The Joker is the star of the show

Advantages: Bale and Ledger make a world class team
Disadvantages: None

...-Face" Dent (Aaron Eckhart), who seems to be fearless in the face of criminals and thinks nothing of trying a room full of men and having 500 of them jailed at one time. It would seem that Dent is untouchable and is the man of the moment, while Wayne is the playboy millionaire who likes nothing better than to throw a good party. Batman's newest nemesis comes in the form of deranged bank robber The Joker (Heath Ledger), who's favourite hobby seems to be causing anarchy wherever he goes. He starts by robbing banks and graduates to trying to take over the local mobs of Gotham. Lt James Gordon (Gary Oldman) is on the sidelines as he was in the last film, although within this film he does have a more pivotal role in the storyline. He is firmly on the side of Batman and wants nothing more than to take all the criminals and throw them all in jail...

bonsi6337 27.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Dark Knight (DVD)

The Joker and that Bat Person

Advantages: The Joker
Disadvantages: Waay tooooo looooong, too violent for kids, silly Batman

...Gotham City is experiencing yet another crime wave at the hands of the mafia and the Joker, who are intent to turn Gotham into a free-for-all for criminals. New District Attorney, Harvey Dent, is determined to get to the bottom of matters, along with James Gordon and Bruce Wayne, who leads a double life as Batman. Some progress is made, but the Joker keeps turning up and thwarting their every move. Can Batman rid the city of the menace that the Joker has become? Or is the Joker's psychopathic nature finally going to turn the tables on Batman and law enforcement in Gotham for good? I should note right here that I usually stay well clear of superhero films. They never have appealed to me, and apart from the Batman series that was on the television in the seventies, I have never seen Batman in action. However, with Heath Ledger's death...

sunmeilan 10.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Dark Knight (DVD)

The Unknown Quantity

Advantages: Original; clever; storytelling lyrics
Disadvantages: None (seriously)

...Right, that's enough book-reviewing, CD-R burning, monitor-bashing and lyric-analysing. It's back to the gramophone for me..... WHO'S THIS THEN? ----------------------------- It's Thea Gilmore, a 26 year old singer and songwriter from Oxfordshire. She's been peddling her particularly beguiling brand of thoughtful acoustic pop since around 1997. Rules For Jokers is her third album, from 2001, and rates as possibly the finest female album I've heard for ages. THE TRACKS -------------------- GIven that Ms GIlmore is certainly a wordy and literate songwriter, I've included my ususal track descriptions and marks out of five, along with a best line section. Enjoy. **1. Apparition No.12 (2:43)** A super start to the album with Thea strumming along unaccompanied in an uptempo manner. Some great lyrics are heard throughout...

waynehorrigan 04.10.2004 · Read review
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Review of Rules For Jokers - Thea Gilmore

Including the Jokers

Advantages: Funny and true, great writers on their first book. Plenty of places described in detail, as well as the events
Disadvantages: Won't appeal to everyone

...-used shortening of the famous name. While shuffling cards on the train back to London, Danny bets Dave that he can't find 54 Dave Gormans, that's one for every card in the pack including the jokers, little knowing what effect this will have on the next six months of his life. The fact that this is a completely true story of obsession is what makes it so compelling, as well as the humorous way it is written. Dave and Danny take turns in narrating the adventure, using a bold typeface for the extravangant Dave and a more plain and straightforward font for the often curmudgeonly, tokenly-sensible Danny. This mixed narrative makes it all very funny, as although their views are slightly exaggerated (I hope), they manage to keep the balance of "we're doing something great" and "what the hell are we doing?" perfectly. There is never any feeling of bias...

gunmenoftheapocalypse 10.12.2003 · Read review
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Review of Are You Dave Gorman? - Dave Gorman

Batman Beyond Bad

Advantages: Different Batman suits
Disadvantages: Bland graphics, horrible music, lacking play, short

...In Batman of the Future (or Batman Beyond depending on where you are) the identity of Batman is assumed by Terry McGinnis with Bruce Wayne having retired from the role. The animated film Batman of the Future: Return of the Joker - which this beat-em-up was released to coincide with - sees a comeback for Batman's archenemy of old, though Bruce is certain it cannot be him so it is up to Batman to investigate. Before a level begins you get to choose from one of four Bat Suits: Standard, Defensive, Offensive and Nimble - each with their varying abilities as well as unique moves. You can put some moves together but unfortunately a severe lack of balance has meant that a number of attacks are near useless. Ironically, it is the Defensive outfit which edges it in terms of dishing out damage. As a beat-em-up the combat is far from...

scream4bruce 25.07.2007 · Read review
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Review of Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (N64)

The easy way to clean your keyboard

Advantages: It is easy to use
Disadvantages: It only clears dust and debris not stains

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Review of Joker Cyber Clean

Batman Play set comes with Batman and Joker

Advantages: IT CAN CHANGE INTO AT LEAST 3 DIFFERENT TOYS
Disadvantages: awkward to change -kids need help

...get the set out of the box as it came you are looking at 2 figures.You get Batman and Joker. So we have 2 figures as mentioned above and then we have the main part of the set which looked to be a Bat-mobile . Now I say 'looked to be' as it just looked like a plain Bat-mobile which of course if thats all it was would still be very cool . But as the box kind of gives away the fact that there is more to this car then just a car and the fact that I had already seen what it does before hand it was time to have a go at showing my son. I quickly realised that I didn't really have much of a clue as to how to get the car we had just got out of the box to look like the play /battle station that was showing on the front of the box and in the instructions. The more I looked at it the more complicated it seemed to be to do and there was more...

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Review of Mattel Batman Dark Knight Battle Station

Gypsy gypsy joker, get a red hot poker...

Advantages: Great read, well written, realistic characters.
Disadvantages: Somewhat dated in a few respects, hard to get hold of nowadays.

...one. Then things begin to change. First, the interfering Mrs. Cuthbert takes it upon herself to report Kizzy for not attending school and she is soon informed that she has to. The children see her as being different, an outsider, and make her life a misery with their teasing – particularly Mrs. Cuthbert’s snobby daughter, Prudence. Kizzy is called names and taunted – ‘tinker’, ‘gypsy gypsy joker, get a red hot poker’ and with spiteful jibes about selling flowers and clothes pegs. But worse is yet to come as her Gran dies. Now Kizzy has no one to look after her and nowhere to live. What is going to happen to her and how will she cope, as she is forced to change her lifestyle and conform? The rest of the book is about her journey and of course, I don’t want to spoil it by telling you...

KarenUK 10.02.2004 · Read review
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Review of The Diddakoi - Rumer Godden

The Dark Carnival Presents Joker Card No 5

Advantages: One of their better albums - Many great hits
Disadvantages: Not to everyones tastes

...and have been branded extremely vulgar and violent. Background info to The Amazing Jeckel Brothers!!! On May 25th 1999 the fifth Joker's Card was released entitled The Amazing Jeckel Brothers. An original concept thought up by ICP. Many years before they became famous Violent J had thought up the idea of The Dark Carnival. This was where a number of malevolent and benevolent beings lived and through these beings he wanted to be able to express all the conflict that lay deep down inside him. After being signed and keeping within the Dark Carnival concept they wanted to realise their albums as 'Jokers Cards' and managed to release their first 6 albums through this idea. This album debuted at Number 4 In the American Billboard Charts out of the Top 200 and is currently up for Platinum Certification helping to bring my point across...

NuttySpursFan 21.03.2006 · Read review
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Review of Amazing Jeckel Brothers, The [PA] - Insane Clown Posse

Would make the Joker cry...

Advantages: Nothing, unless you are an absolutely die hard fan or collector
Disadvantages: EVERYTHING.

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AydanWatkins 23.02.2009 (26.02.2009) · Read review
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Review of Batman Forever (Mega Drive)