MichellePfeiffer is back in the comic genre with AntManandtheWaspQuantumania, a bad film that reminds fans how she was robbed of her own Catwoman movie.
You can tell Peyton Reed is a fan of Michelle Pfeiffer from the moment Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania starts. The actress appears in the opening sequence, demonstrating more vitality and giving a more believable performance in front of what is obviously a green screen than most Marvel actors half her age.
Although ostensibly a film about Batman, Batman Returns is more concerned with the freaks that terrorize Gotham instead of the Dark Knight who protects it. Michael Keaton is still the best live-action Batman we’ve had, but the film isn’t about him. Instead, it’s about Pfeiffer’s Catwoman and Danny DeVito’s Penguin, a beauty and the beast pairing right up Burton’s alley.
To say Pfeiffer was Oscar-worthy is an understatement. Her transformation scene, accompanied by Danny Elfman’s thunderous score, is among the most iconic moments in superhero cinema. It’s camp brilliance, a tour-de-force performance that stays with you for good. You could ask a thousand actresses to pull this scene off, and a thousand would fail. There’s a method to Selina’s madness, and Pfeiffer nails it while making it seem effortless.
The film sounds, for the lack of a better word, nuts. Waters let his freak flag fly with it, and it shows. Per his own words, the Catwoman film he wanted to make wasn’t the one Burton wanted to make. Their visions clashed as the ’90s continued, with Pfeiffer and Burton eventually moving on to other projects and losing interest in the Catwoman adventure.
Let’s be real here. Try as they might, no actress has ever topped Pfeiffer in the role. Not Halle Berry in Catwoman and not Anne Hathaway in The Dark Knight Rises. Zoë Kravitz came close in The Batman, but she was still no match. Pfeiffer’s performance is engraved into the pop culture’s subconscious, an idol against which we measure not only every other Catwoman, but every female villain in comic book movies. Pfeiffer is the definition of iconic, and we must stop denying it.
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