Superman Returns...

...rocks.
Totally.

I saw this yesterday, on the Fourth. It was a husband treat for me... I gave Amy a morning without the kids and "got" to go to a movie while Jack was taking his nap, so...

Anyway, like I say- it rocked. Exceeded expectations (which had been set to "reasonable" by mixed reviews).

Singer totally made the right choice in jumping shio from the increasingly complicated and blurry X-Men franchise in favor of resurrecting one with more potential for poetry and big, beautiful moments... which Superman Returns has in spades.

This movie is gorgeous in places- Singer has an amazing eye for visuals and he pulls out all the stops here, recreating even the first Superman cover ever, , the iconic image of Atlas holding the Globe, amazing shots of Superman hovering over the earth... Just a lot of great visual moments.

Kevin Spacey, while no Gene Hackman, was great as Lex Luthor, and the choice to keep the score from the original movie was inspired... It took me right back to fourth grade, made me feel like a kid again.
The story was great- I realized half-way through that the movie was avoiding all the predictable, cheesy-poor choices that movies today often succumb to- no "action hero" catch phrases, no bad dialogue stringing together incoherent action sequences... There was actually some good emotional depth to this movie.

Highly recommended...

Comments

[melanie fuller]

I am glad to hear that the movie was good. I had heard it wasn't, but your review has me convinced. (All except the minor slam on Xmen... which will always be may favorite group of super heroes)

[Sean Michael Murphy]

nev er thought I'd say this, but...
I liked the new Adam Sandler movie - Click
actually had some content to it

[JHearne]

I'm planning on seeing Superman but I'm going to agree with Sean Michael Murhpy and say that I enjoyed "Click" as well.

[david]

sorry bob, gotta disagree on this one. i enjoyed it and didn't feel ripped off, but...

the wife and i did an action double-header. saw x-men first, then superman. i thought x-men was far and away the better flick.

i just felt like superman never really got rolling. i kept waiting for it to start flying, but felt let down at the end... maybe the sequel will be better.

[Keith Demko]

While I enjoyed watching Spacey take over the role of Luthor, my only beef with Singer's otherwise great film is that Luthor's plot seemed to make very little sense

[James Paul]

I loved everything except Superman's bastard son. Where's Weird Al?

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