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Superman Returns
By Bryan Singer
Hyped 9/6/2008 8:33:28 PM
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Last Rated: 2/8/2009 8:29:07 PM by nassauroyal and has been rated 9 time(s)
Viewed 588 time(s)
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Egan080's Review and Opinion:
One of the inevitable things in life - besides death and taxes - is that when a movie spins off a series of sequels, the "offspring" films' quality will slide downward if the original creative team leaves it to others to continue the franchise.
This is what, unfortunately happened to the Airport and Jaws series in the 1970s and 1980s, and it happened to the Warner Bros. quartet of Superman movies as well.
It's worth remembering that the Man of Steel's big screen adventures began with a super-big hit when Richard Donner's Superman: The Movie premiered almost 30 years ago. Starring the late Christopher Reeve as Clark Kent/Superman, Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor, Margot Kidder as Lois Lane, and Marlon Brando as Jor-El, this Mario Puzo-penned flick and its 1981 sequel set the standard for what good comic book adaptations should be like.
2006's Superman Returns' director and co-writer Bryan Singer wisely kept the first two Christopher Reeve movies in mind when he decided to help reboot the series, which had been crippled by the awful Superman III and IV (remember Nuclear Man?). Not only did Singer (X-Men, X-Men 2) use the same kind of visuals for the main title and adapt John Williams' Superman March to keep a sense of continuity, but the story refers to events in Superman I and II. Indeed, the late Marlon Brando does a CGI cameo as Jor-El's Fortress of Solitude recording.
Though Kate Bosworth does look a mite too young to be playing Lois Lane in a tale set five years or so after Superman II, she's both beautiful and intelligent, and she needs both assets to portray the dogged if rather trouble-prone Daily Planet reporter who always needs to have Superman around.
Brandon Roush is a worthy heir to Superman's caped outfit, pulling off the difficult trick of portraying a character with two distinct personalities - the nerdy and "clumsy" Clark Kent and the confident heroic Last Son of Krypton. While he doesn't quite mimic Chris Reeve's performance and makes the double-role his own, he does try to play Clark one way and Superman another way.
The other newcomer to the Superman saga is Kevin Spacey as Lex. Here he is rebooting the archvillain by doing his own spin on the ruthless real estate-obsessed meanie while paying an homage to Hackman's Lex; the Bald One's motivation to perpetuate another Crime of the Century stems from his run ins with Superman in the first two movies.
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Visual Aspects 83.33% |
Nicer than in the first two movies, but seems to fit with them as well. |
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Auditory Aspects 90.00% |
Very good sound design overall. Score isn't as deep and powerful as Williams' 1978 music for Superman: The Movie, but they used the main theme for con |
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Cinematography 80.00% |
Nice cinematography all around. The effects were also spectacular. |
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Plot/story 80.00% |
Not exactly a stand-alone picture; still, not terribly un-original. |
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Acting 80.00% |
Spacey's Luthor is actually a bit less scene-chewing than Hackman. Roush handles the double-role way better than Dean Cain did in the TV series he di |
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General 70.00% |
While I waited to get the DVD rather than see it in theaters, I liked it a lot. Certainly better than the previous two films! |
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Synopsis:
Sometime after the events of Superman II, the Man of Steel left Earth to check out rumors that remnants of his erstwhile home planet of Krypton had been found.
Now, five years later, he's back, and the world has changed. Lex Luthor has been freed on a legal technicality, Lois Lane is a Pulitzer Prize winner, a single (but engaged) mother of a five year old boy, and his adopted home world - Earth - is rife with crime, conflicts, and other crises. Now, Lex seeks payback against the Man of Steel for foiling his plot to destroy California, and he'll do anything to get it!
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