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Burton knows that moviegoers, just like the Penguin, need their oversize playthings. So he and production designer Bo Welch provided toys for the kids. The new-model Batmobile can get ultraslim (fast!) and slip through the narrowest crevice. The Penguin's parasol becomes an Umbrella-Copter, spiriting him out of the trouble he loves to make. At the end he sends his commando squadron of penguins to destroy the city: tuxedoed birds wearing embossed shields, tiny helmets and missiles with candy-cane stripes ( it is Christmas) on their backs. Some of the penguins were real, some were robot puppets, some...
...chance to luxuriate in a cartoon world made flesh and concrete. Massive Deco-style buildings -- a Rockefeller Center gone bats -- stretch skyward to put heroes and villains in ironic perspective. "The movie is very vertical," says Welch, who also designed Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands. "It goes from the penguin in the sewers to a flying rodent. So these are aggressive sets, not passive backdrops incidental to the action." The visual contrasts -- big on little, bright on brooding, snow on soot -- give the film a distinct, witty style: Dark Lite...
...Batman TV series, Burgess Meredith played Penguin as a kind of deranged F.D.R. This was not for DeVito. "I didn't see myself playing a weird Nick Charles with a martini glass and a tuxedo," he says. "It just didn't tickle my fancy." Then Burton showed him a painting he had done of "a toddler with a big round head and big eyes and a protrusion in the nose and mouth and a bulbous body with little appendages. And there was a caption that said, 'My name is Jimmy, but they call me the hideous penguin...
...movie, Penguin and Catwoman make hilarious hate. Pfeiffer had cats crawling over her supine body and, in one scene, a live bird in her mouth. "Fortunately," she says, "I have a pretty big mouth." She also had a longtime crush on her character. "Catwoman was a childhood heroine of mine," she says. "She's good, bad, evil, dangerous, vulnerable and sexual. She is allowed to be all of those things, and we are still allowed to care about...
...Penguin burns and Catwoman yearns in Batman Returns...