To the Bat Cave?

Rating: 2/10 (1 August 2008)

The good:
This movie was an improvement over the juvenile and cartoon like depiction of batman from the prior series.
The action was good. Heath Ledger did a great job as the joker. There was some decent character development on him.
I liked the cameo in the movie to the original TV comic TV series.
The bad:
Batman is not a comic (as in funny) figure, however that doesn't mean the movie has to be devoid of comedy to give peaks and valleys to the violence and disturbing trip down the dark shaft of the criminally insane that Batman journeys to.
The movie was as dry as a martini with humor. You wont find it.
Batman's voice when he has his cowl on is extremely annoying. It sounds like someone trying to talk tough who isn't.
No further character development of Bruce Wayne. The original Batman actually did a better job with this.
The whole fake death of commissioner Gordon seem forced into the plot like a square peg in a round whole.
Again, the movie makers depart from the Comic strip and kill off the Joker. Batman and the Joker are linked and in the comic book he goes through a deal of effort to make sure he lives.
Out of the three comic book to screen adaptations this summer: Batman, Iron Man, and the Hulk. The Hulk is best.