Did this movie disturb you as a child?

Didn't get the chance to - I was married with a child by the time this came out!

I was too young to watch Returns in theaters... but when I finally saw it at home a couple of years later I didn't even understand what was happening with the children since they are not featured-shown on screen, only mentioned very briefly as part of Penguin's evil plan... and I believe he only kidnaps Chip (Max's grownup son) who was probably older than my dad at the time of the movie lol.

I just thought that Penguin was a bad man, but was not afraid of being in any danger myself.

This was and still is my favorite Batman movie... my favorite scene is when Selina and Bruce figure out each other's real identity during the ball event.

Yeah, it creeped me out. You don't state your age, but I was 7 when it came out. I couldn't convince my parents to take me to the theater for it, but I saw it on video when it was still a recent release. Always creepy. Just the atmosphere, tone, the strange actions the characters commit. But that darkness adds to its mystique and allure as an adult, I still watch it at least once every holiday season

The Penguin was pretty creepy in this. It's the only Batman movie I don't watch every time it's on TV.

Yeah the kids being loaded into cages scared me as a kid.

Well I was already 26 when this film was released. I don’t remember thinking the movie was too morbid, mostly that Burton made the Penguin too freakish.

I always found Returns to be too stylised to take seriously, it looks like filmed theatre.

The first film had a better balance of Burton madness with some realism (plus Jack fucking Nicholson)

Nope. I was 10 when this came out. By then, I'd already watched total recall, Robocop 1&2, Predator, Tremors, Alien, Aliens, Batman, TMNT, From Beyond, Maximum overdrive, Platoon, Silence of the Lambs, terminator, etc...

My parents didn't impose restrictions on content aside from the Toxic Avenger on my 9th Birthday.