Comments on: Movie Notes: Superman Returns

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:44:33 +0000

Way too serious. Lame screenplay. Near lifeless performances (except Spacey who overacted).
Good to very good effects (but that’s almost a given). Pseudo religious overtones misplaced.
Some scenes difficult to discern because of ridiculous obsession with nighttime sequences!
The Adventures of Superman (TV series with George Reeves 1951–1958) can’t be topped!
Christopher Reeves Superman movies also tops (even 3 and 4)
Smallville TV series (fair)
Lois and Clark series (mostly lame)
Superboy series from the 80’s (laughable and borderline awful)

By: Jason Kaneshiro

Jason Kaneshiro — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:45:10 +0000

Yep I am certainly not looking forward to the sequel.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:32:01 +0000

This movie was awful. I can’t believe we waited nearly 20 years for that. There were way to many mistakes in Superman Returns. Bryan Singer needs to go somewhere else and stay away from the Superman franchise. He ruined it. The suit was terrible, Superman should never have had a kid and there was no action. Singer ruined it for fans by making this movie more of a love story than an action movie. WHERE WAS THE ACTION!!! This is Superman we are talking about. The movie was over two hours long and it had maybe a combined 23 minutes of action. That is absolutely ridiculous. I hope they get another director for the next installment.

By: Fahad

Fahad — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:13:35 +0000

I saw this movie quite some time ago and didn’t really find it interesting. I hated the plot, some of the cast(kate bosworth is soooooo cute, she made me watch the full movie), and the overall movie itself. I would give it a 1 star.….

By: webomatica

webomatica — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:29:27 +0000

Heh amusing point about Superman not knowing he’s a father. As for Smallville, I wonder why Tom Welling wasn’t cast as Supes — he would have done a better job IMHO.

By: Stefanie Hutson

Stefanie Hutson — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:26:02 +0000

As much as I love Superman, I wasn’t crazy about Superman returns. Maybe I’ve just been spoiled by the surprisingly good character dynamics in Smallville (and excellent acting from Michael Rosenbaum), but it felt cold and a little hollow. Plus, I was disgusted at the fact that Superman might have an out of wedlock child that was being raised by another man. Superman shouldn’t be that slimy.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:23:00 +0000

This was definitely a disappointing film. I think the bar for superhero flicks has been set extremely high by the Spiderman movies (3rd film excepted), Xmen movies (3rd film excepted) and Batman Begins. If your movie isn’t up to those 3 titles, then you’re pretty much the Fantastic Four movies or Superman

You’re spot on with the Kate Bosworth knock. She was lame and not hot. I don’t watch Smallville regularly, but I know the women on that show are hot. If you’re gonna give us Lois she better rock and have a little moxie to boot!

I think my big gripe in this film was that it amounted to Superman vs. Natural Disaster. Which sucks. You want to see Superman go mano e mano with some foe. I understand that Lex caused the weird kryptonite land mass to grow and all that jazz…but I never felt a real Lex vs. Superman vibe in this film. The rivalry/arch nemesis thing just kinda left me empty.

Bring back Nuclear Man! (just kidding…).

Oh the stuff with his kid…that was kinda interesting…