Assessing Nine Comic-Book Movies in 2011

Nearly every comic-book movie has either been great fun (The Dark Knight,Spiderman, X-Men, Iron Man) or so awful as to elicit anger (Batman and Robin,Spiderman 3, Fantastic Four, Catwoman). A middling comic-book movie is something of a rarity. So it’s with a bit of both excitement and trepidation that we look at 2011’s line-up of comic-book movies.