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Superman Returns
Release Date: June 28, 2006
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Bryan Singer
Screenwriter: Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris
Starring: Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth, James Marsden, Frank Langella, Eva Marie Saint, Parker Posey, Sam Huntington, Kal Penn, Kevin Spacey
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some intense action violence)


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Synopsis:
Following a mysterious absence of several years, the Man of Steel comes back to Earth in the epic action-adventure Superman Returns, a soaring new chapter in the saga of one of the world's most beloved superheroes. While an old enemy plots to render him powerless once and for all, Superman faces the heartbreaking realization that the woman he loves, Lois Lane, has moved on with her life. Or has she? Superman's bittersweet return challenges him to bridge the distance between them while finding a place in a society that has learned to survive without him. In an attempt to protect the world he loves from cataclysmic destruction, Superman embarks on an epic journey of redemption that takes him from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of outer space. — More here

 

 
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REVIEWS: 76% POSITIVE
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The Big Guy's Back. We Missed Him
David Ansen
Newsweek
Singer did the right thing. From the start of this gorgeously crafted epic, you can feel that Singer has real love and respect for the most foursquare comics superhero of them all, as well as a reverence for the Donner version, which serves as his visual and emotional template. In "Superman Returns" (written by Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris from a story they cooked up with Singer), the caped crusader for truth, justice, etc...

Familiar "Man of Steel"
Amy Biancolli
Houston Chronicle
"Superman Returns," Bryan Singer's serviceable hero update, suffers from our universal familiarity with the subject. Sure, it's been nearly 20 years since the last Man of Steel hit the big screen, but we absorb Captain Cape's attributes by pop-cultural osmosis. We know his back story, his enemies, his strengths, his weaknesses ... heck, we know more about his girlfriends than some of us know about our spouses. So the main point of "Superman Returns" is that Singer spends 2 1/2 hours avoiding a franchise-size fumble...

With nod to past, 'Superman' flies
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
So it's a good film but not a great one; at the very least, you can tell the people behind ``Superman Returns" have an abiding fondness for this 70-year-old pop myth. They're not hacks, and this isn't ``Superman IV: The Quest for Peace ." Still, you may wonder if a fan's worship can be its own kind of green Kryptonite...

Man of Heart
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
The Superman who returns in "Superman Returns" is a different Man of Steel than we are used to seeing. In "Superman: The Movie," the film by director Richard Donner in 1978, the late Christopher Reeve rescued the iconic superhero from high camp with the sincerity and warmth of his acting. His Superman was a romantic charmer. Director Bryan Singer positions this new film as a sequel to Donner's film, and his Superman -- played with winning fortitude by newcomer Brandon Routh -- is less a Man of Steel than a Man of Heart...

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