It should be a stunt, hiring a man of Colin Farrell's particular good looks and physicality to play the Penguin, a venal creature of the Gotham City underworld. Not because the Penguin is actually subhuman,

Sure, the infamous city of the one and only Batman has always been portrayed in comics, movies and television as a seedy, crime-infested hellscape with a few skyscrapers thrown in. The cops are dirty,

Colin Farrell looks completely different in "The Penguin," thanks to several hours a day in a makeup chair. Taking it off was "next level" relief.