"He has the most wonderful toys"

Ten Coolest Movie Scenes



#9 - When Batman saves Vicky Vale from the Joker

Yes sir. In my preadolecent years, I remember watching this scene in the movie theater and saying to myself "Someday, I will have cool grappling hooks like Batman and save a chick at least as hot as Vicky Vale.

For those of you who don't remember the scene, Vicky Vale is invited out to lunch through an invitation which seems to come from her one-night stand all-star Bruce Wayne. When she gets there, Joker gases the place, leaving poor Vicky alone with the Joker. (Kim Basinger hasn't aged well -- am I the only one who noticed?) Then *KAPOW* Batman crashes through the ceiling, grabs Vicky Vale, shoots a grappling hook into Joker's face (not really violent, because, although pointed at him, it shoots into the ceiling) and then rushes out of the museum. Joker's reaction is fantastic: "He has the most wonderful toys."

Question raised: Why do the coolest toys break stuff? Give a kid a choice between a rubber mallet and a jack hammer and you'd better believe your sidewalk's going to need repaving. Give the Gopher a choice between a grappling hook which tears up museum walls (do you know how much it cost the curator to repair those?) and a grappling hook that child-friendly and man, you'd better believe the walls are coming down.