Immense.
A much more serious take on the batman story, set as if in real life. The Joker's performance was superb and his character one you can love as much as you love batman. The best villain I've ever seen.
Yet when some of my friends said that they think Heath was a better Joker than Jack, I disagree. Burton's take on the story is set in the comic book world of the dark Gotham city, with the fictional characters of the Joker and Batman, and in my opinion, the best performance from the Joker possible. Perfect for that film. And that goes with the music too... Elfman's style fits perfectly with the twisted, heroic, dark, comic book characters and settings. Perfect for that film. Yet Zimmer's (and you can so tell it was his score, very characteristic of the POTC scores) is minimal (using Barry's ideas of no music during fight scenes and showings off of beefy bat mobiles and fast cars and bike, as they do in the James Bond films) and under layered to mimic the seriousness and darkness of the Dark Knight film, again, perfect for that type of movie.
So all in all, probably one of the best films I've ever seen, the Joker spot on. But I don't think we should compare the films, because they are completely different, even with the well spotted scene by Thomas, in which they copy the original, where the Joker is egging on Batman to hit him. Yet in this film Batman is on a rather cool bike that I now want, aiming for a Joker with a proper pistol, rather than Batman in the Bat-wing aiming at a Joker with bright lights behind him and the most ridiculously large and long gun I've ever seen.
Hee hee heee har haaaaa har, hee, har.
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