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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 19, 2008
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Brandon Routh | |
Performer: | Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, James Marsden, Parker Posey, Marlon Brando, Frank Langella & Eva Marie Saint | |
Directed by | Bryan Singer | |
Edited by | John Ottman & Elliot Graham | |
Screenwriting by | Dan Harris & Michael Dougherty | |
Composition by | John Ottman & John Williams | |
Story by | Dan Harris, Michael Dougherty & Bryan Singer | |
Produced by | Gilbert Adler, Jon Peters, William Fay, Chris Lee & Bryan Singer | |
Director of Photography: | Newton Thomas Sigal | |
Executive Production by | Thomas Tull & Scott Mednick |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
The battle is won: but only just.
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Guardian
Rating: 2/4 --
The man doesn't have an ounce of charisma and at best can only be described as an expressionless log of wood. In retrospect, I'd settle for our own delectable Hrithik.
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Outlook
Rating: 4/10 --
Would have benefited greatly from Singer trusting his talent and assembling a Superman movie that attempted to soar beyond the heights previously achieved decades ago.
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Lyles' Movie Files
Rating: C+ --
The biggest problem with Superman Returns is the script, which bogs down in the love story and forgets the action -- which should be the strong point.
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Bowling Green Daily News
Rating: 3/5 --
Superman Returns is a great kick start to a potentially knockout new franchise, which ultimately leaves the audience, like the people of Metropolis when its greatest hero returns to the skies, brimming with hope.
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Hollywood.com
Rating: B- --
One of this summer's best action movies.
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Film School Rejects
4 stars out of 5 -- It's the deftness with which the director walks this line between classic and contemporary that makes SUPERMAN RETURNS a success.
Total Film
Product Description:
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.
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.
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- Sales Rank: 41,893
- UPC: 085391177913
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