Someone obviously didn’t read anything about Ra’s al Ghul…

A new so-called family movie came out shortly ago, called Hoot, and it seems that the emphasis is on eco-terrorism. (and at the box office). But what’s really a shame is that the * clearly didn’t ever read a thing about Ra’s al Ghul, the Bat-nemesis who was quite an eco-terrorist in his time. of one of Batman’s most craftiest foes:

Ra’s’s goal is a world in perfect balance, a goal he will achieve at any cost. Since he believes that the best way to do so is to eliminate most of , he may be regarded as an bent upon global . That he has the means to achieve his goal makes him extremely dangerous and brings him into frequent conflict with Batman. Ra’s usually tries to assault the world’s human populace with a , such as a .

The Hoot movie, pried from a Carl Hiaasen novel, may not go quite as far as Ra’s did, but ecoterror is still ecoterror, and what a shame that these days, putting emphasis on lawbreaking is the attempted norm of the moviemakers. After all, isn’t threatening people with deadly weapons, whether or not they be alligators, and kidnapping, among the many crimes Ra’s specialized in? Indeed. And the director of Hoot should be ashamed of himself for promoting acts of violence in the movie almost like what Ra’s did to his innocent targets years ago.

It’s true that animals, even owls, have rights, but it pales in comparison with the subject of human rights. And promoting violation of human rights for the sake of animal rights, not to mention breaking the law, which superheroes wouldn’t approve of, is a bad example.

More on the movie from: , , .

* Argh, why must the browser window narrow itself whenever I access that page!