just like Burton’s first Batman was about NYC’s 80s “urban crisis”, violence on the streets, Batman Returns was about the turn to the ‘90s and the return of the city, as the never-left faction of unmarried women traded image as mousy to leather-clad dominatrix sexy, and meanwhile the Penguin, disgustingly waddlingly fat… with freakishly large nose… cut off from his heritage… laughably styling himself as heir to the old urban ruling class…

huh.