It was the photo that launched a thousand blog posts, tweets and message-board debates. Last week, the Web was ablaze when Warner Bros. released the first photo of Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle in "The Dark Knight Rises."


MTV News was immediately on the case, offering up our own analysis, as well as thoughts from a few experts on what the photo of Hathaway in costume, riding what looked to be Batman's motorcycle, meant for the character and her assumed transformation into Catwoman.


Now, in knowing how tight-lipped the "Dark Knight Rises" stars are sworn to be about the films, when we caught up with Hathaway as she promoted the upcoming movie "One Day," we didn't expect her to offer any commentary about the photo — but she surprised us.

"I was not going to admit it: I asked someone to send me a few reactions [to the photo]," she said. "And I happen to know that MTV's reaction was 'meh.' "

Now, we're not sure about the "meh" quote, but we will admit to using the phrases "cautiously optimistic," "unflattering" and "underwhelming" in our analysis.

Regardless, Hathaway said that no matter the first impressions, there is a lot more happening with that suit.

"What I am happy to say is, if you didn't like the photo, you only see about a 10th of what that suit can do," she promised. "And if you did like the photo, you have excellent taste."

It looks Simple and dumb.
I'm missing the classic hoos and nails.

it's just a simple black suit.
smh.

She will flop as Catwoman.

Anne Hathaway is a fabulous actress and she will do justice to the role.

She's ****ing Catwoman.
All she needs is a black suit.

Yay! I have excellent taste!

She can never fill Pfeiffer's shoes :/

Let's just point the obvious. No one is going to fill Julie Newmar's, Lee Meriwether's, or Eartha Kitt's shoes, so why try and fill someone else's shoes when you can make your own?

Anne is the Queen. She will not disappoint.

She better deliver. Because from those pics? Ch. Catwomen is fierce and sexy. She's neither of those. She always comes off as funny and nice.

But I don't want a Pfeiffer's Catwoman rendition. I want to see Christopher Nolan's own vision of Catwoman, which I think will be perfectly executed by Anne. Have some faith in her.

I'll remain optimistic, because i like Ann. I believe in you an, hopefully you and the suit don't disappoint.

People don't get it. This is goddamn Christopher Nolan.

Comics' Scarecrow:


Nolan's Scarecrow:


Comics' Ra's al Ghul:


Nolan's Ra's al Ghul:


WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE EXPECTING?! THIS ISN'T A BURTON BATMAN MOVIE!!

And she isn't aiming to.
She wants to be Nolans Catwoman.

Exactly.

Michelle Pfeiffer never played Selina Kyle, imo. It's a completely different character.

In the comics, Selina is neither crazy nor violent... she isn't even mean; she's just a thief.

Tha QUEEN can do NO WRONG. Yall will stay mad and irate and still give LedgenWay her coins when tha movie comes out next here. She's unbothered and unphased DEAL

I'm surprised at the lack of faith people have in Anne. I've always found Anne to be beautiful, sexy and very talented. She could do no wrong in my book.