Batman Returns: The Penguin (Danny DeVito)

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The Kyle/Schreck incident ends with them blowing up the cooling system. That's why Penguin says that "the heat's getting to me". It's not very clear, but apparantly it's more apparent in the novel.

This film is terrible, I might add. An utter mess from start to finish.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/19/2007 06:26PM by Matt.

It's not Drowning, he's dead before he gets submerged by the penguins.

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This film is terrible, I might add. An utter mess from start to finish.

I'm not going to argue too much, but I watched it recently and got a certain amount of camp enjoyment from it. It's certainly not a patch on the first one, and isn't one of Burton's career highlights, but Pfeiffer and Walken are both solid, and DeVito isn't too bad either.
I think the reason it doesn't hang together very well as a film is that the power station / Penguin for Mayor plot is weak. Even more critically though, I don't think Batman is all that impressive in this installment. He gets overshadowed by the villains and Keaton doesn't seem particularly engaged at any point.

Oh, there are many reasons why it fails. I watched it last night on TV. I tried to like it, but it's so damn stupid and self-indulgent. I even posted a blog entry on it.

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It's not Drowning, he's dead before he gets submerged by the penguins.

Ah, but what the description says that "often a character is likely to already be dead by the time they hit the water, but if a corpse ends up immersed, their death will still appear in this category."

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/19/2007 11:56PM by Matt.

I do like the city works ceremonialism of the Penguin's send-off in this film. It's worth noting, however, that we know very little about these odd penguin escorts, and that therefore this ending certainly leaves open the possibility that the penguin--or something like him--will one day return.

I think the flim is a masterpeace most of just Don't understand it.

It's not really me misunderstanding it, I think it's more just a bad film with terrible plotting. If the message is that Batman is as bad as the villians he brings in, that is clearly missing the point of the character: there's a fine line between that, yes, but he's not on the same level.

That said, if you enjoyed it, then that's fair enough. Different strokes for different folks.

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I think he's more of an ambivalent than a baddy.

Sure he may have had a troubled past, but the audience wasn't supposed to acknowledge that! Anyhow I don't think any guy who tries to exterminate every first-born son in a city and acts like a crude psycho doing it is meant to have any redeeming qualities.

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