Superman Returns

July 2nd, 2006 | View Comments

Cover of Superman Returns

Director: Bryan Singer
Starring: Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth
Rating: 3.5 Fish
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Superman Returns met all my expectations for a hero/action/fantasy movie: cool visuals, a few good jokes, and pretty boys.

I also got a few bonuses.

I did not hate Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane. While she wasn’t quite the Lois Lane that I was expecting, she was surprisingly tolerable and even likeable at times.

This is in sharp contrast to Katie Holmes’s Rachel Dawson in Batman Begins, who had been onscreen all of five minutes when I decided I wanted her character dead so Batman could move onto someone who could actually play a determined, ambitious woman.

Parker Posey! Although she was sadly underused.

And finally, two plotlines that I cynically predicted but thankfully never materialized:

Yvonne posted this on July 2nd, 2006 @ 12:53am in Movie Reviews | Permalink to "Superman Returns"

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