His choice to play Batman was initially criticized by fans.The film""s tagline: Who Will WinThe film""s plot pitted Superman/Clark Kent against Batman/Bruce Wayne as the red-caped hero battled his long-time nemesis Lex Luthor." They entered with the ploy that Mathayus was returning the unconscious, notorious horse thief Arpid for the bounty on his head.""Cause it""s scarce.Howard: A thousand men, say, go searchin"" for gold.After six months, one of ""em""s lucky - one out of the thousand.His find represents not only his own labor but that of 999 others to boot.That""s uh, 6,000 months, uh, 500 years scrambling over mountains, goin"" hungry and thirsty.An ounce of gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that went into the findin"" and the gettin"" of it.It satirizes and skewers film-making, family life and marriage, banking practices, and small-town behavior, in a series of short sketches.