Superman Lives as a Clone

Despite having little time these days, I managed to watch, but not hear over my four month old's bottle slurping and crying, all of Superman Returns.

It was a decent movie, but I didn't care for it very much.

In many ways it is a homage to the Superman Movies in the 1970s and 1980s that starred Christopher Reeves and Margot Kidder. In fact, the young actors playing Clark and Lois do their best impersonations of the interpretations of the characters as played by Christopher Reeves and Margot Kidder.

I've enjoyed some episodes of the earlier seasons of Smallville because it brought something different to the Superman character than the 1978 movie and sequels, but this movie does not.
Bryan Singer's movie is like one long tribute with some "tributes" more subtle than others. At one point there is even a scene in the movie that just about duplicates the cover of Action Comics 1, Superman's debut in 1938.

MASSIVE SPOILER ALERT!!!! Don't read any further is if you don't want to know the main plot point.


The other thing that bugged me was the writers used an old soap opera plot as the main story for their script.

In Superman Returns, Lois Lane has a child and is shacked up with another man, whom she keeps delaying marrying. Now everyone knows she's still in love with Superman, who is of course... Wait for it! Yes, the biological father of her child.

Whoa, that's original... At least Batman Begins was really good.