The composer brilliantly makes those characters’ thematic distinctions apparent, from a surging, heroic march for Batman and Robin to a piercing, voice-topped Theremin that suits the Riddler’s mind-controlling device and discordant rhythms that capture Two-Faces psychotically scarred mood swings. For despite all the shrieking brass runs and blaring orchestral bombast that relentlessly powers the film, there’s a definite method to Goldenthal’s madness for a “Batman” that relishes in its pseudo-analyzing of split identities. It was a way over the top pop art revamp that paid off handsomely on all counts, or at least the first time out in Schumacher’s case. Why should you buy it?: It’s no boy wonder that Goldenthal was Corigliano’s Robin, running with his master’s dissonant approach to blaze onto the Hollywood scoring scene with his brazen WTF work on “Alien 3,” “Interview with a Vampire” and “Demolition Man.” But even the latter cult film’s avant-garde zaniness didn’t come close to the colorful, blasting weirdness that Goldenthal gave to “Batman Forever,” an approach right in unrestrained tune with director Joel Schumacher’s attempt to return the film franchise to its lighter Adam West identity.
If anything, Goldenthal’s “Batman Forever” and “Batman and Robin” scores are like two alarm clocks, screaming through your senses as they mash together the 60’s jazz kitsch that Neil Hefti gave to the television show, along with the brash, brassy experimentalism of John Corigliano’s concert hall works in the 80’s- modernism that changed the face of film scoring with his soundtrack to “Altered States.”
What is it?: Where it seemed that the first two scores in the “Batman” franchise were as crazy as you could get with the Wagnerian approach to superhero scoring, then Elliot Goldenthal’s next two entries made Danny Elfman’s brilliant, demon circus takes seem positively somnambulant in comparison. To purchase the soundtracks from this list, click on the CD coverġ) BATMAN FOREVER: LIMITED EDITION (3,500 edition) ‘Star Trek Iv: The Voyage Home‘ Is One Of The Top Soundtracks To Own For January, 2012Īlso worth picking up: Animals United, Batman Forever, The Battle Of Neretva, The Beyond, Conan The Destroyer, Halloween 4, Man To Man And Underworld: Awakening
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