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py VAIN, cat girl,you wait for Oedipus to cross your path - Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman in Batman
turns. ;

Gotham Gothic

Bat magic fades fast in latest
installment of caped crusader

Batman Returns * 4 (Warner Bros.) Rated Mature (at the .
Esplanade, Park Royal, Capitol, Dunbar, Richmond Centre, Station

Square, Eagle Ridge, Guildford, Willowbrook and Harris Road

cinemas)

RH... CHRISTMAS in Gotham City. As snowflakes
, poh gently fall, a young couple, the Cobblepots (featur-
ing Pee-Wee Hesman as Pa) cast their little sprog,

Oswald, adrift in his wicker pram.

K's their desperate solution to a
‘deformed infant with a taste for
household pets. The sewer carries
Oswald into a frigid lair beneath
Gotham’s zoo where his wails at-
tract the curious “Arctic World”
penguins.

As usual, T.m Burton opens with
a great kick-off. But as the familiar
strident Batman theme swells, the
magic evaporates.

Now back te the story.

Thirty-three years later, to the
day, the Bat Signal alerts Bruce
Wayne (Michael Keaton) that
there’s a pack ‘o trouble with a
capital T, that rhymes with P and
that stands for Penguin (Danny
DeVito).

As if an egg-shaped, filthy fish-
eater raising a flippered fist against
Gotham isn’t enough to drive a
guy batty, there's also trouble with
acapital T that rhymes with C —
Catwoman a.k.a. Selina Kyle
(Michelle Pfeiffer).

The former mousy secretary us-
ed up one of her nine lives afer
being forcibly ejected from her job
by boss Max Schreck (Christopher
Walken).

Selina is spittin’ mad and slashes
out against male tyranny in a stit- °
ched-together wetsuit, stiletto
heels and a bull-whip.

The story has something to do
with Schreck hoarding the city’s
power suppiy (maybe that’s why
the picture is so dark), and trying
to get Penguin elected Mayor
while slinky Catwoman gives Bat-
man a severe tongue-lashing
(hmmm, kittylation ).

But as quickly as jumbled plot

Tim Bell
FILM REVIEW

developments are raised, they're
abandoned in a very disjointed
script. The thin characters don’t
help either. Schreck is too placid,
the vile Penguin is crudely obnox-
ious, and Catwoman kickboxes
while dropping the occasional cat-
ty remark.

A somewhat dazed Keaton plods
through his dual personality paces.
Surprisingly, Batman makes 4 pret-
ty ineffective threat against the
crime wave (where’s Kobin when
you need him).

The movie is much more inter-
ested in creating a v'sual and aural
din. There are a few startling im-
ages, as in all of Burton’s movies,
but they're diluted after what
amounts to an assault on the
senses,

Cape Fear * *& & (MCA Home
Video) Unrated .

This is the Robert Mitchum orig-
inal, not Martin Scorcese’s recent
violent remake. The film relies on
Mitchum’s powerful nastiness and
audience imagination, and works
much better with simpler, cleaner
lines.

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