Superman Returns (Two-Disc Special Edition)

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Superman Returns (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Starring: Brandon Routh , Kate Bosworth , Kevin Spacey , James Marsden , and Parker Posey
Director: Bryan Singer
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Product Group: DVD
Binding: DVD
ASIN: B000J10ERO
2006-11-28

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If Richard Donner's 1978 feature film Superman: The Movie made us believe a man could fly, Bryan Singer's 2006 follow-up, Superman Returns, lets us remember that a superhero movie can make our spirits soar. Superman (played by newcomer Brandon Routh) comes back to Earth after a futile five-year search for his destroyed home planet of Krypton. As alter ego Clark Kent, he's eager to return to his job at the Daily Planet and to see Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth). Lois, however, has moved on: she now has a fiancé (James Marsden), a son (Tristan Leabu), and a Pulitzer Prize for her article entitled "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman." On top of this emotional curveball, his old archrival Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey) is plotting the biggest land grab in history.

Singer, who made a strong impression among comic-book fans for his work on the X-Men franchise and directed Spacey in The Usual Suspects, brings both a fresh eye and a sense of respect to the world's oldest superhero. He borrows John Williams's great theme music and Marlon Brando's voice as Jor-El, and the story (penned by Singer's X-Men collaborators Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris) is a sort-of-sequel to the first two films in the franchise (choosing to ignore that the third and fourth movies ever happened). The humorous and romantic elements give the movie a heart, Singer's art-deco Metropolis is often breathtaking, and the special effects are elegant and spectacular, particularly an early airplane-disaster set-piece. Of the cast, Routh is excellent as the dual Superman/Clark, Spacey is both droll and vicious as Luthor, and Parker Posey gets the best lines as Luthor's moll Kitty. But at 23, Bosworth seems too young for the five-years-past-grizzled Lois. It's nice to see Noel Neill, Jack Larson (both from the classic Adventures of Superman TV series), and Eva Marie-Saint on the screen as well. Superman Returns is one of those projects that was in development for seemingly forever, but it was worth the wait -- it's the most enjoyable superhero movie since Spider-Man 2 and The Incredibles. --David Horiuchi

On the DVD
The two-disc edition offers about three hours of documentaries and other features. "Requiem for Krypton: Making Superman Returns" is an eight-part documentary about the movie, going back to Bryan Singer conceiving the movie back in 2004. There's a lot of on-set footage and analyses of special effects and stunts such as Brandon Routh's flying (helped by his swimming regimen), focusing more on the filming process than the design. For example, we see how the Metropolis scenes were shot but not how the often-striking sets were designed. Marlon Brando appears briefly in the bloopers section, and "Resurrecting Jor-El" spotlights the techniques used to create his footage. The eleven deleted scenes (about 15 minutes total) contain nothing earth-shaking, but it's nice to see more Eva Marie-Saint, one scene of Clark back in Smallville that could have altered the dynamic of his return to The Daily Planet, and a scene between Kevin Spacey and Parker Posey that is good for a laugh. --David Horiuchi

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He's back. A hero for our millennium. And not a moment too soon, because during the five years (much longer in movie-fan years!) Superman sought his home planet, things changed on his adopted planet. Nations moved on without him. Lois Lane now has a son, a fiance and a Pulitzer for "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman." And Lex Luthor has a plan that will destroy millions - no, billions - of lives. Filmmaker Bryan Singer (X-Men) gives the world the Superman it needs, honoring the legend everyone loves while taking it in a powerful new direction. Brandon Routh proves a perfect choice to wear the hero's cape, leading a top cast that includes Kate Bosworth as Lois and Kevin Spacey as Lex. And the thrills - from a sky-grapple with a tumbling jumbo jet to a continent-convulsing showdown - redefine Wow. "I'm always around," Superman tells Lois. You'll be glad he is.

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Superman Returns, great movie, but.........2007-06-09

Bryan Singer did a great job, I thought Brandon Routh was excellent,
Lois Lane(Kate Bosworth)is a good actress but to "Katherine hepburn" for me. Kevin spacey was very good, although I prefer the "Non crazy" cool
Lex of the animated series and smallville etc.. to the movie Lex.
I thought they would start the series over which I would have prefered.
The symbolism to Jesus needs to end. Even if someone had super powers he's not God and doesn't have God's attributes. My dream Superman movie would be the cast of Smallville although I doubt they would want to be type cast, especially Tom Welling.

Superman returns.......2007-06-06

New special effects OK, but history is in some way same like the first one. Hope to see the second part with something different.

drz

A weak version of the original........2007-06-01

This movie is just a retread of the original Superman movie. The plot is basically the same, except for the lame subplot about Superman and Louis' kid. All of the actors are just doing impressions of their counterparts in the Donner film, instead of taking the parts in new directions. It seems to me like the film makers wanted to take the safe route and just do a re-make, instead of taking a chance with a new story line. Luther has his crazy land scheme (never mind that this new version of the scheme would ultimately leave everyone dead, including Luther himself), and then there is the pondorously boring relationship between Louis and Clark. I have always found it humorous in Superman that all Superman had to do was put on a pair of glasses, and then everybody thought he was a totally different person. Christoher Reeve played to this and acted like such a coward that you could understand why others could never equate him with Superman, and Donner put in a key scene early, where Louis is being mugged, Clark acts scared and faints, while actually saving louis by grabbing the bullet. From that point on you could understand why she would never think Clark was Superman. In this film there is very little difference by the way Superman behaves as himself and Clark except for the glasses thing. There is even a scene where the main characters are sitting at the Daily Planet, louis is at her desk working, and constantly putting her glasses on and of, and yet no one ever mistakes her for being someone else. My best advice is to avoid this film and buy the original, everything is just better in that one. The one star that I gave this movie was for the excellent opening credits, it really got me pumped up, unfortunately it was all down hill from there.

Lacked in areas.......2007-05-29

This should normally have been a five-star rating but there were a couple of things that irked me, despite some of the inconsistencies. It was funny, the visual effects have been much improved since the last Superman releases, the acting was very impressive, and the story has been moved forward in a way that fans have been begging for a very long time.

But for a Superman movie there was a lot of talk, talk, talk, talk, talk... while leaving everybody waiting for the next bit of action. The action does come, but in small little pieces that leave you wishing for more. This movie does not give Superman the screentime to really show off his powers.

I was also irked by some of the changes. For instance, the phrase, "life, liberty, and all that stuff?" What, is the American Way not good enough anymore? And some of the comparisons between Superman and Jesus Christ were a little unsettling. Christ is the founder of one of the largest religions on this planet, DC shouldn't be getting such an ego comparing their comic book character to him.

I got the High Definition edition of Superman and was very disappointed. The picture quality, while better than DVD, was not as good as most of the other DVD movies that I've picked up. The lack of high definition was very surprising considering the money put into this movie.

I hope they make a sequel, there is still a lot to learn and see from Superman. And now that film technology has caught up (and bypassed) the imagination of DC comics I hope they don't delay on making more movies.

Mildly entertaining but..........2007-05-27

Superman is Jesus? WTF?
When did that happen?
As far as lame superhero movies go, this one is visually stimulating and not a total bore, but the lack of interesting characters coupled with the religious overlay was too much for me to stomach.

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