[innerSpaceman]

The Batman growl was my second-biggest complaint.

Spoiler:

Someone pointed out to me that it was used in the first film for very short sentences and primarily to criminals he was trying to intimidate. This time, long speeches to friends Gordon and Dent, and it was so silly it kept pulling me out of the film.

The thing that bugged me most was how rambling and chaotic the plot was. Perhaps chaotic was a purposeful choice, reflecting the Joker's intention. But I found it confusing and structurally unsatisfying. The bit where Batman and Rachel escape from the Joker at the fund raiser ... but the film just cuts to the next day ... leaving unresolved the psychopathic killer still in the ballroom with a roomful of defacto hostages and his intended victim, Harvey Dent, simply hidden in a closet. WTF?

Oddly, it reminded me of a similar cutaway in Tim Burton's Batman where the menace of the Joker was unresolved in a scene with Kim Basinger's character in her apartment when it was suddenly cut away from.

Minor complaints, though. Overall, I loved the film.