Superman Returns

Superman Returns

Went for Superman Returns with the BU gang … and I’ll also talk a bit about the evening la …

We almost missed the show cause we made a blunder on the timing, where we lost our bookings, but due to our CRM know-how, we squeezed in seats albeit that we had to sit in ‘couple seats’ … so the only funny thing is, we had the only people in those couple seat rows with guy-guy occupying it. Good laugh. I leaned to my right, & YL leaned to his left as we had no arm rest in the middle. Hilarious.

So anyway, it started off ok … just that the movie had a very 70s feel (DL concurred) and I almost thought it was like star wars with the zigzagging around the planets & stars thingy at the start. Then bla bla bla, Clark Kent this, Superman that, Lois Lane this … suddenly we got Kal Penn (Kumar from Harold & Kumar go to White Castle) as honcho of Lex Luthor (the movie’s baddie supreme) … and later we see James Marsden (Cyclops from X-Men) as the husband-beau (whatever since they were supposedly not married) of Lois Lane. Which reminds me, no wonder Cyclops died early in X-Men 3, he couldn’t be acting at both Superman Returns & X-Men … and probably Bryan Singer couldn’t part with him (they must be some kind of fraternity brothers or something). And the costume? The red is just funny … not the old red I saw, this had more … maroon-ish touch.

So anyway, enough crapping about the craps … go to the movie. These guys at Warner Brothers really found another Christopher Reeves clone … and they not just got an actor that looks like him, they also planted the entire movie with a 70s feel … yes we see gadgets of today like plasma, clamshell mobiles, but the seaplane, the yellowish feel around the movie just makes it a weird touch.

And Lois Lane? She’s ok looking, but definitely not the (ahem) bombshell or (quoted by the Lee brothers) kick-ass as fans perceived her to be. She’s now sports a maternal feel, left in between the new man in her life & man of the past, Superman. There’s however a moment of tenderness between her & Superman (you might have seen it in the clips).

The whole movie is ok, Superman returns from Krypton, baddie emerges creates chaos, Superman battles his own demons, then battles the baddie, but the ending does not include him getting the girl. But consolation (maybe), he got a kid off her. Not too bad huh? And the kid’s name is … ahem … Jason.

Go watch it (it’s superman anyway) and you don’t want to be the only wheeze who’s left out. It’s ok, but go with minimal expectations. Just another Superman movie.