Superman neeRAB to be rebooted, right down to John Williams' marvellous original musical score with its memorable themes. Superman existed for over 40 years in print, film and TV before Williams composed his score for a single film.
Superman Returns was a lousy comeback for the Man of Steel.
It just stank of pointlessness. Here you can watch a film trying to be Superman 78' right down to Brandon Routh trying so desperately hard to be Christopher Reeve, it's no secret that he happens to resemble him. That's where it stops however. Routh is as wooden as an oak tree in Returns.
Why watch poor imitation, when you can watch the glorious real thing?
He just reminded me of Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future Part II. In the opening of the film his performance is poor, where as he is fine for the rest of its duration, as he was in the first film (thankfully, more than can be said for Routh). Why? Because he is lousy at impersonating himself. His performance at the end of the original was natural. The opening of the sequel, which is a recap of the original, only it all had to be re-shot to incorporate Elisabeth Shue into the picture, just screams forced and second rate. Shue wasn't much better either, Claudia Wells portrayed Jennifer quite differently. Even if she wasn't on screen all that much, she was the superior actress in the role. Only Michael J. Fox manages to recreate his performance with ease, almost the same as it was in the original version of the sequence.
You will never get another great Superman film, they should at least make a respectable one this time around though. One that doesn't acknowledge its classic original so incredibly frequently that it loses any sense or reason for existing on its own terms.
