Superman Returns

Pros: Its Superman. Entertaining story with wonderful special effects. Kevin Spacey.
Cons: None for me.

Superman has been a popular character for many years, first in comic books and then later in television shows, cartoons, and movies. I remember seeing cartoons when I was a child and also the first two Superman movies. The third and fourth ...

Pros: The return of the Superman franchise, thanks to Bryan Singer
Cons: Wait? There are cons?

There are many times in a person’s life in which magical moments take place. Getting married would be high on the list. Having your first child would rank high as well. Then there are the smaller things that also have an impact on a person’s ...

Pros: Some good bits...
Cons: ... just didn't come together

Superman Returns is a film about Superman… uh… returning. Set after Superman II, our hero has gone off in search of his home planet, Krypton, which astronomers claim to have found. He finds no life there, but when he returns to earth he finds ...

Pros: Excellent script, acting, directing, music and cinematography
Cons: None

Recent articles and television reviews that I've seen have emphasized that while Superman was the original "superhero", he has been absent from the big screen for too many years. Younger viewers have supplanted Superman with Spiderman, The X-Men, Batman ...

Pros: thrilling return of an iconic character, Spacey and Routh
Cons: How does Metropolis get cleaned up so fast?

Last night, while trying to soak up as much pre-Superman Returns hype as I possibly could, I tuned into The Late Show to find David Letterman chatting comfortably with Kevin Spacey, noting that he had seen the movie in which his guest plays ...

Pros: Good performances, great special effects
Cons: Kate Bosworth's age, slow start makes for a movie that's too long

For five years, the world has been without Superman (Brandon Routh). Now, he's come back to Earth and is ready to pick up where he left off. Fortunately, his alter ego, Clark Kent, is able to get his old job back at The Daily Planet. While ...

Pros: Cool reboot/sequel to the Super-franchise; links to first two films
Cons: A few slow bits

As a direct consequence of the decline in quality of both Superman III (1983) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, the heads of the Warner Bros. studio decided to cut their losses and, for the time being, ground the Man of Steel’s live ...

Pros: Great effects, plot, fine acting.
Cons: None really come to mind.

It’s a rare thing indeed when a forty-two year old man can like myself can walk into a movie theatre, take his seat, and in mere moments after the start of a film, be instantly transformed into a kid again. But that’s just happened when I went to ...

Pros: It's Superman!
Cons: Routh's lack of transition between Clark and Superman; Lex's plot

Ah, the Man of Steel. A part of everyone’s life in some way or another. Whether you grew up with the comic books, the George Reeves show, or you were one of the few to see the Broadway Musical (which only ran for 126 shows, oddly enough), unless you’ve ...

Pros: casting, dialogue, acting and style
Cons: slight CG glitches and a touch long.

I take a pause from my Christopher Moore diatribe to bring you SUPERMAN! I rented 2 highly publicized and anticipated films over the week-end (the other was DaVinci Code…ehhh…) and what a world of difference. PLOT: Superman ...

Pros: Casting, directing, special effects, character development
Cons: Light on action sequences, Kevin Spacey doesn't get to be as strong

Ten years ago, I probably would've been drooling at the prospect of a Superman movie coming out. But given that there are so many choices out there for comic books, I found myself not being all that enthusiastic about the film. Perhaps it's the loads of ...

Pros: Picks up where the Superman movies left off
Cons: Picks up where the Superman movies left off

Over the last two years, Batman and Superman have been relaunched in their motion picture incarnations. Both characters had gone through a similar run at the cinema. The initial couple of pictures were successful, both at the box office and with the ...

Pros:

The opening credits. (Fun, zooming, cool.)

Cons: The film. (Dull, plodding, foul.)

"The overpowering and nauseating stench of the sasquatch is the most memorable feature of many sasquatch encounters..."< i>- John Bindernagel, North America's Great Ape< b>Let's face one important truth: Superhero movies are ...

Pros: good special FX, character driven, music, good continuity, etc.
Cons: been there done that, slow paced, Superman shouldn't exist in the first place...

I just gotta love Superhero movies, it's really been the craze in the past few years, leading to some truly brilliant films (Batman Begins, Spider-Man 1 & 2, X-Men Trilogy) and some not so great films (Daredevil, The Hulk, The Punisher) and some films ...

Pros: Pretty close to the original films
Cons: Not the best of scripts

Back when I was younger (many moons ago!) we had superheroes who are coming back to the big screen in their droves - spiderman, the x-men, the fantastic four and of course, the best of the lot - Superman. I was a huge fan of the Superman movies when I ...