1.,2. Birth Of A Penguin

[robohorsemusic]

I'm not complaining - Burton's batman films had music by Danny Elfman, and Nolan's batman had music by Hans Zimmer. Incidentally, two of my favourite composers on the planet.

[pistonfan33]

I don't get why so many people love the first two Batman movies more than the Nolan trilogy because Tim Burton's Batman does something that goes against Batman's biggest fundamentals...HE KILLS PEOPLE.

[LotusEater91]

i like this movie, a batman film can NEVER be too dark.

[Netman0007]

Nolan movies are good, but no one will ever top Elfman's theme

[DevilishmanThe]

This music is the best for background while reading A serious house on a serious earth

[darksoulzzzz]

Gothic theme with a christmas time is very good! The music i think get u think about people from our society that need love, but they get only hate and you laugh on them. Really today the new generation lost their soul...

[anthonymarsh1]

the soundtrack uploads that Bmst32 had are removed due to copyright. So I'll get this.

[Screechus91]

this movie made me scarred of clowns...... music didnt help much either lol

[Two27Face]

theres something about tim burtons batman that just makes me love his movies, idk i love the darkness tone the actors that played them, the music, the surroundings.

[vroota42]

Love the use of organs.

[anthonymarsh1]

@vroota42 I like both the organs and the gothic choir.

[mouloudo]

Keaton has the jaw, the eyes, the voice, Bale has arched teeth like a thumb sucker, stupid voice, average eyes...

[anthonymarsh1]

@mouloudo I like both Batmans- Michael Keaton will still be #1. Val Kilmer was a wuss of a Batman. George Clooney was a complete dick. Christian Bale is, to me, a much dark version that I currently relate to. Adam West is an iconic Batman, but now he's a gay old geeser.

[MojoLaJojo]

Well... It's Christmas now ! Go Batman Returns on Blu Ray !

"The signal !"

[Gellllllllllll]

Batman is supposed to be fantastic. Nolan just remade Heat

[anthonymarsh1]

@Gellllllllllll Not really. 

[crocutable]

Second best Christmas movie ever!

[jorgeiramain]

@crocutable and what is the first?

[crocutable]

@jorgeiramain Edward Scissorhands. :)

[darksoulzzzz]

What i can say abouth this film.. It is the darkest film of a Batman. Joker is joker but penguin imho the most dramatic of all villians. Christmas with a darkness make this film very tragistic. And Denny De Vito must stay near Heath Ledger!!!!

[rainbowdragon1872]

watched this again yesterday for teh first time since i was like...10. This movie is quite dark, and disturbing at times......but in my opinion, the best Batman movie. All the actors were great, but i think Danny DeVito did a phenomonal job as Penguin.

[thepunkster90]

This is still the best Batman movie ever

[bofo85]

Danny Elfman is a damn musical genius!

[anthonymarsh1]

@bofo85 Yeah I know. Check out his music for Burton's other projects he collaborated for.

[Shadowelecman]

This movie has Batman, kitties, penguins, a monkey, and Christopher Walken!

Best movie ever!

Oh, and the song is good too.

[Drrailaa]

@Shadowelecman That damn monkey and Walken...they shoulda made a movie about those two >.>

[Shadowelecman]

@Drrailaa Yes. Yes they should have. That would've been amazing.

[mexluver05]

Michael Keaton is Bruce Wayne and Batman. Bale cant hold a candle to him!



[Johnlindsey289]

@mexluver05

What about Kevin conroy?

[painlessissuicide]

I wish we could just get the first part, up until the credits begin

[cycling1900]

The first 30 seconds of the song! I don't think i can describe them. Macabre!!!

[MrBizzel]

Never liked the Penguin, except for Burton & Devito's version.

[allyouneedisbooz]

these two were the last great villains

[MultiJackyll]

If I could pick one Batman film that is simply the best batman film ever It has to be this one...I love the way the penguin's been done in this...a deformed child who never knew his parents and then exacts revenge on Gotham...Epicly played by Danny Devito

[EnilionV]

My favorite movie line, perfectly fitting lots of situations:

I believe the word you are looking for is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

[freshPrincess626]

audio epicness. and pretty too. :P

[ladyhawkdi]

This should have been during halloween.

[imreadydoctor]

christian bale may make a damn good bruce, but no one will EVER touch on the batman, like Micheal Keaton did!

[nixeverafter]

As the Cloudyhead guys said, Michael Keaton was the best batman.

[TheAustnod]

I'll all ways rember this from the Video game for super Nintindo

[TheDarkPan]

My annual Christmas movie.

[Teenlego]

@TheDarkPan same here

[MagnumP88]

@TheDarkPan Mine too, along with Die Hard and Home Alone ;)

[xRedEyesJounouchix]

I noticed Michael Keaton played as Beeltejuice. Then I remembered, "Only crap! he's awesome!!"

[Harri927]

Michael Keaton is the perfect BATMAN.

[Teenlego]

@Harri927 i still can't believe people tried to potition out of the 1989 film

[MISANTHROPY647]

@Harri927 I dunno 'bout the perfect BATMAN, but he's the perfect BRUCE WAYNE, sure, you would never suspect a guy like him to be Batman.

[KOOLDudefilms]

@MISANTHROPY647 I would actually say Bale is the better Bruce Wayne. He was able to fit more of the playboy aspect than Keaton did. Plus, Mike was a better Batman. He used a deep voice for disguise and still didn't sound like an antichrist like Bale.

[MagnumP88]

@KOOLDudefilms You can't really put the blame on Bale guttural roar that was his voice in Dark Knight, they edited his voice in post to make it sound more monstrous for some strange reason. His voice was ok in Begins, in my opinion. Thing is, you've gotta give Keaton credit for distinguishing between a Bat and Bruce voice, a tradition Kevin Conroy has taken and ran with. Keaton's always sounded like a dark, raspy Clint Eastwood to me. Everyone says Conroy is THE voice, but Keaton birthed it =]

[Harri927]

True.

[Harri927]

Michael Keaton is the # 1 Batman of all time and Tim Burton is the Perfect Director for the First 2 Batman films, Schumacher's Batman films were ok, Chris Nolans Batman films are Awsome, but I perfer Tim Burtons work on BATMAN better. Michael Keaton deserves to be Batman in Schumachers movies, Who's with me?

[MrUKFORLIFE]

@Harri927 Schumacher's two Batman films were horrid, especially when compared to the other 4 Batman films. Schumacher damn near killed the franchise.

[slothfulsloth1234567]

The Penguin disliked this video.

[MrUKFORLIFE]

As Batman, MICHAEL KEATON>>>>>Christian Bale. I'm sorry but its not even close. Bale's Batman voice is AWFUL and it's definitely not helping his case. I wish I could have seen Michael Keaton as Batman and Heath Ledger as the Joker in the same Batman movie. Good lord, talk about epic. I like Jack as the Joker in the original, but man oh man, it's hard to go against Heath Ledger in the Dark Knight...it was downright scary how great Heath Ledger played the Joker. BTW, Danny Elfman RULES !!

[thegeezerdan]

I love this music.

[EDV223]

Danny Elfman dava um clima sombrio e doentio nos filmes do Batman... Passava uma grande emoção nada supera isso.

[OnePiec3ver]

Christian Bale as Batman is cooler :P :D

[Skeletonwitharaygun]

@OnePiec3ver

Fuck Christian Bale's batman.

He sucks

[gabejohnson88]

I remember when I saw this in the theatres I was 4 years old and was so overjoyed to see this and when it finished the whole theatre applaued!!!

[Visonu]

I don't care how tragic the Penguin's story was. NOTHING justifies the killing of innocent children. That's what the Penguin did, and he was going to kill more, and by so doing he earned Batman's wrath.

Personally, I think that death wasn't bad enough for him. He should have gone to prison for the rest of his life and been made to suffer every minute of each day until he died. Only then would those children he abducted and killed during his circus days truly be avenged.

[Staremonemesis]

The darkness amplifies the chill of the falling snow. A shrill scream pierces the cold as we look upon the Cobblepot household. The parents, horrified by their disfigured child's appearance and behavior, threw him and his carriage into the Gotham river. The carriage floated down the storm drain and ended up in Arctic World, part of the old Gotham zoo. There it was carried off into the darkness by huge emperor penguins...

[Psquit]

@Staremonemesis yeah, sad story... cant blame the penguin for being evil.

[STONECOLD1987]

Keaton+Batman=5 STARS

[MrShaneo65]

i may love the birth of penguin but this might go great with either Scarface, scarecrow, Clayface, or killer Croc they have sad beginnings.

[TheYella20]

@MrShaneo65 don't forget about batman too even though he has his own theme

[knightrider5050]

When I was 3 this was my all time favorite still is one of my favs. I'm into Sweeney Todd now, for the longest I was into x-men and when I became a Sweeney Todd fan I looked saw that it was Tim Burton didn't know he created the batmans yet until I watch the first batman and I saw his name. I choked on my Dr.Pepper and I was like I was a Tim Burton Fan from the start and didn't realize it? Shame on me!

[arkhamcare]

112 people were born with 3 fingers

[winxclublover]

Tim Burton and Michael Keaton should return to continue the legacy of Batman. I keep thinking Batman Forever and Batman and Robin were never made, and it was all just a horrible nightmare.

Though Nolan did a fairly good job with Batman Begins, Dark Knight, and the upcoming Dark Knight Rises.

But who else can they have as villians?

[Staremonemesis]

@winxclublover Who's gonna be the villain in Dark Knight Rises? Nolan already totally wasted Scarecrow and Two Face, both of whom deserved their own movies, and if Penguin's too cartoonish, who isn't? Maybe Bane?

[TheDp321]

@Staremonemesis bane is batmans ultimate threat so yeah

and bane isn't a moron like in the other film he was in

[The90slim90]

@Staremonemesis Hell yeah it is bane!

[KaitainCPS]

@winxclublover

How do you know Nolan's done a good job with the new movie?

[Teleisawesome]

Penguin has a special place in my heart, being he was the first villain I felt really bad for and cheered for (up until he wanted to kill kiddies). I was a little kid and the Penguin was the first "deep" villain I had seen in action or at least paid attention to.

Shame the Penguin in the regular comics is as much of a tragic character. Sure he was picked on his entire life, but he didn't live the hellish life of Burton's Penguin.

[Johnlindsey289]

@Teleisawesome

What did you think of TAS Penguin?

[Teleisawesome]

@Johnlindsey289 I didn't love TAS... but I don't HATE their version of the Penguin. I dug his look (giving him crested Penguin hair was actually clever). He also had surprsingly cool fight scenes... some of the best fights in the show were Batman vs Penguin vs (insert third villain). I also liked the fact they tried too draw more parallels between him and Wayne. I always saw Penguin to Bruce Wayne as Joker is to Batman.

He was comical, but also a threat.

[PENS68]

I love this movie it has the classic dark Tim Burton feeling. This film caught alot of heat though because they said it was too dark for kids

[ColonelLarfleeze]

Screw the Ledger's Joker and Cillian's Scarecrow. NOTHING compares to the Penguin in this movie.

[MrUKFORLIFE]

@ColonelLarfleeze Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman did better than Danny Devito as Penguin in this movie alone.

1. Heath Ledger's Joker

2. Jack Nicholson's Joker

3. Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman

4. Danny Devito's Penguin

5. Aaron Eckhart's Two Face (He would have been higher up if he had more time as Two Face in the movie)

6. The rest.

[KyrenS64Gotham]

@MrUKFORLIFE I don't think your top 5 make any point, you can't compare different impressions of different character because they won't have the same treatment and the same graduation of madness. They all got complex mind so you can't just put them all in the same bag. But you can for exemple compare Heath's Joker and Nicholson's one.

[MrUKFORLIFE]

@KyrenS64Gotham I respectively disagree with you. I think you can make a list based on the caliber of acting alone. For example, the villains in Schumacher's Batman films were absolute jokes compared to the villains in the other four films based on the acting alone. Heath Ledger's Joker > Jim Carrey's Riddler based on the acting from both actors. I'm not going by the characters but how well the actors acted as those characters.. My list was based just on the acting, nothing else.

[GMVideos2K11]

Great job on all these man. Excellent and thank you. The Elfman/Burton combo is pure genius. Classic film and my favorite in the whole series. The music score is epic. Thanks for uping.

[opus289]

@GMVideos2K11 You're Welcome!

[nsLUNATIC]

The bit at 1:23 is fucking awesome.

[efan2011]

This sounds like it is from a horror movie

[NickHLR]

I think it starts to get really intense and awesome at 2:27 this truly is a great Batman movie even though it may be darker than others.

[LinzerXXII]

me encanta esta película, me entanta este sound track, nada me inspira tanto!!

[painlessissuicide]

why did you combine the two compositions?

[opus289]

@painlessissuicide That's the way it's presented on the cd. I didn't think about splitting them up at the time...

[painlessissuicide]

@opus289 I would think that 1 & 2 would be seperate...

[opus289]

@painlessissuicide I just put the cd back in & on Media Player it said cont. on Track 2, so that's why I put them together.

[painlessissuicide]

@opus289 well that makes no sense

[opus289]

@painlessissuicide I agree...

[Adastra14]

@painlessissuicide actually they make perfect sense as they blend into one another. like an overture and the main theme.

[67fansuper76]

1:03-2:20 is my fav part ^^

[leahlabat]

I wouldn't mind having the Penguin for a room-mate. Couple of blow torch umbrellas here and there, a few high-tech security cameras around, and a guy who can talk to penguins to me makes an awesome room-mate. Plus with a guy rooming with you like that, the land lord won't mess with anybody since Oswald can bite his f**king nose off. :)

[superspy6]

The real song starts at 2:27 !!!!!!!!

[jetibest]

@superspy6 no it doesnt. thats just another song. the song named Birth of a Penguin is till 2:27, and the song after that is the intro theme where the camera follows the penguinbabything.

[KyrenS64Gotham]

One of the best track of Danny Elfman. Batman Returns is better than the Nolan's Batman for me.

[heerogunkenobi]

@KyrenS64Gotham i agree ^_^

[spiderlolo100]

@KyrenS64Gotham hm i like both burton and tim equally but nolan is the first director to give comissioner gordon a real importance in the movie, but then again gotham being a shity city and heroes wearing latex ibnstead of spandex was burton's idea

[RD19902010]

@KyrenS64Gotham Batman Returns is better than Batman Begins, but The Dark Night beats Batman.

[KaitainCPS]

@RD19902010

Isn't every night dark?

[RD19902010]

@KaitainCPS haha, i meant Knight of course, you spellingnazi :-)

[Mirdala]

@KyrenS64Gotham Thats what I wanted to read!

[ShenSaiya]

@KyrenS64Gotham Nolan's Films just didn't feel like Gotham, too me! Burton's films had the eerie setting, like that of the comics!

[KyrenS64Gotham]

@ShenSaiya I think the problem of Nolan's movies is the aim of those : being realistic. Then, by trying it you change a lot of things. For example, the mob in Nolan's one are maybe modern but to me the gangsters of Gotham are cliché and have to be dressed with a smoking and remain in a 50-60s look while the city has to be a mixt between actual cities but also retro ones like in Batman TAS, which is the best animated show I've ever seen. That way you can't really tell when the story takes place.

[funzi159]

@KyrenS64Gotham I agree with you, just adding that what Burton did, more than anything, was to turn Batman into a sort of misunderstood "freak" who lives at the edge of reality, and this is very close to the first portrait Bob Kane had in mind!! Nolan's films are great, but they miss the visual fantasy that Burton had, and most of all, Batman is too evident, while he is actually mysterious and dark, you rarely see him! Kane was also inspired by 1926 movie "The Bat", this says it all!!!

[KyrenS64Gotham]

@funzi159 Yes, I agree, Burton kept in mind that Batman is not a normal person. What Nolan just changed and made him like anyone else.

[funzi159]

@KyrenS64Gotham There is a lot of philosophy and moral teachings in Nolan's movies, instead, Burton's Batman is closer to edward Scissorhands or The Nightmare Before Christmas, a fantasy world inhabited by bizarre characters which have nothing to do with reality!!! You're right when you say Nolan turned into a human being, he is actually a sort of "freak of nature", like The Joker, The Penguin and Catwoman!!!

[KyrenS64Gotham]

@funzi159 But still, I find the Burton's Batman quite realistic for a fantasy universe.

[funzi159]

@KyrenS64Gotham Sure they are, it's always Batman after all! But try and compare Nolan's and Burton's Batman, isn't the second like a real fairy tale?? Even more in the second one, "Batman Returns", a sort of dark fairy-tale without good heroes and only misunderstood creatures! It is just because Batman has no super power and he is a man, but I'm sure Burton would have loved to turn it into a Jack Skellington with Gotham being his Hallowe'en Town!!!

[KyrenS64Gotham]

@funzi159 I totally agree with what you're saying but still, Burton made a Batman more closer to the comics than Nolan. In Burton's movies, Batman looks more cold and darker (also because he's, like you said, some kind of freak) but still when he's in the suit you can see that he's not playing a part. Whereas Bale is faking his voice and Bruce Wayne seems more like him. In Burton's movies you can see that Bruce is just a mask, you can still feel Batman in him.

[funzi159]

@KyrenS64Gotham I agree, but we also have to consider the many variants of Batman that have been developed along the years! The original Batman as conceived by Bob Kane is surely closer to what Burton produced, also because Kane himself was involved in the project, while he was not involved in none of Nolan's movies! Thus, Burton's Batman is definitely the more faithful, with that spoon of Tim Burton's grotesque "freaks" to complete the whole recipe! Absolutely amazing for me!!!

[tikifreakazoid]

Does anyone else find it ironic that the sets and costumes in the franchise got MORE ridiculous when Burton left?

[heerogunkenobi]

@tikifreakazoid i do

[Nightfox00rougehero]

No he wouldnt be at BK XP thatguyKarl/he has his parents $ or he will just steal him some.

[natetvisa]

thank you for covering both batman movies im downloading them for my lego vids so thanks alot

[stay666metal]

i love Michael Keaton as Batman

[liltd87]

@stay666metal I think we all do!

[Mirdala]

@stay666metal FUCK, Imlove Micheal as Batman, he truely brought Batmans darkside to life!

[void735]

@stay666metal he was indeed the best Batman

[ChrisTheChocobo]

My favorite Batman movie of all time and my first movie in my life:) i love everything of this movie

[killingjoke99]

@ChrisTheChocobo same here haha first movie i was introduced to as a child lmao.

[Nightfox00rougehero]

Maybe Oswald would have been nice if his parents didnt abandon him.

[thatguyKarl]

@Nightfox00rougehero Oswald would be the guy mopping up at burger king that you felt sorry for.

[WarioLoaf2D]

great great great. but .. .why is Danny's name over Michele's head?

[mattiMAYHEM]

@WarioLoaf2D on posters they usually write the names of the stars from left to right (reading direction) in order of popularity or how well known they are to try to sell the film on the stars that are in it

Apparently the stars stand out to us more if the appear in the order we'd read :) Hope that helps :)

[Khrystan]

One of my faves, ever!!

[cetrix1]

While the Movie was a bit disjointed and, at times, a bit silly(Marching Penguins); the themes, the ideas, the characters...all of these things are done so much to perfection that you forgive every flaw the movie has.

[vampire891208]

this is beautiful

[adamdx6789]

yo i want the song from 2:30-538

[gonnerman00]

@adamdx6789 Birth Of A Penguin (Part 2)

[TheDarkKnight980]

Sometimes I just watch this movie and tons of others just to here the score.

[BuellerBueller95]

@TheDarkKnight980 same here

[Kelismoviesmoothie]

This and the catwoman theme are my faves, this is such an amazing film, Tim Burton puts all these dark (literally black costumed) characters into an original film to watch more than once! XD

[hallegear]

I sometimes wonder if soundtrack was actually made before scene was recorded...this just goes so well with story.

[Derdoppelgaenger]

@hallegear Actually, both while the film is being made and after it has been edited. Elfman writes down a few ideas, themes, etc, during shooting, then shapes it all so that it fits the edited film.

[funnystarchild]

Masterpiece!!!!!

[negativo44]

I just love this song