would course correct to a campier, family friendly version of the dark knight in Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever, a film that made considerably more money than Batman Returns. Spooked by the film's lack of inability to sell toys and Happy Meals, Warner Bros.
It was a decidedly darker affair than Batman 1989, and it also performed slightly worse than expected at the box office. Nicholson's hammy, slightly silly version of the Joker was replaced by Danny DeVito's grotesque Penguin, a deformed sewer dweller who hacked up black gunk and threatened to murder every firstborn child in Gotham. Batman Returns was released in the summer of 1992, despite the fact it actually takes place at Christmas, just one of the many odd aspects of the film.
But that next film was something of a curveball.
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