Awesome find
Y'know, I was just thinking about it and I realized that I have very similar feelings about both TDKR and Returns. That is, both films I think are improvements over their predecessors in just about every way but the story.
But while I thought the story in both BB and TDK was amazing and thus TDKR left me disappointed, I never cared for the story in '89 too much and so Returns is my favorite of the Burton films.