Superman Shouldn't Have Returned!!!

Now that I've got your attention, let me explain.

I've watched Superman Returns a few times now and I've finally come to the conclusion that Warner Brothers and Bryan Singer dropped the super monkey ball.

First let me talk about the positives. The casting was perfect. Kevin Spacey, Brandon Roth, and that Jimmy Olsen kid was great. Kate Bosworth did an ok job with Lois Lane but I think they should've cast someone else. Also Kal Penn was GREAT as "The Guy Who Nods". The movie was also shot very beautifully. Some of the scenes are really quite amazing. Bryan Singer is a great director and I believe he's only getting better and better.

Now everything else. You have a property that was officially dead after two shitty sequels and you wait almost 20 years to make a new one and this is what we get? Why make a movie that's a sequel to a dead franchise when instead you could build a whole new franchise.

For example, the Batman franchise DIED after "Batman & Robin". There was no saving that so instead they waited for just the right time. They got a great director, a whole new cast, and started all over. When putting together Superman Returns, Warner Brothers went out and got a great director, a whole new cast, and MADE A SEQUEL TO A MOVIE FROM 20 YEARS AGO. Superman 2 wasn't that great. The beginning was cool and the fight scene in Metropolis was a highlight, but then it went to shit. Superman bones Lois Lane, gives up his powers, gets them back, then TRICKS the bad guys with Batman tricks. Then to top it all off he KISSES Lois Lane and makes her forget the super sex and everything else. I hate to use coarse language but, HOW THE FUCK DOES THAT WORK?!?! Christopher Nolan didn't sit down and say, "I wonder what Batman and Robin did after they stopped Mr.Freeze." He decided to screw all that and start over fresh.

So instead of doing a brand new Superman, Bryan Singer did a tribute to Richard Donner and made a film filled with plot holes and reshots from the first film. Let me start with the plot holes. Clark Kent leaves for a few years and then just comes back and gets his job back. Also the day Clark comes back, so does Superman. Lex Luthor gets out of prison after trying to sink California in to the ocean, AND helping General Zod take over the White House. Lois Lane has a Super-Baby. Soooooo..........I don't even know how to explain that. Sure she had super sex with Superman but in theory she doesn't remember it because of the Super Kiss. Not to mention she should've died from labor. Finally, Lex beats the shit out of Superman and that's it. Superman doesn't even throw a punch in this movie. Lex ends up on an island? Did they run out of ideas at the end?

I also mentioned reshots from the first movie. Let's start in order. Opening credits, seeing young clark on the farm, Superman saves Lois on a plane, mentions how safe flying is, Lex steals kryptonite, Lex decides he wants land, tells Superman his whole plan, Lex sticks kryptonite on Superman and drops him in water to drown, Lex's gf makes sure that Lex in screwed in the end, Superman flies away. They looked great but I've seen all of THAT before.

Would it have been such a bad idea to just start over and give the fans what they want? I want evil scientist/business man Lex Luthor. I don't want a Super Baby!! Also I like a Superman who beats things up. Brainiac, Metallo, Bizzaro, the Parasite, any of those would have been cool to see. Instead we got a remake/sequel of the other Superman movies.

In conclusion, I can't wait for Spider-Man 3.