Batman Returns is not as good as you remember it. (spoilers for Batman Returns 1989)

In fact it's awful. As a kid I though I liked it but I went back and rewatched it the other day and could barely finish it. It's pretty sexist, Selina Kyle is presented as pathetic because she doesn't have a husband then she turns into Catwoman and the running gag is that she makes all the men horny. The whole movie is full of pervy "jokes" that are just painful and out of place. Obviously Burton wanted to do the joker again instead of penguin, the movie is full of leftover clown props and imagery (I mean why on earth is the Penguin running the "Clown Gang?"). Half the movie focuses on Walken's villian who doesn't even do anything except for throwing Selina Kyle out a window at the beginning. The plot makes no sense, why does the penguin need to be mayor in the first place? Why would Max Shrek (Walken) even want the Penguin as mayor? And then they just disregard that whole thread like, "nevermind we'll just keep him as a regular villian." The penguin got the blueprint to the batmobile? How? The dialogue is straight cornball. All his henchmen sumersault everywhere they go, because they're clowns I guess. It has that overbearing choral music that Burton uses in all his films. Every scene was over the top stylized with no substance. In fact, it made me rethink all of Tim Burton's movies (Edward, and Nightmare are safe, not sure about the rest). There's roughly a pun a minute. The very first guy that batman fights gets set on fire (looks like he died to me, NOT very batman-like). When Batman reveals his identity he tears his mask in half like it's made of play-do. The whole thing left me feeling a little queasy. I rewatched the first Batman too, but I thought it had a good balance of dramatic and cheesy, not the case here. Anyway... felt like going on a little rant about it. Oh yeah, and there's an attempted rape scene.