Instead, the new film catches the campy innocence of the Batman TV series of the ’60s. Batman Forever, with Joel Schumacher ( The Client) in for Burton as director, goes easy on the mayhem and doesn’t dwell on our hero’s pesky depressive side. Except for Michelle Pfeiffer’s whip-smart and sexy Catwoman, it left a sour taste. Audiences, not just the Dole contingent, were turned off by Burton’s grim and disjointed 1992 sequel, Batman Returns. This 1995 version has cleaned up its act. ![]() The third Batman epic, with Val Kilmer replacing Michael Keaton as the Caped Crusader and Jim Carrey out-mugging Jack Nicholson’s Joker as the rascally Riddler, is a long way from the dark poetry of Tim Burton’s 1989 original.
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