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- AdventureFantasyHollywood ToneAction
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- Contemporary21st Century
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Superman Returns, 2006
English, German, French
Australia, USA
Profile of Superman Returns
The mood of Superman Returns is stylized, gloomy, and exciting. The plot centers around superhuman powers, superheroes, and a master villain. It is an adventure, fantasy, and action movie. Stylistically, Superman Returns has a Hollywood tone. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. It happens in contemporary times. Superman Returns is adapted from a comic. The movie is known for being a blockbuster, an award winner, and critically acclaimed. It is especially suggested for a date night, teens, and a boys' night. Note that Superman Returns includes violent content.
Summary of Superman Returns
For five years, Superman (Brandon Routh) has been away from Earth, coaxed into space by a belief that Krypton may still exist. Finding nothing, he comes back to a changed world--not only has terrorism become rampant, but Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth) has married, started a family, and won the Pulitzer for her piece "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman." After a stop in Smallville to see his adopted mother (Eva Marie Saint), Superman is back in Metropolis, and Clark Kent has his old job back at the Daily Planet, with everyone still incredibly oblivious to his alter ego. But where there's Superman, there's Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey), and he is likely to be planning something dastardly--in this case, using a piece of pilfered kryptonite to grow an entirely new continent that he will control.
Bryan Singer (X-MEN 1 and 2), armed with a script by Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty, approaches the red cape with reverence for the lore of the character, and respect for Richard Donner's SUPERMAN (1980) and Richard Lester's 1980 sequel, films that ushered in the era of the modern superhero film. Singer's SUPERMAN is filled with melancholy, and not so subtly suggests the notion of Superman as a Christ figure, sacrificing himself to save mankind. But there are still laughs, mostly courtesy of Spacey (clearly having a blast) and Parker Posey as his moll, Kitty Kowalski, as well as plenty of gasp-inducing set pieces, including a spectacular and terrifying almost-plane crash and a sinking boat. While modern visual effects have allowed Superman to go to entirely new realms, Singer keeps them from becoming the film's raison d'être, thus keeping the Man of Steel's gigantic heart intact--heavy though it may be.
Details
| Language: | English, German, French |
| Country: | Australia, USA |
| Release date: | 21 June 2006 |
| Runtime: | 154 min |
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as Clark Kent / Superman
as Lois Lane
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Variety
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- by: Todd McCarthy
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