If nothing else, "Catwoman" is the first superhero action movie to focus on consumer protection. Because the evil its heroine is asked to thwart lies not in treacherous robots or a nuclear bomb or a madman threatening world domination but rather bad cosmetics. Pictures and the film's producers want to stake a potential franchise on a battle over bad makeup -- albeit a cream that causes faces to drip away, similar to what those Nazis suffered in "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

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