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...book superhero Batman was the ultimate stuffed shirt, a crimefighter so morally upright that he would wait for a red light to change before following criminals across the street. In a bizarre world of Penguins and Riddlers, Batman was the perfect straight-man. He never realized how fundamentally weird Gotham city was, and that's why the show was funny...
...sense of moral righteousness. He does it because he is obsessed. He likes to scare the hell out of crooks by dangling them off the edge of skyscrapers. He enjoys slinking around in the dark, vanishing and reappearing without warning in the thick mist that envelops Gotham...
There is nothing funny about this crimefighter. He also seems to have no qualms about crossing against the light, judging from the way he ploughs through the streets of Gotham in his snazzy black Batmobile...
...that eats the skin off his body but doesn't damage his signature deck of cards; when he gaily vandalizes some classic paintings, the film spells the museum's name two different ways; and when he starts tossing $20 million in cash onto the street, the good people of Gotham don't go into a looting frenzy and attack his perch. More important, the picture's first hour poses one big question: How will ace photographer Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger) react when she learns that Bruce is Batman? We never find out; the revelation occurs offscreen...
...scenario, Batman interrupts a Napier heist and allows the crook to fall into a vat of toxic waste. Jack emerges as the Joker and leads a crime wave, concocting a formula to be injected into cosmetics that twists the victim's face into the Joker's awful leer. Soon Gotham is a city of the grinning dead, and only Batman can revive it, with the help of Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger), frontline photojournalist and all-time fabulous babe...