentially dangerous imitable technique. In 2005, the film was resubmitted for the special edition DVD release. These cuts also applied to all pre-2005 VHS and DVD releases.
One cut was of a clown swinging nunchakus, the other was of Catwoman putting some spray-paint cans in a microwave to start an explosion at a department store. In the UK the film was cut by 9 seconds at its cinema release.
0 kommentar(er)
