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Title: Much atmosphere (and a rancid one at that). Little substance.
Review: Visually stimulating and persistently off-kilter with a few well-acted, stylistically creative scenes (Pfeiffer's return home, the ballroom revelation) but primarily spooky, goofy, and disgusting. Heroism, excitement, and interesting characters are nowhere - and I mean nowhere - to be found.I frequently had to remind myself that I was supposedly enduring a Batman movie. It's hard to remember that when a third of the picture is spent showing a slimy, fanged and flippered midget eat a raw fish whole as the contents of its bowels stream down his chin. All while he's running for mayor. Whee. I completely checked out when they rolled out the all-terrain rubber ducky and the rocket-launching penguins.This film is essentially just two hours of Tim Burton pleasuring himself.
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