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...Time-Warner merger of 1989 was supposed to produce corporate "synergy": the whole was supposed to be more than the sum of the parts. The Cop Killer controversy is an example of negative synergy. People get mad at Cop Killer and start boycotting the movie Batman Returns. A reviewer praises Cop Killer ("Tracy Marrow's poetry takes a switchblade and deftly slices life's jugular," etc.), and TIME is accused of corruption instead of mere foolishness. Senior Time Warner executives find themselves under attack for -- and defending -- products of their company they neither honestly care for nor really understand...
...Barret Oliver), his 10-year-old master, determines to revive him using a microwave and a toaster. FRANKENWEENIE sounds like pure Tim Burton, and it is. The 27-min. Disney comedy, made in 1984 and now released as a home video, marked the debut of the director of the Batman blockbusters. This ripe tale has intimations of Burton's Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands: the undead and a wild child sundered in suburbia. But Burton's Batmanic surrealism is plenty evident here. The pet cemetery is adorned with fire-hydrant and dog-biscuit tombstones, and the community unites to hot-wire...
...then there's Penguin. First he's a good guy--a mutant orphan who just want to find his parents. Then he runs for mayor. Then Batman spoils a political rally and Penguin loses his shit and decides to destroy the world...
...point--reminiscent of the corniest comic book scenes--Catwoman come to Penguin's lair and proposes a plot to destroy Batman. As anything but an opportunity for her to stretch and purr in her clingy suit, the scene is a complete waste...
...makers of Batman Returns were on the right track in developing tension between Catwoman and Batman, but their entire relationship rests on crusty cliches about mistletoe and deadly kisses...