Batman wasn't kid friendly.  By this I mean under 10.  It was dark and mean and , for kids, a slow buildup with many slow dialogue scenes, and the Scarecrow was too intense for many of them.  And it is violent.
But every kid is different.

The second time I saw it, the two kids behind me kept saying "Where's Batman, Where's Batman" throughout the whole first half or so of the movie.

Eric Kleefeld wrote: The witch in the story of Hansel and Gretel wanted to eat children. A machine gun is nothing next to that.

Weren't the Grimms stories for adults and most of the modern retellings, more Disney like and kid friendly?  Far less intense.  It is all in the presentaion, not necessarily the motive.  The witch can be goofy or terrifying.

Though i don't think the Incredibles was too much not kid-friendly.  What was it PG?  Yeah, definitely not a G film, but most kids over 6 or so should be fine.

Jacob P Secrest wrote: I'm gonna be checking here http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=comicbookadapt ation.htm often to see if "Batman Begins" beats out the original "Batman". Come on, you can do, show that Tim Burton who's boss. It's great to see it getting such early good responses, I loved it.

adjusted for inflation, BATMAN (1989) made $402 million, Batman Returns $251 million, Batman Forever $270 million and Batman and Robin $150 million.

It will not beat Batman.  It may even wind up 4th out of 5 (or 6 if you count the cartoon Mask of the Phantasm's puny take)

The media will proclaim how much better it did, unadjusted, because they rarely take into account inflation.

Zaki Hasan wrote: BATMAN BEGINS took in an additional 6.6 mil on Monday, bringing its total up to just under 80 million.  At this pace it may end up overshooting Warners' one-week estimate of 85 million by one day -- a reassuring sign that this flick is going to have some traction going into its second weekend.

If it makes $5 million tomorrow, that is one week.  Wednesday to Tuesday is 7 days.  Right on target.

Leroy Douresseaux wrote: Halle Berry, hmmmm.  I noticed that, although filmmaking is a collaborative process in which many hands and minds are involved, in the case of certain movies only a particular group of people are singled out as the reason for particular films' failure, finacially or artistically.  It's almost as if they're the... black sheep of the filmmaking community.

Catwoman was not as bad as I thought.  That said, it wasn't great, but it wasn't Halle's fault It was lousy writing, lousy story, lousy costume.  And lets face it, like Elektra, we're not talking about an A list starring character.