Celebration !
Welcome ladies and gents this is my 100th review here on Comic Vine.Ever since I first made my account back in July the first thing I loved about this website was the review section because im the kind of guy that wants his opinion to be know and all the reviews I did were my,except this one.Now some of you might wonder want I will review but you problably already saw the title so im reviewing Batman '89.
The first time I saw this movie back in November.Yeah you read that right.The main reason is because I already had the Dark Knight and the 90's cartoon so seeing the thing that gave mainstream viewers the dark Batman semed rater pointless to me.So back in November I asked my friend who has the dvds lent them to me and I watched it.
The Story: We all know this one.Batman is the protector of Gotham City and is dealing with being pursued by GPD and meets a criminal Jack Napier who falls into a vent of chemicals and becomes crazier and becomes the Joker.
The Good: Michael Keaton looks really good in the Batman costume and in my opinion it looks the best on film in all of the live action Batman adaptation's,the exception to this rule is of course the cartoon's.The acting all around is good but I do have some problems for a few of them.I did watch a bunch of Batman '89 reviews for a time and sometimes a complaint I heard was that Jack Nicholson just played crazy Nicholson and not really a Joker esqu character,now I haven't seen a lot of his movies so I can't really say anything more on.The cinematography was really good and the Batmobile looks really cool.
The Bad: Batman is a killer,in the factory a bunch of criminals around were around the Batmobile,so Batman decides to set a bomb and we see no criminals going out of the factory so all im left to assume is that Batmna killed them.Batman doesn't kill and I don't want any BS about how Batman killed in the beginning,first off that is Earth 2 and second off when a character first appears he never is the same when he finally comes into form.Also I don't know if it's the writer or Tim Burton but they did not understand what the point to Bruce Wayne is,in the movie he is a locked away rich guy because of his parents died and the city people don't know anything about him and wonder about what he does and in the comics he is what Bats uses to trick people into beliving Bruce Wayne isn't Batman(with what Morrison recently did with Bats some people might put the puzzle pieces together).I don't care about Vicky Vale in this,she was annoying and couldn't stop yelling and served no real purpose to the plot.I find that Joker killing Bruce's aprents annoying,I don't hate the idea since this a movie and it needed to make the heroe hate the villain so im fine but it just annoyed by it.The Joker doesn't really do anything scary in the movie,the only thing he did to show he was crazy was him and his goons defacing some paintings in the Gotham Museum while the Dark Knight we had the Joker orchastrating a whole operation to rob a bank and to be the only one to get out of it alive and don't forget the scene with the kidnapped guy who was saying what the Joker's demands were before plumiting from the sky.Also how in the name of Bullseye did Batman miss the Joker with the Batplanes turrets and then got shot down by Joker's comically large pistol ?
The Verdict: Yeah as you can tell I am not a fan of this movie,the performances while good don't make sense at some places,Batman doesn't follow the code of ethics he usually has and the Joker is not frightening.This is a good movie to watch if you want to know if you like Batman but for those that have alreadyt watched the 90's cartoon or the Nolan films you dont have watch this.This is skippable.
