Superman Returns Review
Superman bleeds and is hospitalized. He was injured. So was the movie. If the Man of Steel can’t help himself, then how can he save the movie?
I can’t believe people thought this was a good movie. I couldn’t sit through the length of the movie. I has expectations were sky high, but they were forced to crash land by Brian Singer.
I have not seen the previous superman movies. I have never read a DC comic book in my life. Yeah.. I din’t understand some things in the movie, but atleast I have seen sequels which I liked and enjoyed without watching the previous movie.
It’s like downloading VISTA on a Dial-up
The movie is L—–O—–N—–G. Wish you had the backspace key while you see the movie. Superman Returns is a 2.5 hours of uninteresting, painfully long and dragging movie. It’s dull and flat. There is no buildup, no suspense, a mediocre plot, tangled love story, poor acting which all add up to your frustration (that too when Argentina and Germany fight it out in the Quaters).
In the absence of any kind of actual content to push the movie along, Singer instead relies on an endless string of movie clichés. A man sitting next to us, left a good 20 minutes before the credits roll. The end was long, drawn out, and choppy.
Many people criticized King Kong to be long and boring for 3 hours, but atleast I liked it and definitely watchable.
Brandon Routh is a Cardboard cutout of Christopher Reeve
Yeah.. it holds true in whatever way you think. He looks like him. His mannerisms, his body language and even his hair style (when he is Superman) is the same. But Routh just looks like him, like a cardboard, he can’t really be like the person he is resembling. He hardly gets to talk much (less than 25 lines in the whole movie). He sucked bad in the romance scenes with Lois.
I’m not sure if it was right to cast Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane. She does the acting part better than Brandon Routh and Lex’s partners. She doesn’t look that good also. Keira would have been perfect. Even if the movie sucked, she would have fluttered a few heart beats for guys like me.
Kevin Spacey can act (of course), but this movie hardly gives any justification to his acting. All I see him is fooling around with his three associates and doing some lame humour (about people eating dogs or jokes about one dog eating another dog). And I can’t understand how people who reviewed the movie earlier said that this was Spacey’s second best performance after American Beauty. I wonder how many Spacey movies they have seen? The best scene of him was when he tossed his wig to the little girl and said, “you can have this . . . the rest is mine,”!
Why the World Doesn’t Needs Superman Returns?
Gone for years, the world, including Lois Lane have moved on. She is a Career women and her works has not gone unnoticed. Lois has won a Pulitzer Prize for her article “Why the World Doesn’t Need Superman“. But what’s wrong with this movie? Why did not like it?
Super Hero movies needs a good amount of action scenes where our hero does cool gravity defying stunts. But this movie dint have that many action scenes. The mid air Flight emergency scene was good, but otherwise you don’t to see Superman in action much.
Super Hero movies target young audience and kids. But is there any part to their likings? Krrish was not liked by many, but the kids loved it. Fantastic four was routed as the worst Superhero movie (even I didn’t like it) but the kids simply loved it. Kids don’t like sentiment-drama-romance much, but even then the movie was not good at that.
The plot is stupid and flawed. The movie was not a sequel of the original movies, but it’s a bad remake of the 1978 Richard Donner’s movie. The plot is similar to that classic. The movie was supposed to pay tribute to the old Superman Movies, but fails miserably and Brian Singer made a fool of himself. Donner and Reeve could feel let down if they watch this flick.
Superman should get your Adrenaline raising and keep you in the edge of your seat, but here he makes you boo him and makes you anticipate when the movie will get over. I yawned, and could not wait to get home.
Final Word
Before the movie: Man… I’m gonna catch up with Superman Returns! Ya…. Wooo hooo….!!
After the movie: Man…shit. F@%$; I wasted my time and money.
There aren’t much action scenes, so the movie was bad. The romance between Superman and Lois Lane were childish, so the movie was bad. The acting were amateurish (save Kevin Spacey), so the movie was bad. It’s is long and dragging so the movie was bad. The screenplay was poor, so the movie was bad. So whatever way I look at, I did not like the movie.
Coming to my favourite part in writing reviews… rating the movie! I’ll give it 2.5/10. I’m little generous here. The action scenes were good in some parts and I like Superman and his super cool powers. Don’t get fooled by IMDb’s 7.9 or the users comments over there as most of them are from USA and they love their Super Heroes just as we like Krrish, whether or not the movie was good or not. How much have you voted an Indian movie high at IMDb just because it’s our movie?
Don’t waste your time on this money. There are better movie than this and we have the FIFA World Cup. It’s not worth it. Rent a DVD or wait for some channels to air it or catch it with some other means. Even if you see for free, you’ll want to get back your time.
Steer clear from this movie unless you have seen the previous movies and a die hard fan of Superman. Even in that case, you might not like this movie.
2/10
Superman Returns -You’ll wish he stayed at Krypton
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34 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/conte.....eturns/8/0
wht can I say, grudgy cool down ,enjoy brits defeat.
@luis,
Thanks for the compliment.
But I’m not sure as to how this works. I don’t want my review to be in other site. I don’t care if It’s like Digg, where I just get to post some excerpt and I get to link my page.
@multi,
Too bad Enagland lost, but they don’t deserve to win. Penalty kicks specialists Gerrard and Lampard missed the shot. Rooney send away…Owen out with Injury…Beckham substituted…But if Rooney and beck played, then it would have been a altogehter a different story.
Anyways, atleast lets see if France are able to win against Brazil.
Man , France defeated Brazil , what a result .
I also watched the movie yesterday , and the story was too slow for my liking but the action sequences and special were good and surprisingly most of the time people were clapping when superman did something good .
Yeah.. France Rulezzz… let’s see if they go on to win the WC.
We gave the Standing Ovation to the movie after it got over.
Lolz, I saw the first movie today and it was sooo long and boring… and realized that Shaktimaan had copied it frame by frame!
Oh and it was Routh’s 2nd movie I guess
Did you see what I posted above? He was a kinda of OK, but he hardly got any dialog. Not even 25 lines!
Anyways whats your rating?
I havent seen Superman Returns yet. I was talking about the 1978 movie
I would rate that - 6.5/10 for the age it is… if it were new with all the VGI etc, I would give it 4/10
Its Slooooowwww
It’s CGI, not VGI.
Anyway dint read you post properly.
Hmmm…. I’m expecting the movie to be at the Infosys Multiplex this weekend. Seems that it will be a big turn down for me too.
Hmm.. I wouldn’t recommend this flick to anyone. All I want to say is save your money and catch Pirates of Caribbean 2.
P.S: Don’t get fooled by IMDb’s rating of Superman Returns.
after the movie got over i shouted yahoo at my full voice!!!
Yeah, C is near to V on the keyboard, slippery fingers
I thought you were the Typo killer?
Anyways you have any idea when POC might be released here? I think they r gonna go easy and release at their will after July 2nd or 3rd week only.
^^ 21st july
That sucks.
Anyways I check the movie for sure. 
Yeah 21, I just got from a friend
… 2 weeks late bah…
I hope superman remains beyond
FDFS whee!
What is FDFS?
First Day First Show
I want my 50 Rs. back!
even after all the bad reviews and advices from all my friends (including ashwin), i dare to watch the movie. But fortune doesn’t favour braves all the time. One of the f%@king b%%||s&it movie with so much a hype. I am waiting for a pirate, Captian Jack Sparrow.
Well, in that case I want my 90 bucks back.
How much will you rate? Atleast 2 that I gave?
Lol sathyam tickets
^^
Yeah, why the lol?
Thank God I watched krish and not superman returns.
I have seen all the previous movies of Superman in my childhood days and I liked them all. I am a fan too.
I am gonna Watch Superman Return soon.
^^
Let me know if you liked this movie also.
I read a few Superman return review, all say the movie sucks
Hmm.. many didn’t like the movie. Perhaps you also might not like it.
P.S: Don’t get fooled by IMDb’s rating of Superman Returns.
Ashwin, I saw the movie and… IT ROCKS.. I love it..:-)
Basically you have to see atleast the first part of Superman to understand the movie.
I just loved it.. I don’t undertsand why people hate it. The beginning was a bit confusing for me as I thought that this was a remake of Superman 1 , then all became very exciting.
Well, there was not much of a story in it, but I still like it…love it
I wonder if there would be another part, in Which Superman’s Son takes his place
Well, i could do that roll…lol
There is indeed another part. Singer’s again gonna direct.
Understanding is different man. There are some stupid stuffs in the movie..like what does the thief do atop the bank building?
And even though they claim this as a sequel, you can very see that it is actually the remake of the old movie. Even in that you get to see the same plot…ie Lex attempting to curve out a land from America.
You can very well like the movie, after all different ppl have different tastes. But I din’t like this movie and I won’t recommend this to anyone.
Mmm… Good post
Will watch your blog
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