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Directed by: Leslie H Martinson
Cast: Adam West (Bruce Wayne/Batman), Burt Ward (Dick Grayson/ Robin), Cesar Romero (The Joker), Burgess Meredith (The Penguin), Frank Gorshin (The Riddler), Lee Meriwether (Catwoman)

These days it takes two years to make a Batman movie. Back in the ’60s, well, let’s just say the TV show premiered in January 1966 and this movie spin-off was in the cinema by July the same year. To be honest, it’s just an extended episode of the TV show, with little discernible increase in budget (although there are new bits of hardware on show, including a Bat Boat). But it’s fun, with four of the Caped Crusader’s best-known enemies teaming up to out-camp each other, then being soundly beaten by Batman. The stand out moment is Batman repelling a rubber shark with Bat Shark Repellant. Very silly, but eminently watchable.
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Directed by: Gavin Hood
Cast: Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), Liev Schreiber (Victor Creed), Danny Huston (William Stryker), Ryan Reynolds (Wade Wilson)

X-Men Origins: Wolverine may be remembered more as a scandal than a screen experience. A notoriously leaked workprint turned it into a poster child for torrent download culture; a Hollywood flashpoint that coincided with the blocking of Pirate Bay in a number of countries. It also ensured a level of media chatter that this adequate but middling piece of superhero cinema could never have won on its own.

Directed by: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Wesley Snipes (Blade), Kris Kristofferson (Abraham Whistler), Ron Perlman (Reinhardt), Luke Goss (Nomak)

After some not-too-great experiences on Mimic, Guillermo del Toro proved he could handle a big studio movie with this vampire follow-up. More than just a continuation of the first movie, Blade II sacrifices plenty of comic book conventions in favour of gore and its director’s obsession with twisted, grotesque monsters. While Wesley Snipes’s Blade is still a rather bland leading man, del Toro shakes things up by teaming him up with a team of vampire commandos on the trail of Luke Goss’s bloodsucker-plus Reapers. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that he found room for his future Hellboy, Ron Perlman, in the cast. Vampires don’t come much cooler. Shame about the bendy CG stunt doubles, though… Sometimes Blade appears to be fighting Morph.

Directed by: Bryan Singer
Cast: Brandon Routh (Clark Kent/Superman), Kevin Spacey (Lex Luthor), Kate Bosworth (Lois Lane),

There’s a mighty fine line between the second coming and a nostalgia trip. Not so much a reimagining as a preimagining, Superman Returns is so in thrall to Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie that you’re continually poised for a loving cameo from the pimp who told Christopher Reeve: “Whoa, Jim! That’s a bad outfit!”

Directed by: Louis Leterrier
Cast: Edward Norton (Bruce Banner/The Hulk), Liv Tyler (Betty Ross), Tim Roth (Emil Blonsky), William Hurt (General Ross)

In an effort to get the franchise back on track after Ang Lee’s “challenging” movie, The Incredible Hulk plays it straight down the middle. This is a no-nonsense commercial venture designed to appeal to fans and the masses alike. Certainly, the former are well catered for with a succession of not-terribly-subtle allusions and in-jokes: a snippet of the original TV theme tune; “D Banner” scrawled on a package; Lou Ferrigno as a security guard; a small-screen glimpse of Bill Bixby; references to both Nick Fury and SHIELD… Yup, this iteration certainly pays due homage to its comic book and TV heritage.

Directed by: Tom McGrath
Cast: Will Ferrell (Megamind), Brad Pitt (Metro Man), Tim Roth (Emil Blonsky), Tina Fey (Roxanne Ritchie)

Ollo! He’s blue, a dude, and smarter than you – that’s right, we’re talking about Megamind, Will Farrell’s contribution to the superhero genre and a worthy addition to the list. Why? Well, first and foremost, it’s a great twist on the Superman origin story – what if two kids escaped a dying planet, one crash landing some rich folks house and the other landing in jail? Secondly, it’s damned funny: Megamind’s crazy pronunciations alone had me in creases, and Will Farrell is clearly enjoying himself. The plot is full of enough twists and turns to put it up there with any number of live-action superhero movies, but what really makes it a fine example of super-powered film making is that it’s got a heart, and a great big mushy one at that. Entertaining family-based fare, well animated and with some great spins on traditional superhero tropes, Megamind’s big blue head thoroughly deserves its place on this list.

Directed by: Tim Story
Cast: Ioan Gruffudd (Reed Richards/Mr Fantastic), Jessica Alba (Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman), Chris Evans (Johnny Storm/The Human Torch), Michael Chiklis (Ben Grimm/The Thing), Julian McMahon (Victor Von Doom/Doctor Doom)

As source material goes, The Fantastic Four is an inky gift from the gods. One of the most important comic books of the last 50 years, it tore the industry from its slump, igniting the superhero revolution that brought us every Marvel big-hitter from Spider-Man to the Hulk. With Stan Lee’s hip scripts fused to Jack Kirby’s dynamite art, it delivered cheap, potent pulp thrills that set your mind to melt mode. It seethed with ideas, devouring huge concepts issue after issue – Galactus, The Eater Of Worlds! Rama-Tut, Pharaoh Of The Year 3000! The Inhumans! The Negative Zone! – but at its core were the people, a flawed family of heroes you cared passionately about.

Directed by: Martin Campbell
Cast: Ryan Reynolds (Hal Jordan/Green Lantern), Blake Lively (Carol Ferris), Peter Sarsgaard (Hector Hammond), Mark Strong (Sinestro), Temuera Morrison (Abin Sur)

Given the success Marvel were having with their “second tier” characters on the big screen (Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor... etc.) and their own box office breaking success with The Dark Knight, it’s no surprise DC had been eyeing up a piece of the B-list pie for years, settling on intergalactic copper Hal Jordan, aka Green Lantern, as its first subject.

Directed by: Timur Bekmambetov
Cast: James McAvoy (Wesley Gibson), Morgan Freeman (Sloan), Angelina Jolie (Fox), Terence Stamp (Pekwarsky)

Mark Millar’s comics mini-series Wanted contains all the elements that make him such a hugely entertaining writer, and such an aggravating one. To produce something palatable for multiplex audiences, this adaptation has had to chuck out a lot of the bathwater, and some might think the baby’s gone flying with it, too. It’s Millar-lite. In the comic, pathetic office-maggot Wesley Gibson learns his absent father (now deceased) was actually the Killer, a supervillain assassin in the world-ruling Meta-Human Criminal Network.