The Dark Knight is the best super hero movie of all time. Also one of the best movies of this decade. In this sublimely made film Christopher Nolan took the original batman and took everything that we liked and through that out the window and made a movie with everything that we loved instead. This time Nolan's usurped the original batman in every way possible. The film is Oscar worthy. James newton howard, and Hans Zimmer made one of the greatest scores to ever grace anyone's ears this decade. The score didn't just simply compliment the movie it enhanced every scene with its dramatic strings, and EPIC tribal drums. This historic ensemble was perfectly casted. Christian bale was his usually great self. With his portral of batman better than any other before him including himself in batman begins. Gary Oldman was great as the comish, Aaron eckhart stole almost every scene he had and was outstanding in his double role. Morgan Freeman was only in the film for around 10 minutes, and he made his presence felt with every scene that he was in. Maggie Gyllenhall was a new take on the Bale's love interest. While she is a couple of steps down from Katie holmes in beauty she makes it up with her superb acting ability. Oh, Mister Heath Ledger you will be remembered there is no doubt about that. You will be remembered for your unique roles, your preparation and your perseverance to your roles. All these qualites were executed in perfect sympthony in this movie. Mr. Heath Leader I'm pleased to say that you are the best joker ever, if the oscars would like to retain and credablity you will get nominated for an oscar, and win. For all the minacle roles people have played no one has ever done some one so surreal and menacing. He played the role to perfection. Heath was funny, crazy, menacing, and very ver SERIOUS for his portrayal of the joker. How is it compared to other super hero movies? Well Spiderman -2 was the past leader for super hero movies. Batman is on a different level, actually not even in the same atmosphere as spider man. Yeah it's that good. The movie had almost limitless hype and the movie overcame all that hype then brushed it off it's shoulder's. With all that said the summer started of with bang with iron man, and ended with 1,000,000 megaton boom with batman. Stops typing: and starts Applause.