Superman Returns The Ultimate Superman Returns Review Thread

[greenlantern530]

ya know...after reading all these reviews, i don't think it's far-fetched to say that it might actually be better than Godfather (like someone stated a couple of months ago).

Let's not get too crazy now, I remember people saying that about Begins..

 

[DorkyFresh]

well if i wanna say that Begins is better than Godfather, then what's wrong with that? i'm not saying it is but that would be my opinion...just like SOME people think Batman 89 was better than Begins...

 

[Man_of_Steel]

Batman Begins WAS better than the Godfather....and it's my opinion that it was no matter how many people consider the Godfather a classic. It's still a great movie, of course, but I'll take Batman over the Godfather any day.

 

[J.Howlett]

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/archives/2006/06/_blue_babyblue.php

Jeffrey Wells has more to say...

 

[johnsonuk]

review from iesb http://www.iesb.net/warnerbros2006/061006.php

 

[J.Howlett]

Can it get any better?

 

[Mr. Credible]

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/archives/2006/06/_blue_babyblue.php

Jeffrey Wells has more to say...

i'd never heard of this guy until the other day, but i like 'em.

 

[J.Howlett]

Well, don't like him too much. As Fatboy said, the guy tends to be all over the place when it comes to films and the gossip in the industry.

Sometimes, I can stand to read him. Other times, he's impossible. He's in the "either you like him or you don't" category. There's no middle.

But, I do like what he said about the film...very much so.

 

[Mr. Credible]

that's pretty much what i meant: i like what he has to say about superman returns. if i understand correctly, this guy is pretty hard to impress, so if he likes this, than that is o-tay.

 

[J.Howlett]

sleeburg,

How big is the twist, without revealing? Scale of 1 to 10?

And how good is Brandon?

 

[Mr. Credible]

I assure you, I am completely unbiased. I went in with extremely high expectations and I expected to have them marginally met at best. And I was completely excited by all the blogs. I just didn't figure anything could be THAT good.

I was wrong.

It not only met my expectations, it shattered them into a million pieces and went above and beyond anything I could have dreamed. I can't even tell you about the things you'll see in this movie.

EVERY performance is fantastic. EVERYONE is perfectly in character. The story is brilliant. What else can I say? I don't know. I don't have the words.


Easily one of the best movies ever made in the history of... ever.

maybe you can't post spoilers in here.... but PM's, on the other hand?

 

[french joker]

oh god... and i'll have to wait until july 12th... (french release)

 

[Mr. Credible]

What twist?




ELEVEN.

the early reviewers have been asked not to reveal the 'big twist' that was not revealed in the novelization.

somehow i don't think you saw the movie. no offense.

 

[Eteric]

Hey guys. I updated the first page with AICN's review, and Latinoreview's review.

Anymore pop up while I was sleeping?

 

[johnsonuk]

Hey guys. I updated the first page with AICN's review, and Latinoreview's review.

Anymore pop up while I was sleeping?

iesb

 

[Mr. Credible]

yeah, the first guy who reviewed it, forget his name, updated his with some pretty good stuff.

 

[Superman \S/]

From the Boston Herald:

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

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.

http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/stephenSchaefer/

 

[LuvSupes]

How is the kid's acting? Is Jason involved in any emotional scenes?

 

[Eteric]

Really? Then how the hell did I get this?

Clearly I must have stolen all of it from someone.

As I did not read the novelization, I do not know what was left out of it and, thus, I cannot tell you.

But hey, at least you don't jump to conclusions. That's cool.

Is that Superman Returns ON DVD?!?

 

[J.Howlett]

I swear, I need to get in the industry JUST FOR the free stuff....

sleeburg,

Any way you can upload a few of those wallpapers and hi-res photos?

 

[Eteric]

No, that's the Digital Media Kit, which is incredibly cool. It's got tons of hi-res photos (some never seen before) and wallpapers and a screensaver and it works like a digital version of the Daily Planet with newspaper pages and the photos embedded in the articles. It's also got trailers and all kinds of goodies, all of which you can download right off the CD onto your computer.

When I first saw it I thought it was a DVD and I was about to crap my pants. But that wouldn't make much sense for them to do, would it?

Oh cool, I want one!

(Collects Superman stuff)

 

[MoviesKickAss]

Hey Slee is the International Teaser on that DVD

 

[Nivek]

Really? Then how the hell did I get this?

Clearly I must have stolen all of it from someone.

As I did not read the novelization, I do not know what was left out of it and, thus, I cannot tell you.

But hey, at least you don't jump to conclusions. That's cool.

Good way to remove doubt, sir! Good show!

 

[ayenlou]

Awww, man. You're so lucky Sleeburg. So any cool things happen at the event besides the cool bags?

I'm in awe right now. I can't believe Superman Returns has not gotten a bad review. Singer really out did himself in this one. Can't wait for it. Sucks though because I'll be on a cruise from June 24 - July 1. So I can't watch it opening weekend. =[

 

[The Caped Knight]

OMG, You lucky little ...... Man