This is not a DVD review. I will leave it up to someone more qualified to rate the audio quality and video transfer of this DVD. This is merely a rant.

There are two flavors of this DVD - a single disc and a two disc Deluxe Edition with extra features. An employee of an unnamed store told me there was a problem with the Deluxe Edition because of the comic book on the second disc, and they only got eight of them, with no more coming. It looks like I can buy it from Amazon, though. So I do not know what he is talking about. And I cannot find anything about a problem with the DVD by searching through many sites.

Here comes the rant part. Even the two disc set has no commentary track by Christopher Nolan. While I would like to see the features (they do look impressive), I am not going to buy it if there is no commentary from the director.

After all, this is the best Batman movie ever made. I would have liked to hear what Nolan had to say. Oh well.

Now for the second rant of this three part series.

If you only buy the single DVD version of Batman Begins you get no special features. Well, okay, that is not exactly true. There is a "Special Features" menu setup. The one and only item found on this menu is the theatrical trailer. That's it. Oh boy, my heart is pounding. It is such a tease because the rest of the screen is blank, yearning for more than this single entry. Lame.

My best guess is that they used the same exact DVD menu layout from the Deluxe Edition and just deleted the special features found on the first disc of the Deluxe Edition. Again, lame. I have never seen such corner-cutting on a DVD before. I mean, I have seen some pretty badly created DVD menus in my time, but never have I been mocked because I did not spend the extra cash on the Deluxe Edition. Pathetic. Make a new menu for the no-frills version. Or better yet, just take out the trailer all together.