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As I was preparing to head out to the local theater to catch the latest installation in the Caped Crusader series, I started to wonder. Is there a dark side to the new batman movies? As a kid I devoured Batman comics and devoutly watched the weekly adventures of pudgy middle-aged Batman on TV. There are those who dismiss this iteration of Gotham’s prime detective as “campy” and “simple-minded,” but I was ten years old, and I didn’t know “campy” from “Camp Whats-it-to-ya.” And campy or not, there was a definite sunny side to the Adam West Batman stories. Mr. Freeze might freeze Batman and leave him a hanging icicle at the end of the episode, but there was no doubt in anyone’s mind that the following week, Batman would manage to escape this peril with nary a trace of frostbite.