Superman Returns The Ultimate Superman Returns Review Thread

[Eteric]

And when he says LOVE it, he means mate with it and have little Superman Returns babies.

 

[J.Howlett]

bosef,

If only Singer was still with the mutants. Either way, I'm glad he's seemed to bring back the triumphant return of Superman.

 

[Eteric]

Indeed, it's time the real Super hero came back.

 

[MoviesKickAss]

I can Picture the Spots now after release

"If you loved Batman Begins you will love"

then various shots & then the Logo & then

Returns

 

[GreenLanternHam]

http://news.bostonherald.com/blogs/stephenSchaefer/?p=63

June 9, 2006 on 10:41 am
“SUPERMAN”: A MAGISTERIAL RETURN
Posted by: Stephen Schaefer

Bryan Singer’s highly-anticipated “Superman Returns” was finally unveiled for the press Thursday night in L.A. (the print was finished at Technicolor at 2:30 that afternoon) and Warner Bros. must have given a sigh of relief when they heard the genuine applause at the finish. What Singer’s done is a dandy trick: He’s honored the tradition of Superman as a quintessentially 20th-century American myth and simultaneously given the Man of Steel a home (cinematically) in the 21st century.

This Superman returns from a five-year absence to find the love of his life, Kate Bosworth’s Lois Lane, settled into domesticity with a son Jason and a lover, Daily Planet editor Perry White’s nephew Jack (James Marsden), who also works at the paper. An unmarried heroine with a kid, a woman with two very different men in her life – and, oh yes, a Pulitzer Prize – what could be more contemporary?

Even better, Singer has transformed Superman, the alien from another planet with his extraordinary powers, into a majestic, awe-inspiring figure, not a kiddie comic book guy in tights. Like Apollo come to earth, like Atlas holding the world in the great Rockefeller Center sculpture, Bryan Routh’s Superman has a gravity that enobles this entire two-and-a-half hour picture. There is one dazzling sequence early on where Superman rescues a doomed airplane whose passenger list includes Lois Lane, his estranged true love. Singer of course couldn’t know that the sequence would echo the final moments of the horrifying 9/11 “United 93” but that it does – and that it has Superman for a happy ending – gives it perhaps a greater gravitas. Here is a fantasy that like Disney’s plaintive Oscar-winning wartime song, “When You Wish Upon a Star,” speaks directly to a need for healing from the brutal realities we face daily.

Singer has cast two of the surviving cast members from the Fifties “Superman” TV series. Noel Neill, Lois Lane, plays a dying widow under Lex Luthor’s thrall and Jack Larson, Jimmy Olson, appears as a bartender serving Jimmy (Sam Huntington) and Clark Kent drink. He even wittily manages to get in the famous phrase, “It’s a bird! It’s a plane!” and “Faster than a speeding bullet.”

More importantly, Singer straddles Superman’s time zones and eras. The venerable Daily Planet, with its golden globe atop the Metropolis City landmark building, is a Thirties building with 21st century hardware, flat-screen monitors, computers and faxes. Parker Posey’s wry comic relief as Kitty, Lex Luthor’s moll, is, right down to her name, an evocation of Hollywood’s spunky, wise-cracking Forties heroine Paulette Goddard (with a bit of Jennifer Jones). There is luminous Eva Marie Saint as Ma Kent once again in a movie, if only through screen magic, with her “On the Waterfront” leading man Marlon Brandon whose work as Jor-El, the father of Superman, is recycled to positive effect.

How the public responds to “Superman Returns” when it opens at 10 PM on June 27th is anyone’s guess but Singer & Co. can be content knowing they’ve managed not only to resurrect an American icon but done it with smarts, grace and even poetry. It’s going to be hard for any superhero movie to beat the magisterial bearing Singer so emphatically summons as in one memorable shot Superman is seen suspended in space, his dusty-colored cape twirling, an ancient god come from the heavens. Fittingly, the film is dedicated “respectfully” to Christopher Reeve and Dana Reeve.

 

[bosef982]

bosef,

If only Singer was still with the mutants. Either way, I'm glad he's seemed to bring back the triumphant return of Superman.

I wish he could've done both, but for some reason, this all just seems so...right.

 

[J.Howlett]

bosef,

Yeah, it does feel right. At least at WB, we hope he'll be treated better than he was at Fox.

I wish he could've done both.

Even still, it looks like he might be 3 for 3 in this genre. Not many can say that.

 

[bosef982]

bosef,

Yeah, it does feel right. At least at WB, we hope he'll be treated better than he was at Fox.

I wish he could've done both.

Even still, it looks like he might be 3 for 3 in this genre. Not many can say that.

Not only that, but 3 for 3 and with each 3 redefined the genre, and if these reviews are any case, broke it.

 

[J.Howlett]

bosef,

If this film is as good as being said at the moment, he's redefined this genre twice in 6 years.

Between him and Nolan right now, DC and WB should be having year long parties...

If everything goes well, you're going to see two more Batman pictures from Nolan and two more Superman pictures from Singer.

That's just scary!

 

[skruloos]

bosef,

If this film is as good as being said at the moment, he's redefined this genre twice in 6 years.

Between him and Nolan right now, DC and WB should be having year long parties...

If everything goes well, you're going to see two more Batman pictures from Nolan and two more Superman pictures from Singer.

That's just scary!

With these guys behind the helm of these pictures, it's a good time to be a fan of this genre of movies. Raimi on Spider-man. Nolan on Batman. Singer on Superman. Get me Peter Jackson on Hulk, Green Lantern or Captain America, Soderbergh on Daredevil, and Proyas on X-Men and I'd be happier than a pig in, well, you know what.

 

[Mr. Credible]

Here's one from Jeffrey Bridges at Supermanhomepage.com (Easily an ecstatic reviewer)

By Jeffrey Bridges

On the night of Thursday, June 8th I attended a special press screening (and IMAX 3D preview) of "Superman Returns".

Producer Chris Lee told us he came directly from Technicolor and we were technically the first audience to see the film.

A far more in-depth review will be coming in the future, but for now here's what I can tell you.

This movie is far greater than I could have ever anticipated, and I went in with extremely high expectations.

The effects, of course, do not disappoint. Several of the sequences are vying for the "most amazing thing I've seen on screen... EVER" and I've yet to decide which one tops the others.

But I didn't see many people questioning the effects, so on to larger issues. I am brimming with things I want to tell you. To reassure you about. To make you realize that this is really the Superman movie we've all been waiting before. But without details that will be hard to do. But perhaps my enthusiasm for what I've seen is coming through in this. At least, I hope it is.

James Marsden? Made me care for a character I had no real reason to. Parker Posey? Steals all her scenes. Eva Marie Saint? Touching and amazing. Frank Langella? A truly fantastic Perry. Sam Huntington? Best Jimmy EVER. Kevin Spacey? Easily the most sinister Lex to ever be seen on screen. A delight to watch. Kate Bosworth? Remarkably deep, tough and opinionated, just as Lois should be.

Brandon Routh?

There is no longer any doubt.

Brandon Routh IS Superman.

Routh and Bosworth have fantastic chemistry. Honestly, not a single performance was anything less than fantastic.

And the story? Well, that's what everyone wants to know, and the thing I can tell you the least about.

I still feel it inside me, honestly. It touched me. It's brilliant.

I hope this somehow does it justice, but I fear that I does not.

I have been moved.

I wish I could tell you more. I really do. I want to grab each and every one of you and make you understand how vital it is that you see this film. But perhaps my enthusiasm for what I've seen comes through in this.

At least, I hope it does.

Jeffrey Bridges

awesome... granted it's kind of a biased source, but i have no doubts this is how i'm going to feel about this movie.

 

[Agnarr]

I rarely go on what critics say, but this foreshadows great success for SR.

 

[MoviesKickAss]

It seems like Paramount & Warner Brothers are the only Studios that can make decent Superhero Movies . New Line did great with the first Blade but the Blade Sequels = meh

 

[Mr. Credible]

this is off topic a bit, and i'm not meaning to bash on pirates, but i think one thing people are overlooking in the whole comaprison between POTC and SR is that this movie is going to be like... ugh... i can't think of how to explain it, but, people are going to remember this film for the next 20 years, like reeve's films... people aren't going to remember pirates of the carribean as more than a 'pretty fun little film'

 

[Mr. Credible]

ps: i just got back from the bar, hopefully that made sense.

 

[bsquad]

thank god-- because I read the novel and I actually wasn't that awestruck by it

 

[bsquad]

i've gotta say I like what Brandon Routh said during the premier junket:

Q: There are notes in the film where I feel I see you doing little homages to Christopher Reeve. I don't see you repeating him, but I feel like I see you doing a few things. Was it conscious that you were doing that?

BR: Well, he was my Superman. Like I said, when I read the script for the first time, I was envisioning him. That's how I envisioned superman

 

[XCharlieX]

Sounds like Singer does it again. I will be seeing this film.

 

[Cinemaman]

Singer proved that he can be on the level of Singer and Jackson and the world will understand this, when SR is released.

Everywhere only positive reviews, SR is going to be the best summer blockbuster 2006.

 

[comicman]

Damntation. I can't wait another month now

I'm really pleased to hear that the film is getting such a positive response. Obviously, I'll need to draw my own conclusions on opening day, but I can go to the cinema now without feeling worried about what I may see on screen.

Some of you may disagree with this statement, but here goes: I honsetly believe now, that the abomination that was Batman & Robin actually served a purpose in the long run. It made WB realise that they can't just stick someone in a super hero costume and hope they make money with a half arsed attempt at a film. Batman Begins has already shown that they are trying to take these wonderful characters seriously by placing them in the hands of excellent directors who know their craft, and how to do justice to the essence of a character. It makes my heart feel glad that we may very well be getting a Superman film of similar stature.

 

[XCharlieX]

I too feel WB has really learned a lesson. When the bank runs dry changes are made, and only then. But Catwoman... fluke? lol

 

[MoviesKickAss]

I wonder what it's going to take for FOX to learn

 

[Ita-KalEl]

I wonder what it's going to take for FOX to learn

A HUGE flop.
FF and X3 did very good b.o. results...so they are sure to make great movies.

 

[comicman]

I too feel WB has really learned a lesson. When the bank runs dry changes are made, and only then. But Catwoman... fluke? lol

Fair point. I think Catwoman just drove home to them that if they screw with a character too much, its going to bite them on the arse

 

[Secret_Riddle]

im glad everyones loving it so much