went and saw the much hyped new batman film, and for entertainment value, i have to say, the hype is well deserved. it's quite long at about two and a half hours, but only at the end do you really notice. it's got a bunch of stars in it, but obviously everyone talks about the late heath ledger as the joker, and once again, that is deserved as he does steal the show. he plays a psychotic crook with nothing on his mind but anarchy, and he does it well, probably the best character (in a non comedy) that i can remember (maybe the hired gun in no country is close). anyway, about the film, basically batman has cleaned up the city, and all the crooks are running scared. in steps the joker wanting to bring terror back to the streets of gotham city.
he succeeds in killing a lot of people and bringing mayhem and chaos to the people by turning them against each other. harvey two face makes a brief appearance (i haven't read this (or any) version(s) of the batman comics, but in cartoons that i've seen he is a recurring character, not this one obviously), but i didn't find that that part added tremendously to the film. it almost seemed like a bit of an add on to prolong the film a bit, and not particularly necessary. it doesn't matter though, it was a good film, and probably one that you want to get on blu-ray and watch on your true hd tv 
(along with most of will ferrell's films haha).
pic taken from the wikipedia site.
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