So we took Zen to see Superman. I wasn’t expecting it to be very good (none of the previous Supermans were really good, but at least the second and third were entertaining. This film was supposed to be a sequel to the first two movies only, which confused me a bit until I watched this movie and realized how important it was to have this film follow on Kal-el and Lois’ “one night love affair” in the Fortress of Solitude. This film breaks from conventional Superman lore as well, and James Marsden shows up as Perry White’s nephew Johnny (or something). And so he’s in both the X-Men series (which was started off by Bryan Singer) and Superman Returns (which is directed by Bran Singer, who makes his second use of Kevin Spacey. Well, Spacey’s Lex Luthor is not too bad, but too bad he’s got a crappy screenplay to chew on. Oh well.
I wonder why the Superman movies never ham up the camp aspect of the Superman comics. With all of Superman’s super-abilities (super-hearing, super-reflexes, super-apetite, super-digestion, super-indigestion), a list of which mentioned in nearly sixty years of Superman could probaly stretch to several pages, couldn’t they have used more? And what’s this fascination with pitting Superman against Lex Luthor, who has no super abilities of his own. Oh well, at least my curiosity is abated, and Zen and Naoko did enjoy it…
