All together now: why so serious?Yes, folks, in at number four, it's The Dark Knight. For my money, easily the best of the far-too-many Batman movies. I didn't really care for the previous film - the relaunch of the franchise, called Batman Returns or Batman Reloaded or Batman Strikes Back, I really could care less - but this one delivered real bang for your buck, and of course had a compelling star turn by Heath Ledger into the bargain.
What I really liked was the overall dark tone - comic-book noir, if you will - of the piece. Oh sure, Tim Burton's first movie had a gothic feel to it, but it was far too pantomime to really hit home (I'm looking at you here, Mr Nicholson). But for those of us who were around when Alan Moore's graphic novel first came out and completely reinvented this whole superhero thang, finally we could see it up on the big screen with this film. Oh yes. Pretty darn scary in parts too - you'll never look at a pencil in the same way again. (Though teachers have been aware for ages that a pencil counts as weaponry in the wrong hands...)
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