Watch the bulge, Mary
...was what my gay friend advised me when I told him I was going to see Superman Returns last night.Like King Kong, this movie suffered from too much money. Less money means smarter choices. Superman Returns cost about $300 million and the only thing that showed it was a spectacular plane crash sequence; I mean, they already got a break on the music.
Isn't Superman supposed to have hearts like cows have stomachs? If so, this movie had a lot of heart, but director Bryan Singer seemed less adept at paring down the story to the things that are actually important than he did with X Men 2.
Singer also seeems to have something against James Marsden, who has now played cuckolds in two of his movies.
In a film that is two hours long, things shouldn't seem forced, yet Kevin Spacey's violence as Lex Luthor and a revelation about Lois Lane's son are both a little jarring. The latter issue is even more disappointing because it is the one plot point Singer introduces but seems to abandon.
Brandon Routh is a dead ringer for Christopher Reeve and does a good job. But he only gets to impersonate Reeve; there is nothing new about the character (other than he can take a bullet in the eye, which was cool).
The Elizabeth Banks of this movie is Sam Huntington, who plays Jimmy Olsen. The TV show Jimmy Olsen (Jack Larson) also makes a poignant appearance as an elderly bartender.
I see that a sequel to Superman Returns is slated for 2009. If Singer directs it, I hope he will make it more effective and significant, the way he improved on the first X Men in his followup.
Two previews, one for Spiderman 3 and one for Hollywoodland, the George Reeves story, looked promising.
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by Marty Barrett at Wednesday, June 28, 2006
1 Comments:
hey, great review! you should post this on FilmCrowd.com :) your blog url is displayed at the bottom of each review you submit so it might even send a little traffic your way. we have a page up for Superman Returns here
http://www.filmcrowd.com/content/world/all/5286/Superman_Returns/8/0
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