"Hey, I can see my house from here!"Well, my friend Bill and I went to see Superman Returns in IMAX 3D on Monday night. While the whole PC watering down of the storyline bothered the hell out of me, I am still a movie/comic book geek at heart. And, since Bryan Singer - who helmed the first two X-Men movies - was directing, I figured it was going to be well done.
Although Superman Returns is not a perfect film by any means, it is very well done overall. The film begins after Superman's five year absence. After learning that his home planet Krypton may have been found, Superman left everything (and everyone) behind to see for himself. In the interim, Lois Lane has moved on with her L.A.S. (Life After Superman), and Lex Luthor has been released from prison - the result of the prosecution's caped no-show witness. Superman/Clark Kent try and work their way back into the world's good graces, while fending of yet another evil Luthor plan.
Brandon Routh was better than Christopher Reeve as The Man of Steel, but Smallville's Tom Welling probably would have been better. Kate Bosworth was a very good Lois Lane, and Kevin Spacey . . . well, he was typical Kevin Spacey. In my opinion, he did a lot with a fairly flimsy role. If there is a sequel, Luthor had better get a different script writer.
The special effects were phenomenal, and I especially liked Singer's use of the sonic boom whenever Superman flew to a catastrophe. The 3D scenes - for those of you who see the IMAX 3D show - were excellent. I'd like to see it again on a regular screen, though.
In conclusion, Superman Returns is a very good summer movie. It was probably on par with X3, but I have a feeling that Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest will be the blockbuster of 2006. But that's just me.
Although the movie was good, I was less than enthused. . .especially with the retread of the Capturing land plotline. . .Sad!
ReplyDeleteGrowing a continent? I preferred the Andreas Fault attack making California fall into the sea and making Nevada the new coast line plot.
Oh and Reeves was better as Superman and MUCH better as Kent.
Sleeper of the Summer . ..Scanner Darkly.
And if you haven't checked out the Spider-Man 3 trailers (yes, trailerS) on Youtube, get on it!
Hobgoblin! Nice!
Pirates will definitely knock Superman off box office perch, but I too found it to be a very good summer movie ... My only real beef was that Lex Luthor's plot made very little sense
ReplyDelete