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While I appreciate several aspects of Returns a lot, I find precious little BatMyth in it. And, as usual, it's not the what that bothers me, it's the how. Batman/Bruce's behavior is more out of character than ever, he's more into casual killing than in '89 and even seems to enjoy it (that smile when he hangs the dynamite on the clown's belt), he seems even more awkward as Bruce, and he gives away his secret identity to everyone and their uncle, including the villains. I could forgive the mutant Penguin, if only he didn't behave like an American Pie character. (Still, to me there's only one Penguin and it's this guy.) Paradoxically, though, what I like the most from it is what I dislike the most from '89: the love story. At its core Returns is a romance movie between freaks, and there's no doubt those two loonies belong together. My favorite scene is the masked ball in which everyone is wearing masks... except for Bruce and Selina. I think Freud would have loved it. But a Batman movie it ain't, not any more than my short consecution edit A Psychogenic Fugue is a Spider-Man movie.