Product: Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (2005)
Rating: 3.0
Batter, Batter, Batter, A Swing and a Miss
"Batman Begins" to take the foul taste out of my mouth left by Joel Schumacher's versions. Christian Bale looks the part of Bruce Wayne, and you can believe he's a spoiled millionaire, oh that's right, he's a billionaire now, who secretly believes in noblesse oblige. However the movie overall was too much of a recap. The idea of the brooding Batman is getting old too.When Bob Kane and Bill Finger first established Batman's tragic background it was almost as an after-thought, tacked on to their sixth issue, followed by a seperate adventure. I would suspect the idea of the hero as an orphan was to make it's easier for him to keep a secret identity. We can't have his mother sewing his name into his Bat-panties. Batman is like the gunslinger from the old Westerns who saddles up to the saloon bar to say, "I'm looking for the man who shot my pa."The "dark Batman" appeared well before Frank Miller, and came out almost immediately after the campy TV series to help us forget the show. I suspect they were trying to compete with Marvel Comics moody heroes like the Thing, the Hulk, Captain America, and Spiderman. The first two were monsters, CA was out of time and place, and if Spiderman's aunt wasn't in the hospital, he was fighting his allergies. However, "Batman Begins" is nothing to sneeze at.