Two words: Cheez and Whiz.

Wait for DVD.

Nah. I thought it was excellent. I enjoyed it more than X3!

But that's just me. The Spidey trailer was almost worth the price of admission by itself.

The movie was pretty awful,

Great cast, great acting, OMG great visuals.

One of the dullest and lamest plots I've ever had to sit through. The pacing was so poor that you crave the credits.


SSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Boring.

Wow. Can't believe that Rian of all people is a hater.

I LOVED THIS MOVIE!

It showed true reverence and passion for the superman mythos and character.

Routh truly channeled Christopher Reeve in almost every scene.

It showed Superman doing truly -epic- things, not just flying around in the air.

It didn't waste time rehashing the origin story (like so many people claim).

It took the time to laugh at itself and the superhero mythos, never taking itself too seriously.

People have become so jaded that they just can't give in to the truly epic feel of the Boy Scout and just go along for the ride.

I put this equal to the first Spidey movie as truly establishing what the super-hero movie should be about. And for me, that's saying a lot.

DON'T LISTEN TO THE HATE!

I thought this movie was absolutely amazing.

However, people who want tons of action may be disappointed, because this is a movie seeped in character moments. That's right, we get characters with real, palpable emotions in this flick instead of a dozen action scenes with no substance.

This movie is going to stick with me for awhile, but I am a bit biased.

See it, and judge for yourself.

This is exactly my feeling. Except for Lois. Terrible acting, poorly cast, and the lipgloss in every shot? Sheesh.

Supes was perfect, I'll give you that. The rest was a snoozefest. Was there a plot at all?

I strongly disagree.

I will agree with all of those. But. It was like setting the table with the fancy dishes, then serving Cheez Whiz. I just wish that the epic feeling would have been used for a gripping storyline instead of some knock-off soap opera predictable nothing. It was all character and location, no plot twist.

I'm tired of the "goofy" Lex Luthor. Kevin Spacey could have been so decidely evil that any memory of goofy lex would've been erased from my mind...

Alas, it wasn't mean to be... Sure he was more evil than Gene Hackman's Luthor, but once again we get comic relief for a villain, when Luthor hasn't been like that in the comics since the 1970's :(

My wife never partakes in any of my supergeekiness. She agreed to go with me to this one. She ended up loving the movie. That's good enough for me. I looked over once and saw a tear. She thought she killed superman. She never goes, and the one time she does, she thought she killed superman. It was great.

Acting was so-so, but Routh looked the part to a T. There were a lot of parts of the story that were truly unbelievable, but since I'm one of those people that can forget reality and just enjoy the movie, I did.

I think Singer has placed himself near the top of Hero directors.

Now, how much longer until Captain Jack? Yarrr!

Or the bottom, per personal preference.

In Entertainment Weekly he was quoted:

"Superman Returns is my least homosexual movie."

Ewww.

A.) Out of context (he was responding to allegations he "gayed up" Superman, so it's not like he just came up with this comment out context)

B.) "Ewww"? What are you, five?

Avoiding stu's homophobia, let's get back to the movie.

First thing - Superman is Superman. He's not Batman with a dark brooding shadow. He's not Spider-man, struggling to reconcile his life and his powers. He's not the X-men, fighting for a better world for mutants.

He's an icon. He -should- be stereotypical. I would almost argue he should be 2-dimensional. Superman isn't about moral ambiguity or angst. He's about what happens when someone with immense power chooses to use that power only for good.

And that's what makes this movie so great. It doesn't try to make Superman anything more than what we -want- him to be - The iconic hero.

And also remember, it's been almost 30 years since we've first seen Superman on the big screen. Since that time he's been killed, reborn and redefined on public tv.

This movie reminds us what Superman was always intended to be. Something that I think we've forgotten along the way.

Almost 45 actually.

I have no problem with it, it just didn't work for me in the context of superheroes. My "Ewww" was a gut reaction to the fact that I now have an image of Bryan Singer subliminally directing the X-men with a sexual agenda. I wish the media would just leave the personal sexual politics out of it, but when they pushed him on the issue I thought he came up with a very unfortunate quote.

Special effects were excellent.

Brandon Routh was good.

Kevin Spacey was decent.

Lois Lane sucked.

Storyline sucked....EXCEPT for........

**************WARNING!!************SPOILER!!*******

....the fact that the El bloodline will continue!

Overall, i thought the movie paid homage to all previous movies and mythos. The next one should be 10x better now that a lot of crap is outta the way....