Directed and Produced By Tim Burton

Gotham City faces two monstrous criminal menaces: the bizarre, sinister Penguin (Danny Devito)and the slinky, mysterious Catwoman (Michelle Pheiffer). Can Batman (Michael Keaton) battle two formidable foes at once? Especially when one wants to be mayor and the other is romantically attracted to Gotham's hero? Like the Academy Award-winning 1989 original, Batman Returns is directed by moviemaking wizard Tim Burton. And like that first blockbuster, it's a dazzling adventure that leaves you breathless.- From the movie box.

Excepts from Burton on Burton:

I didn't want to do the Batman sequel initially because I was kind of burnt out, and I didn't know what I could bring to it. It took me a long time to get interested again. Part of it was all those big weird circumstances: like not having a minute, working seven days a week under really harsh conditions, not having a chance to think, not having the script sorted out. It's the one movie I feel more detached from than the others.

Masks in this country symbolize hiding, but when I used to go to Halloween parties wearing a mask was actually more of a doorway, a way of expressing myself. There is something about being hidden that in some weird way helps you to be more open because you feel freer. People would open up much more. There always a bit wilder, because something about wearing a mask protecting them. It's something that I have noticed in our culture and have felt myself.

Produced by Holly Borradaile, Denise Di Novi and Robin L. D'Arcy

Associate producer Ian Bryce

Co-producer Larry J. Franco

Executive producer Peter Guber, Benjamin Melniker, Jon Peters, Michael E. Uslan

Original Music by Danny Elfman, Siouxsie Sioux

Cinematography by Stefan Czapsky

Film Editing by Bob Badami, Chris Lebenzon

Casting by Marion DoughertyScreenplay- Daniel Waters

Story by Daniel Waters and Sam Hamm

Edited by Chris Lebenzon

Music by Danny Elfman

Production design b Bo Welch

The Batman characters are created by Bob Kane

Nominated for Best Visual Effects; Best Makeup at the 1993 Academy Awards