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Critics dismiss the fourth installment in the Batman series as nonsensical kitsch, a "wild, campy costume party" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Director Joel Schumacher ( A Time to Kill ), a former window dresser, leans heavily on high-concept get-ups (villainess Uma Thurman sports a suit made from 450 Santa Claus wigs) in the apparent hope of deflecting attention from a script that "has the eerie feeling of having no beginning, no middle and no end" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Still, his overwrought attempts to make the film fun--fast editing, crashingly loud sound effects--end up making it "a punishing ordeal" (Alex Ross, Slate).
Among the elements of Lynch's self-plagiarism: an eerie soundtrack, creepy characters ( femmes fatales , scary thugs, ghoulish freak), and lots of tawdry sex.
Bats inhabit the darker recesses, but the eerie waters that flow through the cave have no fish.
As a matter of fact, his eerie self-possession is depicted as a tragic dislocation from life itself, a pitiable response to his father's brutality.
It's both comic and eerie to see how easily the free press of a free country can be co-opted into these pseudowars.