Superman Returns Children's reactions to SR?

[LostSon88]

Considering there are some parents, older brothers/sisters, aunts/uncles, etc. on these boards I was wondering...what did the kiddies think of Superman Returns? Anyone?

 

[Willowhugger]

*niece*

In no particular order...

1. Lex Luthor is FUNNY

to

2. Lex Luthor is a JERK! (beating)

3. Superman should find someone else's woman, Lois is married!

4. Ewwwww the doggy ate the doggy!

5. WOO! *Superman plane rescue*

 

[SFII]

at one of the viewings i went to, there was a kid crying about 15 minutes before the movie ended, and the parent had to take him outside, unfortunately.
now i think i heard the little boy say something like "i'm bored, i want to go home". i hope it wasn't becuz of the movie, becuz i loved the movie!

 

[Arwes]

at one of the viewings i went to, there was a kid crying about 15 minutes before the movie ended, and the parent had to take him outside, unfortunately.
now i think i heard the little boy say something like "i'm bored, i want to go home". i hope it wasn't becuz of the movie, becuz i loved the movie!

The showing I went to, a young couple brought their 2-3 year old daughter. She cried and whined through the whole thing, yelling MAMA! every time the dad held her. They finally left with about 5-10 minutes left of the movie, and the row behind me clapped. Seriously though, the child was too young to give a crap about any movie.

The only other reaction I heard from a child in there (when he wasn't farting and stinking up half the theater), was DAMN! HE DEAD!! when Supes was falling after shoving New Krypton into space. Think he must've been around 6-7 years old.

 

[charl_huntress]

lol...well my nephew and niece are adolscents and I think they liked the movie. Though...they weren't what I would call extra excited, but I could be reading into that because I wasn't excited to have had to see that film for the third time.

They liked the action of course. My niece winced at the beating, and so did I. Ummm...that's about it really.

They were entertained, and I don't think they got bored all the time. They movie held their attention pretty well, but I don't think it wow'd them.

The didn't ask to see it again though...so...

 

[Katsuro]

On my second showing, on the way out some little kids asked their parents if they could see it again later.

I also remember on my first showing, a little kid kept asking "Is that Superman?" when Clark woke up on the farm.

 

[jstsuperman]

Other that a damn kid (if you want to call him a kid 13 or 14y/o)crying because there was no Spiderman 3 trailer with our movie and I do mean CRYING most of the kids liked it..The 1 in front of me turned around when he 1st seen Superman and said "Wow dad it's Superman"

I went again to the movie last night MUCH more kids in there..alot seemed to like it besides these two Jr high looking punks that kept yelling "He is a ***" I think he was trying to impress his g/f but once this 6'2 200pd looking dude stood up and turned around to see who kept doing it we heard nothing again...I should have pointed them out to him but I think he made his point

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

*niece*

In no particular order...

1. Lex Luthor is FUNNY

to

2. Lex Luthor is a JERK! (beating)

3. Superman should find someone else's woman, Lois is married!

4. Ewwwww the doggy ate the doggy!

5. WOO! *Superman plane rescue*

If that's true, that's cute.

 

[ultimatefan]

Yeah, this is an important element of the equation, kids are responsible for a lot of the repeat viewings and such. I think people underestimate the patience of kids, if they can sit through almost two and a half hours of Harry Potter and three hours of LOTR, I dunno why they can´t sit through two and a half hours of Superman.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

I think people underestimate the patience of kids,

I agree.
While watching SR, often, when I got bored, I tried to juxtapose it with Superman 1+2 (both of which didn't have anywhere near the exciting parts, visually) and I tried to balance my old-man perception with my little kid perception.

The answer I arrived at:

Good is good
Boring is boring

Raiders, Empire, Superman 1, Ghostbusters?.......NOT boring.
Superman Returns?........................................EMINENTLY boring.

 

[Yodaman]

This isn't SR related, but the best Child reaction to a movie EVER was a story my friend told me. He was sitting in the theatre for Revenge of the Sith. Once the words "A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Far Far Away..." came up, some kid in front of him yelled "Hey, I've already seen this one!"

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

LOL, cool!

 

[bhogg]

I've seen it twice, and both times I thought the kids aged (just guessing) 7-8 and older enjoyed it. There were some younger kids and the movie's more mature aspects were boring --- they obviously wanted more superman. That's to be expected, however.

I did hear lots of young voices saying "is that superman?" or "Is he dead?" or "oh, no (during the NK beating)."

 

[Morg]

My friend Lee's son, he loves it

 

[ultimatefan]

This isn't SR related, but the best Child reaction to a movie EVER was a story my friend told me. He was sitting in the theatre for Revenge of the Sith. Once the words "A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Far Far Away..." came up, some kid in front of him yelled "Hey, I've already seen this one!"

I wanted to punch a kid during a Batman Begins screening who said, in the end, when Bruce remembers again being with his father, "I already saw that!"

 

[Lightning54SC]

seriously kids today are to into that pokemon crap and nickolodeon ****... i t think the need to stamp these movies with a R rating cuz i too and seriously done with all the little kids ruinning a movie and teeny boppers

 

[Steelsheen]

my co-worker said that her kids loved the the action sequences, everything -- the flying, specially the bullets bouncing off of Supes and the bullet in the eye scene, so much so that she overheard them trying to grab their toy guns and recreate it and of course she panicked! had to give them a quick 101 course on why superheroes are different from humans

 

[Lightning54SC]

oh great here we go some kid is gonna blow his head off from watching a scen e for superman and the movie will get the blame but if im not mistaken the movie did come witha PG-13 stamo

 

[deathfromabove]

my 8 year old son liked it. he thought it was good. he says it was as good as batman but not as good as spidey 2. he thought it was a bit too long. we are going to the imax 3d show today. for reference he thought fantastic 4 sucked and xmen 3 was only slightly better.

 

[Steelsheen]

oh great here we go some kid is gonna blow his head off from watching a scen e for superman and the movie will get the blame but if im not mistaken the movie did come witha PG-13 stamo

oh you know it will

 

[Ita-KalEl]

my 8 year old son liked it. he thought it was good. he says it was as good as batman but not as good as spidey 2. he thought it was a bit too long. we are going to the imax 3d show today. for reference he thought fantastic 4 sucked and xmen 3 was only slightly better.

The kids of today are incredible. When I was 8 years old I liked quite everything, even Superman III...

 

[the a1ant]

I think comic book films like Superman Returns, Batman Begins, and even Spider-Man 2 (to some degree) were being made more for the older crowds. Serious love stories, etc...kids don't care about that. X3 was kind of all around...appealed to kids more-so, I think since there were younger X-Men involved. I hope WB/Marvel make some films geared towards children...can't leave the lil tykes out!

 

[SFII]

This isn't SR related, but the best Child reaction to a movie EVER was a story my friend told me. He was sitting in the theatre for Revenge of the Sith. Once the words "A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Far Far Away..." came up, some kid in front of him yelled "Hey, I've already seen this one!"

OH god that is GReAT!! LOL

 

[ultimatefan]

The kids of today are incredible. When I was 8 years old I liked quite everything, even Superman III...

Oh, when I was a kid... Ultraman was cool, Knight Rider was great, A-Team... I don´t dare watching any of that these days...

 

[Lightning54SC]

I think comic book films like Superman Returns, Batman Begins, and even Spider-Man 2 (to some degree) were being made more for the older crowds. Serious love stories, etc...kids don't care about that. X3 was kind of all around...appealed to kids more-so, I think since there were younger X-Men involved. I hope WB/Marvel make some films geared towards children...can't leave the lil tykes out!

nothing personally but these movies are geared towards people in the 15-30 range who grew up more reading these comics and stuff not kids of today.... i love the darker ways these directers have been portraying them in.... in the famous words of George Carlen... F*** the CHILDREN!!!!