Simone
I really wanted to like Superman Returns. I'm a big fan of Superman and when I want to like a film, most of the time I do. But not this time. I'旁羡m sorry, but all I can rate this film is two stars... and I'm being EXTREMELY generous there! Basically, one star is for the special effects, the other star is for Kevin Spacey's Lex Luthor. However, even with Kevin Spacey there are still areas to criticise. Firstly, the Clark/Lois/皮启携Superman love triangle... Where was it? Superman occupied the whole screen and it was almost as if he had no personal life outside Superman at all! There'燃伏s a quote he uses in the comics: 'I'm Clark Kent first and Superman second'. That certainly DID NOT come across at all. One of the things I liked about Spiderman and Batman Begins, is that it didn't just focus on the lives of the heroes, it also focused on their alter ego's lives. Routh was on the screen as Clark for what must have been overall, about ten minutes! Not just that, but in the comics, it was Clark who managed to win Lois over and marry her, not Superman. By the end of the film Clark has absolutely no chance at all of getting with Lois! Anyways moving on, Lex Luthor! I like Kevin Spacey a lot. His Lex Luthor, brought a smile to my face with his little evil one-liners. However, in an interview with Kevin Spacey I'd read, he said he was going to play his Lex Luthor dark/ruthless... I watched the original Superman film the day before I went to watch Superman Returns and Spacey played his Lex Luthor EXACTLY THE SAME. Third point... I was under the impression after watching The Hulk, that the only good which came from that film, was that it taught film makers that they have to keep the comic fans happy. So how come Lois had a son? Not only that, but how on Earth can that kid pass as under five years old? The kid looked and acted about 7. Not just that, you have to take into account the fact that Superman was gone for five years. Within them five years, Lois would have had to meet her husband, eventually get to the point were there that much in love they need to have a kid, then there's the nine months it takes to have a kid. With that in mind, plus the 'superboy' revelation which takes place around the middle of the film, you can see that either there must have been a weird time-flux, or the man Lois married is just thick as bricks! On the acting front, Kate Bosworth did her best as Lois Lane and full credit to her. However, I think that her being Lois Lane was bad casting. She just didn't appear to be the Lois in the comics or in the previous films at all. Criticism number 4. The plot. It was as if, they were making it all up as they went along. Crystals? I'm not being funny, but isn't the Fortress of solitude, made up of crystals? The crystals react with water and the fortress is in the North Pole, surrounded by snow which IS essentially water. So how come, the whole Northen region of the planet isn't engulfed by bloody crystals? It doesn't take a bloody idiot to notice that, never mind if you're actually one of the film makers spending a whole year producing it! And HOW, oh HOW... did nobody click on to the fact that Clark and Superman have both been gone for exactly the same amount of time, they both have the same hair/height/facial features, and they both have a weird fixation with Lois? Clark works at a bloody newsroom for God's sake! How did nobody in the Daily Planet, not figure it out? It's a place full of journalists! Anyways... I left the very small amount of compliments till the end. Basically the special effects were fantastic. The bullet in the eye, the falling shuttle when the wing snaps off, the heat vision, the freeze breath and the x-ray vision... basically if it weren't for the special effects, I would have angrily walked out the theatre about half way through. Advice for all comic heroes... unless your the X-men, do NOT let Brian Singer direct your movies. I cannot wait to see how they manage to pull off the next film!
