Batman Returns

Batman Returns (1992)

21 mistakes since 20 Apr '17, 00:00

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Continuity mistake: When Selina electrocutes Max while kissing him his head is tilted to the right. Shot changes and it's straight.

Sacha

Character mistake: Penguin shouts, "I am not a human being! I am an animal! Cold-blooded!" Penguins are actually warm-blooded.

Continuity mistake: When the Penguin hooks the umbrella on Cat Woman he turns to our left to watch her fly away. A shot later he is facing straight, but a shot later he has suddenly moved 2 meters to the right and is facing the right side.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the clown lies unconscious there's a string several centimeters behind his head. A shot later his head is on top of the string.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Selina is about to taser the clown she puts on an evil face, but a shot later from a different shot she is staring with a calm look.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Selina watches the clown's hand holding the taser, his fingers are clinched around it. A shot later his index finger is sticking out.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Catwoman turns the microwave dial to the right, pointing in a 3 o'clock position. A shot later it points in a 12 O'Clock position. (00:56:04)

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: Inside the cage, Max covers his mouth with his hand and then uncovers it and grabs an iron bar. A shot later he is suddenly covering his mouth again. (01:37:16)

Sacha

Revealing mistake: When The Penguin controls the Batmobile, before it crashes against a car on the left and sends it flying away, check the car's rear wheels: they're not touching the road.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: While arranging the plan with the clowns, the Penguin throws his clothes on the floor, which change positions between shots. (01:29:23 - 01:31:00)

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: When Bruce goes to gear up to rescue the Ice Princess, there are visible footprints on the drawbridge that leads into the chamber where all the bat suits are kept. When he then steps back out in his Batman attire, the drawbridge is now clean of all prints. (00:00:24)

Continuity mistake: After dumping out the sewing kit, Selena picks up a pair of scissors with blue handles. When the camera is in a closeup of her, the scissors have pink handles.

Movie Nut

Continuity mistake: When the circus gang first attacks, after Batman uses his Batmobile to take out of the two juggling guys on stilts, he opens this flat panel on the passenger side of the Batmobile to take out one of the skull mask wearing bikers. Before taking out of the second biker, he opens that same panel again.

Continuity mistake: Towards the end when Bruce takes the cat, the wounds on his left cheek change from faded to fresh.

oswal13

Deliberate mistake: After Batman destroys The Penguin's controlling system and breaks the TV screen he is 4 meters away from a narrow alley. Shot changes and he's now downtown driving around the city, Then there's a POV shot of him driving towards the narrow alley again, though he is now many meters behind. Then back to shots of him driving downtown until he finally arrives at the narrow alley. It adds up for pace, but it's very awkward indeed.

Sacha

Selina Kyle: Honey, I'm home. Oh, I forgot. I'm not married.

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Trivia: Harvey Dent, who would later become Two Face, was originally going to be in this film instead of Max Schreck. The plan was to have Catwoman turn him into Two Face the same way she ended up killing Schreck, except of course Dent obviously would've survived and become Two Face.

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Question: After she falls, what exactly makes Selyna Kyle go nuts? And what is she trying to do to her apartment?

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Answer: The film keeps it ambiguous. There are two ways to look at it. Scenario A- She literally died and is brought back to life by the alley-cats somehow, adapting some of their traits. Or... Scenario B- The trauma of falling and sustaining a head-injury, along with her paranoia after Schreck tried to kill her, has driven her mad, and she uses her connection with cats to build a new persona. (Which is supported by the fact that all the things she claims "kills" her with each of her "nine lives" wouldn't actually have killed her. Ex. Her one fall is broken by the kitty-litter truck. Max doesn't hit her in any vital organs when he shoots her. Etc.) Her destroying her apartment is her lashing out at all the things she used to hold dear- her vision of a normal life, etc. It's symbolic of her purging the past and embracing the future. (Plus, oftentimes when people throw fits, they'll smash stuff up).

Chosen answer: She just died, and came back to life. The shock drove her mad. She really isn't doing anything but destroying it.

MasterOfAll

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