I’m not asking for the movie makers to go back to the Batman of the Adam West TV show or even the pre-Neal Adams Batman from the comics, when he’d occasionally face aliens from outer space or Bat-Mite would show up from time to time. But the dark, gloomy. heavily moody grim Batman films (and comic books) are getting tiresome (to me anyway).

The Marvel films proved that you can have exciting, serious storylines and inject some humor now and then. You don’t want to leave a Batman film down and depressed and looking to take a shower, to get rid of all the grime you just watched.