For a minute there, I thought I saw Christopher Reeve in Brandon Routh, the new Superman, and he wasn't even born when the original came out.
"Superman Returns" capitalizes on special effects that the original could not even imagine, almost thirty years ago. The story line is more over the top than the original, too. At first, I was wondering if I was going to like it, but it grew on me.
For those of us who got to see the original TV series, there are occasional nods to it in lines in the script, which made me laugh out loud. The others around me never got the joke because they were too young to have seen it.
Routh is excellent, as is Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane. Kevin Spacey. however, is deliciously great as Lex Luthor. A great job indeed. He enjoyed making this movie.
I wavered between 7 and 9 for this movie as I was watching it, and settled on 9 for the inside jokes as homage to the original TV series and the superb performances by the central characters.
"Superman Returns" capitalizes on special effects that the original could not even imagine, almost thirty years ago. The story line is more over the top than the original, too. At first, I was wondering if I was going to like it, but it grew on me.
For those of us who got to see the original TV series, there are occasional nods to it in lines in the script, which made me laugh out loud. The others around me never got the joke because they were too young to have seen it.
Routh is excellent, as is Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane. Kevin Spacey. however, is deliciously great as Lex Luthor. A great job indeed. He enjoyed making this movie.
I wavered between 7 and 9 for this movie as I was watching it, and settled on 9 for the inside jokes as homage to the original TV series and the superb performances by the central characters.