Kate Bosworth
Parker Posey
Frank Langella
June 28th, 2006
DIRECTOR:
Bryn Singer
STUDIO:
Warner Bros. Pictures
DISTRIBUTOR:
Warner Bros. Pictures
RATING:
PG-13
RUNTIME:
2h 34m
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PREQUELS:
Superman II Superman III
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Synopsis
Bryan Singer's Superman Returns follows the events surrounding the hero's return to Earth after a five-year absence. When Superman (Brandon Routh) arrives back on Earth, he discovers that Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey) has developed a plan to use kryptonite crystals to establish a new landmass that he intends to sell off to the highest bidder. With Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth) now married with a child, Superman must come to with everything he left behind in order to stop Luthor's villainous scheme.
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Steve
Brandon did a great job as superman it was lex luthor that killed the movie along with a weak story.
2024-09-13 21:46:06 -
Steve
You're accessment of the plane scene in Superman Returns is spot on. For me it is the ultimate action sequence of all the big screen Superman movies. The effects, the pacing, and the small elements, from Superman's first sighting on the radar screen, Lois catching a glimpse of him flying the aircraft window, and the entire sequence of saving the plane were amazing. The movie was made as a homage to Christopher Reeve's Superman, and Brandon Routh delivered.
It wasn't really the movie I wanted at the time it came out, but it did deliver.
Henry Cavill could have made a great Superman, but all of his scripts had him portray the character under the darkest of circumstances. As portrayed, I could never figure out why the world would want him around.
2025-01-21 21:22:57 -
Batmanx1
Superman returns beats brightburn.
2024-10-08 13:05:01 -
LogalogHoward
LogalogHoward
#ZO0676710Threads613Reviews629Ratings7PostsFollowing0Stories0Topics0Authors0sBryan Singer, how can you make a Superman movie that is so boring? Felt nothing for the characters in this one and really didn't like Spacey as Luthor. Routh could have been such a great Superman, but never got the chance to show it here. One really good sequence in a sea of boring.
2024-08-25 01:11:52 -
Paul
Brandon Routh was a good superman , let down by weak story and really bad villain Kevin Spacey blew it for me.
brandon was all most as good as Christopher Reeve. It felt like a sequel to his movies, as long as you forget about superman 3 and 4
2025-01-15 14:55:42 -
Braxton
The movie was fine. Jesus Christ, man. There are worst comic book superhero movies than Returns. There are some truly breathtaking shots and sequences in this movie.
Obviously, the whole plane sequence was great. Zero gravity part was interesting.
At the end of the movie after in the hospital the nurse checks on Superman sees he has flown out of the window we pan across and see the Metropolis city line slowly change into a bookshelf and we are in Lois’s office at home. Fucking beautiful.
Like the Superman pulling the both halves of the broken ship out of the sea with the camera pulling out to reveal this awesome sight.
Brandon Routh was good in it. Although I thought his Clark Kent was better than his Superman, some of his facial expressions are funny. Later he actually did a better job in the CW Crisis crossover.
Spacey was good too except he was a little too much like Hackman where there are parts where he’s played for laughs. And I didn’t like Kate Bosworth as Lois. She just didn’t have that spunk and effervescence like she should.
Felt like they needed another go with the script on this one. The concept of Superman leaving Earth and coming back to a darker, more cynical world than he left it was a great idea but that isn’t explored enough and whether or not Superman II is canon is really ambiguous. The way they comb through and pick bits and pieces of what they wanted bothered me and seemed a bit indecisive creatively.
True Superman doesn’t fight anyone but that’s fine Superman isn’t Batman he doesn’t go out beating up criminals he is a protector and public servant. The non violent means of Superman are evident in the big robbery sequence where the John Corbin guy unloads that Gatling gun unsuccessfully finally resorting to shooting Supes where the bullet bounces off his eye. The criminal has no choice but to surrender after that. And I love that idea, the idea of the unstoppable force meeting the unmovable object.
That is not my diatribe. I do not
2024-09-13 17:41:51
