Batman
returns, whilst making money at the box office didn’t succeed commercially,
partially I think down to the fact that it did everything in its power not to
be suitable for kids other than swearing. So Tim Burton got booted down to
producer and Warner Bros. hired a new director, Joel Schumacher.
Yeah, I’ll
join the bandwagon of Schumacher bashing when I get to Batman and Robin. Or
possibly during this review. Warner Bros wanted a more mainstream Batman movie,
Keaton decided to depart after disagreeing with the changes and Val Kilmer was
hired and as far as I can tell it was almost immediate and Kilmer had no idea what
he was signing on for.
Whilst
Burton pandered to the very early days of comics, the very, very, very early
days, Schumacher was more in favour of style like the Adam West Batman show so
cue puns, cheese and general good times right? Let’s just dive in
