BATMAN RETURNS
In Gotham City, a wealthy couple throw their deformed infant son into the sewer; the boy survives, however, and is found by a flock of penguins. Thirty-three years later, the child, Oswald Cobblepot, resurfaces as a criminal, the Penguin, who kidnaps millionaire industrialist Max Shreck.
With evidence of his corporate crimes, Cobblepot blackmails Shreck into
helping him leave the sewers to become part of Gotham's elite. The
Penguin arranges for the Mayor's child to be kidnapped, whom he then
"rescues" in order to set himself up as a heroic figure.
Late one night, upon returning to his office, Shreck surprises his secretary Selina Kyle, in the course of her preparation for a meeting with Bruce Wayne regarding Shreck's proposed power plant.
While innocently pulling relevant documents, Selina accesses Shreck's
protected files, uncovering compromising information, revealing that the
plant will drain Gotham's power supply. Realizing Selina knows too
much, Shreck pushes her out of a window, leaving her for dead on the
ground many stories below. Selina survives the fall after being revived
by alley cats. She returns to her apartment, then suffers a psychotic break and reinvents herself as Catwoman, a catsuit-clad burglar dedicated to getting revenge on her boss.
Shreck then hatches a plan to recall Gotham City's current mayor
and elect the Penguin in his place, in order to cement his control over
the city and complete his power plant project. The Penguin's gang of
circus performers cause chaos around Gotham to create bad press for the
Mayor. Meanwhile, Bruce's alter-ego Batman tries to defend Gotham from Catwoman and the Penguin's gang.
Selina falls in love with Bruce, a situation complicated by
Catwoman's teaming with the Penguin in an effort to rid Gotham of
Batman. They kidnap The Ice Princess,
a woman chosen to turn on the Gotham Christmas Tree lights, and frame
Batman for the crime. Finding The Princess balancing precariously on the
ledge of a high building, Batman tries to save her, but to no avail;
the Penguin unleashes an umbrella full of bats which frighten The
Princess into plunging to her death, and makes it look like Batman
killed her. When a shocked Catwoman rejects his advances, the Penguin
tries, unsuccessfully, to kill her. When Batman returns to the Batmobile,
he finds that the Penguin has sabotaged it; as the Penguin takes the
Batmobile on a remote-controlled rampage through Gotham, he gloats about
fooling the entire city. Batman ultimately escapes the Penguin's trap,
however.
When Bruce exposes the Penguin's plans to dupe Gotham, thereby
ruining his election chances, the Penguin initiates a plan to murder all
of Gotham's first-born sons by kidnapping and taking them into his lair
to drown them in a pool of water that has been contaminated with
Shreck's toxic waste. He personally attempts to take Max's son, Charles
"Chip" Shreck,
but agrees to take Max instead. Batman foils the Penguin's large-scale
infanticide scheme, whereupon the Penguin then decides to launch
missiles around Gotham using mind-controlled penguins. However, Batman
is able to jam the frequency used to control the penguins and has
missiles launched at the Penguin's base. Batman confronts the Penguin,
which culminates in the Penguin falling into the toxic waters in his
lair.
Batman tries to persuade Catwoman to turn Shreck over to the police,
even unmasking himself in the process, but Shreck draws a gun. Catwoman
claims that she still has six of her nine lives left, and remains standing after Shreck shoots her four times. Catwoman uses a taser
to cause an explosion, electrocuting Shreck and apparently sacrificing
herself (using up her "eighth life"). The Penguin then emerges from the
toxic water and tries to kill Batman, but he succumbs to his wounds. His
penguins then take his body into the sewer waters as a final resting
place.
Later, Bruce is being driven around the city at night with butler Alfred Pennyworth and thinks he sees Selina's shadow on a wall. Alfred stops the car, and
Bruce finds a cat, which he takes with him and leaves. As the Bat-Signal lights up the night sky, a silhouette of what appears to be Catwoman is seen gazing at it.
CRITICISM
The movie is under the archetypal criticism because the main character is a fictional character. He was just an outcome of an imaginative mind. Batman and his adventures were never true. And Batman himself never existed.
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