Batman Returns

After the big hit with the first Batman film Warner Brothers decided to bring everyone back to do another one. What's the story? Apparently under the streets of  Gotham city in the sewer lives the "Penguin" played by "Danny DeVito." He's been down there all his life for 33 years, and one night near Christmas a power plant owner named "Max Shreck" played by "Christopher Walken." Penguin kidnaps him and threatens that if he doesn't help him get to the surface he'll kill him. And one night he does and finds out that hi real name is "Oswald Cobblepot." Max also pushes one of his employees named "Selena Kyle" played by "Michelle Pfeiffer" out a window almost killing her but instead it drive her insane and she then becomes "Catwoman." Now it's up to Batman to save her and stop the evil Penguin. What I like about this movie, once again, is the cast. Danny DeVito especially was perfect as the Penguin. He's so horrifying and so disgusting that it's actually really effective. Keaton, once again, does a good job as Batman and the action actually has improved even if it's still not all that great but it's getting there. This is by far one of the darkest movies I've ever seen. It definitely does have a lot of scary moments. I'm not entirely sure whether I'd say this is better than the first Batman movie but I still do like it even though it made a lot of people feeling kind of empty when they first saw it. But it's good. Not entirely great but still all the same. I'd say check it out but mind the scary scenes.

Batman

This is going to be like my Disney reviews I'm going to do this as well as Batman Returns, Batman Begins, Dark Knight, Dark Knight Rises and all the Marvel movies. So what's the story? Well if you know the comic stories you know this fine. "Bruce Wayne" played by Michael Keaton is an orphan who is also the mysterious Batman. But there's a man named "Jack Napier" who's also a criminal. One night while trying to stop him and his gang Batman drops Jack into a vat of chemicals transforming him into the villain "The Joker." He now tries to get even with him so to do that he tries to kill everyone with a new liquid that makes them look like him and kill them. But Batman manages to crack the combinations of what he's doing and the Joker is also tying to get together with one Bruce's friend "Vicky Vale." I'd say the best part of this movie is probably the casting and especially how most of them seem to be cast well like Keaton or Jack Nicholson as Jack Napier and while they're both not as good as Christian Bale and Heath Ledger, they are still impressive. The same goes to the director "Tim Burton" who did Nightmare Before Christmas, while his directing isn't as good as Christopher Nolan's in the Dark Knight. There's not really much left to say except I think this movie is pretty good. If you haven't seen it yet and you've got some spare time, I'd say take a watch.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Nightmare Before Christmas, wow talk about a film that only did O.K at the box office but got tons on great reviews and praises. To be honest I'd never heard about this movie until I saw it in Kingdom Hearts and it was actually because of Kingdom Hearts I decided to get it on DVD. When I first saw I thought it was, meh. Pretty good but a little annoying. However, over the years I've grown to really like it. It's like my original thoughts on Frozen, I originally thought it was annoying but when I started watching it more and more it's become one of my favourites. When I say it's one of my favourites it's because this was done by Tim Burton, the same person who did Batman and Batman Returns. You can count this as one of my Disney review. What's the story? It seems all the holidays are given their own land, Halloween town, Christmas town and all the rest. The leader of Halloween, "Jack Skeleton" is finally getting tired of his holiday and wants to try something new . So he accidentally finds the Christmas holiday and decides he wants to take it for his own. Showing the people of Halloween what he's discovered and even kidnapping Santa Clause himself, Jack decides he going to transform a Merry Christmas into a Scary Christmas. Instead of bringing treats and toys he's going to bring creeps and scares which ultimately result in a horrible catastrophe. And meanwhile Santa himself has been taken to the evil "Oogie Boogie" by his henchmen "Lock, Stock and Barrel to be torucherd. And now it's up to Jack to stop Oogie and fix everything. The movie has a great story with it's creativity and simplicity. It's also really easy explain and easy to follow The visuals are really cool to look at seeing it's Tim Burton doing it. But also the song are pretty good too. The composer and song writer of this is Danny Elfman who's done all of Tim's movies, even Batman. And yeah the songs in this are actually the same feeling I originally had with the Frozen songs too. Originally I thought they were annoying but they actually are really enjoyable. Like "This is Halloween, Kidnap the Sandy Claws, What's this What's this" and so on. Elfman himself does the singing voice of Jack and I couldn't even tell the songs are just that good. I actually also think the villain is a little weird and little to bad. When I say bad I mean he doesn't do that much and I would of liked there to be a bit more screen time with him. But with the screen time Oogie got he is still pretty cool. My favourite part of the movie is the climax between Jack and Oogie. Just the way they move and the way all of Oogie's invention all fly around. Watch this.

I'd say the only problem I have with the movie is that a few things aren't explained like when Jack comes back to Halloween Town it's never explained about how he found out that Oogie had Santa and his friend named Sally. But still, aside from that the movie is still enjoyable and like I said this is one of my top 5 or maybe even top 3 favourite Tim Burton films. And I especially love it in Kingdom Hearts. It's just that good. If you haven't seen it yet I'd say take a look.

My top 5 favourite superhero movies

I've actually been watching a lot of superhero movies recently and that's why I decided to make this list.
5. Batman 1989: This one may actually surprise you because of what you're going to see in a few minutes with my number 3 spot. But anyway, this movie and it's sequel "Batman Returns" are both on this list. They were both dark, had the same actors and the same director "Tim Burton." They both had some decent action even though it really wasn't anything that spectacular or even not great, but regardless they are still great movies with great actors and a good storyline.
4. The Iron man, Thor and Captain America trilogies: Now this is really cheating because they're all different trilogies. But they all do come together in the 2012 movie "The Avengers." They all have the perfect cast. Like Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man, Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America. They all have some spectacular fighting scenes and really good subtle moments too. They're just amazing.
3. The Dark Knight trilogy: Now I know I've said before that I thought the Batman series is better but after having watched them both again recently I've found that The Dark Knight Trilogy is the superior Batman movie series and a lot that comes from Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman. In my opinion, he's the best Batman. The way he looks in the costume, the way he does everything cleverly, the way he can look intimidating and look intimidating himself and I actually do think that voice does fit the Batman character and it does have really brilliant looking action scenes.
2. The Amazing Spider-man trilogy: Yeah I bet you thought you were going to see this as number 1 but no, while I do think it's a spectacular superhero film trilogy, it's not my number 1. But still it is amazing. It has a perfect cast, a good storyline, even if it is a little complicated and a little choppy and it does have a lot of likable scenes and intense action scenes. The thing that especially makes it for me is two things. One is Andrew Garfield as Spider-man who is still the best Spider-man in my opinion. His comedy, his brains, his strategies, his entertainment, care and the fact that he is interesting, this is the Spider-man I look up to and admire. And the other thing that makes it for me is both the other cast and the atmosphere that the director's trying to create. The shots, the angles, the pacing, these movies actually allow you to breath for a minute and take in the full size and scope of everything that is Spider-man, it really allow you to suck up the atmosphere.
And my number 1 favourite superhero movie of all time is... The Avengers: Yeah, The Avengers is my favourite superhero movie. It has a great story, great characters, some of the best action scenes ever and it has a perfect ending.  It has Iron man, Thor and Captain America back. As well as Scarlet Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye, Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk  and even Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. Natasha and Nick appeared in a few of the other Marvel movies before this and man did they do it fantastically. But back to it. It does have some spectacular action scenes. The best one being the New York final battle at the end. It also has a great villain with Loki played by Tom Huddleston and you can tell he's having a bunch of fun in it. He's just so enjoyable to watch. It also has a bunch of the same comedy from the other great Marvel movies as well as some unbelievable visuals, especially the design of the Chitauri aliens. They're going to be making a sequel to it this year and I'm hoping to go to it. Also I'm going to be doing reviews to the Marvel and maybe a few DC superhero movies like I did with the Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks ones. So I think I said enough all I can say left is that it's a spectacular superhero movie and my number 1 all time favourite one of all time.