This isn't a great movie. I will admit that Tim Burton creates, in Gotham City, a very intriguing place of darkness and corruption. However, nothing much happens there. The film is all set-up and not much pay off. The first 20 minutes of the film are engaging and, quite frankly, the best Batman stuff I've ever seen. However, it all goes downhill from there. Joker feels like a dillousional circus clown, not a satanic villain. Also in the beginning of the film, we are given two cool heroes: Vicky Vale and Bruce Wayne (Batman). The movie also gives us a sexy romance between them. However, soon afterwards, these characters become stale. They are so boring, we have to be reminded to root for them. This movie reaches greatness, then falls down into complete ludicracy. In the end, you will feel let down. Two scenes mainly make this film inapropriate for kids. In the first, Joker shoots a man multiple times to carnival music. You see the man's body, and blood on his desk. Later, Joker electrocutes a man, leaving a charred skeleton behind. Some people die in creepy ways, becoming like Joker right before they die. There is brief mention of Vicky and Bruce sleeping together, but nothing is shown. Language can get coarse: "SOB"s, "d*ck", "d**n", "b****rd", and "a*s".

One of the best, if not the best superhero movie. My kids liked it. There are two sh** words within the first 10-15 minutes of the movie, with the rest of the film consisting of the normal swearing.

I'm a huge fan of the Batman comic books, and I've loved the series since I was a four year-old. What I am genuinely surprised about is how no one even went into the grotesqueness of some of the stuff the joker does (He permanently disfigures his girlfriend for kicks). There are also a whole bunch of double entendres, not to mention the Joker has an extremely unhealthy fixation on Vicki Vale. I first saw this at age ten, with my Uncle and to be honest this is my favorite Batman movie thus far, but before you let your kids watch this you need to know whether they are mature enough to watch this stuff. And also depending on your kids age it may not be something they can watch due to some of its contents. It's a great movie, but just be sure your kids are okay to watch it before you play it for them.

Our 10 and 12 year olds watch a lot of movies, but the extended scene with the creepy electrocuted corpse was too much for my 10 year old. Jack Nickolson's Joker was theatrically sadistic, which crosses a particular line with young children. We had to stop the movie, though half of the family could have continued watching and would have rated this movie OK. The movie moves a bit slow, and it is amazing how much has changed in movie making and technology since 1989.

There is tons of violence... A guy gets electrocuted quite gruesomely. (That is the worst of it, but there are a lot of fights, often people have blood on their face, etc.) 2 or 3 S-words, a B---h and a Bas----. A man calls another nam a D--k. Thats about it. We see a man and a woman kissing each other with her back against the wall. The scene then cuts to the next morning where the two are lying on a couch besides each other. (All clothes are on) The woman says later on in the movie, " I even SLEPT with you!" We also see a painting of a naked woman, very briefly, several times. We see EVERYTHING. There is also a painting of a man and a woman, we see the man's naked rear. He appears to be "engaged" with the woman. We can only see her head and shoulders, but she to appears to be naked. This painting gets a lot of screentime, but from a safe distance.

Are you kidding? 9+? This film was very violent and brutal. Common Sense Media should know better. How could 9 year olds handle this, you idiots?