" Gordon ended the film with this voice-over:"Because he""s the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now.Plot SynopsisFilm""s Opening Sequence: Sows Taken to Market, and a Young Orphaned Runty Piglet:The film""s opening was a harrowing voice-over account (by off-screen melodious Narrator Roscoe Lee Browne) at a gigantic Australian hog farm where pigs were being loaded up into a truck to be taken away to market ("pig paradise"):"This is a tale about an unprejudiced heart, and how it changed our valley forever.Then while he watches, she gives him a contemptuous and haughty smile and adds insult to injury.She deliberately breaks the club over her knee and tosses he two pieces at him, and then marches back toward the front door.Evil.Austin""s time-travel device was a psychedelically-painted VW convertible, which propelled him (in a parody ofBack to the Future) to his Swinging 60s London pad where a disco party was in progress.His mother (Thelma Ritter in her film debut) leaned over and whispered: "Macy""s ain""t got any.Nobody""s got any." It was Santa""s first real test - would he follow Shellhammer""s advice or not? He promised the boy that he would fulfill his wish: "You""ll get your fire engine.