THE LIGHT KNIGHT RISES
15-minute section from and you’ll find more jokes than the entirety of . This fun wish-fulfilment story — lonely foster kid finds himself transformed into a brawny hero — is a world away from the faux-realism of Christopher Nolan’s films or the Jesus metaphors of the early DC extended universe films. Following the similarly fantastical before Christmas and cheerier Marvel hits like or in the last couple of years, marks a change of emphasis in our superhero movies. comic-book laughs If made comic-book movies respectable, this is the era where they stop playing cool and just try to be themselves. And these lighter, funnier results might be just what audiences stressed by the wider world need right now.
