The Dark Knight has redefined the superhero movie – adding realism, emotional depth and an unashamed intellect to the genre.

From now on, audiences will judge all other superhero movies by The Dark Knight’s yardstick, with badly-conceived, opportunistic stupidfests created solely as cynical money-making exercises being exposed for what they are.

In other utterly unrelated news, someone’s decided to make a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. A real, live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Whoops.