Anne Hathaway Gets Catty!

Anne Hathaway, who first came to the Hollywood scene in The Princess Diaries, has is been cast as the Catwoman in Christopher Nolan's third, and last, series in his Batman films. Throughout the vast and unedited world of commenting on yahoo! stories the reaction was quicker than a cheetah: Hathaway apparently has no business in a catsuit as she is no Kiera Knightley, the supposed runner-up for the role.

However, Heath Ledger's performance in The Dark Knight was nothing short of brilliant and the late actor pushed the envelope and in my opinion, did a far better job as the Joker than his predecessor, Jack Nicholson. And that says a lot since I saw Tim Burton's Batman in the theater with my mom and my brother John and it is a shining memory from childhood.

But, to my point: Ledger was most well-known in the 2000s from Brokeback Mountain and 10 Things I hate About You. And guess what? Both those movies targeted women. They were love stories. One high-brow, one more teeny bobberish. So, Ledger didn't exactly have a bona-fide bad guy resume at all before the joker, yet he excelled. So, I think the same leeway should be afforded to Hathaway. Moreover, the young actress has at least one high-brow bad girl role: Rachael Getting Married. In it she plays the sister of Rachael, and she is just home from rehab and was a pretty bad girl who brought the usual torment to her family that drug addicts bring to the table. Granted it was a chick-flick, but she made the movie enjoyable and shined in it. She also starred in Havoc, a film about a rich, spoiled teen from a wealthy area in LA and she pulled that role off too, by changing from a teen looking for fun to full-fledged girlfriend of a dangerous gangbanger from East LA. She received praise from Christopher Null, of filmcritc.com, who wrote that Hathaway's performance proved "without a doubt that she has been underutilized as an actress for far too long."

Ironically, she was a voice in the anime movie, The Cat Returns. Yes, she does so Michelle Pfeiffer meet Anne Hathaway. I, for one, think Hathaway will, at the very least, scratch at the threads of Pfeiffer's much praised performance from Batman Returns and give her a run for her money--or, in this case, milk.