An eighteen year old Chinese girl Sasha (played wonderfully by Ling Li) arrives at San Francisco airport with much weighed on her mind. Her intention is to get an abortion, no easy choice, but this is complicated by a sequence of events while she trails through the city. Her mind is full of sadness compounded by the fact that the father of the baby, after a one night stand in Beijing fails to acknowledge her and her plight.

It started off as a comic book, went on to be a wacky TV programe, loved by children of a certain generation, starring Adam West and it is now a lucrative series of films, but has the original idea evolved out all recognition, has the legacy of Batman been hi-jacked? I went to the present film offering, only out of curiosity to see the final performance by the late Heath Ledger, whose performance has been much lauded. In truth the actor reigns over this film and anything else is on the periphery.

A young man has a frightening array of demons in his mind. His mind is full of fantasy and anger. A psychiatrist would have to be in their prime to sort out his tangled mind. He is a young man who is prone to putting on war paint and a badger?s fur/head on his head, a bizarre choice of head gear His anger is centred on his step mother, his pain emanates from the shady (was it suicide or something more sinister, as he maintains) death of his mother, a death, he is far from capable of getting over. His home a tree house built by his father, has a sizable billboard like picture of his mother and he has mementos (including a dress) of her to sustain her memory.