I have finally seen the much awaited Superman Returns movie I’ve been looking forward to for the last 10 or so years. I booked our Gold Class tickets early, so Mel and I had perfect seats in the Karingal cinemas.
After we worked out our food orders, and got through the wierd previews (some crappy movies coming) we were introduced to the movie through the traditional style of the orignal films. The opening credit’s text would woosh in and out just like the 1970’s ones, over the John Williams theme. Nice touch. They also managed to simulate the traditional Christopher Reeve “space” ending as well.
We shall start with the bad. The acting let this movie down big time. No one seemed to be talking, walking or reacting naturally, everything seemed extremely forced. On the other hand, the story, the special effects, the costumes and the sets were all amazing.
The lead was played by Brandon Routh. Once I settled with his style of Superman, I found him to be a great choice for the role. Like Reeve, he was a relativley onknown actor until this movie. Kevin Spacey played the role of Lex Luthor perfectly, as we expected he would. Jimmy Olsen was entertaining and the rest … no comment.
Over all a great movie that I will be seeing again. Hopefully we won’t be surrounded by grown men in capes next time.
. To top it off it ended with a John Mayer version of route 66 that I was not aware about until it started playing during the credits (great guess by me 10 second into it!).
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