New Batman awesome as hell?

I saw the original Batman on TV last night, and that was just awesome, in that Michael Keaton is perhaps the least intimidating man on the face of the Earth.  He's like, what, 5'4 and 100 pounds.   Kim Basinger could have whopped his ass.  I can just picture the villains looking at him and being like "Yeah, um...we're just gonna keep robbing if it's cool with you."  And then there's that scene where he attacks the Jokers balloons and a giant pair of scissors pops out of the front of the Batwing.  Because Batman totally knew he was going to encounter giant deadly balloons, a hedge badly in need of trimming, or an italian woman.  Hahahah, because they're hairy.