13 Biggest Mistakes The Batman Movies Ever Made

The Dark Knight trilogy is widely noted, and in many quarters celebrated, for being the most down-to-earth of all comic book movie series. In line with the central character's total lack of superpowers, the trilogy is set in a world not unlike our own where superpowers do not exist, and the science behind Batman's gizmos is presented in plausible enough a manner to make you think that all this could just possibly happen for real.

Hand-in-hand with this, Nolan stepped away from other excesses of the superhero genre, notably including the overt sexualisation of the the characters and their bodies (not to say that Bale doesn't have a few shirtless scenes that are a bit on the gratuitous side).

It's curious, then, that while trilogy closer The Dark Knight Rises continues down the more grounded and serious path of the previous two films, it also chose to introduce Anne Hathaway as Catwoman, and presented her in a rather cheesecakey way, what with all her black rubber, killer heels, and propensity for bending over a lot.

Hathaway seems incapable of giving a truly bad performance, and she certainly doesn't do a bad job with what's given to her. It just feels rather out of tune with everything else in The Dark Knight Rises, not to mention a bit of an afterthought given how many other characters are at play in the film.

Plus, after Michelle Pfeiffer totally owned Catwoman in Batman Returns, and that film gave the character such a healthy share of the spotlight, Hathaway never really had much chance to make the role her own.

Although she beats Halle Berry by a country mile, obviously. (And again, 2004's Catwoman doesn't count as a Batman movie.)