Aaron EckhartWe had the hottest date in town last night.

Eat your hearts out, because we shimmied out to schmooze Batman, aka Christian Bale and his dashing co-star Aaron Eckhaart.

And neither disappointed.

Heck, the muscled superhero even sent the Batmobile to fetch us and escort us to the European premiere at London's Leicester Square.

Well, kind of.

So it didn't really fetch us personally, but it did glide past us on the red rug and we're sure it gave us an extra hoot.

Hot cars aside, we had a good ol' natter with the film's hunks.

We asked Aaron if he'd had a chance to sneak into the Batsuit at all, but he revealed not.

Christian was happy to chat about the costume, which he told us was a lot easier to work in than the first one.

Additionally, we had a good old chortle with screen legend Sir Michael Caine, who told us he'd seen himself on the Imax in New York and joked: "They should use more make-up."

A svelte Kelly Osbourne strutted her stuff too, and singer Ne-Yo told us some of his next projects include working with the likes of Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Jennifer Hudson.

Phewee.

We still feel faint from the sheer exhilaration of it all - we think we need Batman to sweep us off our feet and whisk us away to the Batcave.

In the meantime, check out everything about The Dark Knight on Sky Movies.