Superman Returns
Director: Bryan Singer
Year: 2006
Stars: Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth, James Marsden, Kevin Spacey
I love Superman. It was always my favourite adapted comic as a child. Mind you, I obviously don't love it enough to go and watch this at the cinema. Which turns out to have been the right decision. Being that I do love Superman, I was never going to hate this film. It has all the elements that make Superman what it is - Lex Luthor, Lois Lane, Clark Kent being desperately in love with Lois Lane, and even an overly enthusiastic Jimmy Olsen. All the elements that made me enjoy the TV show starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher so much (well, until it got really silly right at the end).
What this film doesn't have is any sense of when to stop. The plot, such as it is, isn't bad, and all the actors do their jobs well enough. But with a running time of 2 1/2 hours, it simply goes on for far too long. The plot would happily fill 1 1/2 hours, maybe even 2 at a push, but the makers just didn't seem to know when to stop. There seems to be an awful lot of pointless padding here.
Rating: 3 out of 5
About Me
- Anna Lawson
- I live in Bristol with my husband Dan (who I married in July 2007), my son Joe (born 2012) and daughter Jess (born 2015). I work at UWE (the University of the West of England) in Bristol as a Research and Open Access Librarian. I'm orginally from Exeter, so moving back to Bristol is a bit like coming home - especially as I studied for my undergraduate degree here (also at UWE). I love travelling and movies, although I get to do a lot less of both since the birth of our children. Although we have still managed to fit in holidays to the Isles of Scilly, Chamonix and a summer in California since Joe was born.
1 comment:
Superman Returns - best afternoons kip I've had for a while!
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