For the record, I LOVE Superman Returns.
This is because I AM A SUPERMAN FAN!

I don’t think it’s perfect and I fully understand why it was met with such disappointment. But it nailed SUPERMAN. Brandon Routh was quietly confident, tirelessly loyal and cripplingly lonely. But he never doubted himself, never indulged in this all-too-trendy identity crisis. Returns’ Supes did his job. He saved people.
And was happy to do it!

Best of all, the origin story was skimmed over because Bryan Singer rightly assumed everyone on the face of the gorram planet was familiar with it!

Zach Snyder and Christopher Nolan seem to have erred in assuming the very opposite...


If a trailer is typically considered sufficient to excite audiences, then I feel justified my concerns for Man of Steel.

I DON’T WANT to watch a film wherein the world’s finest Superhero doubts whether or not he should enjoy his limitless power. Or save a busload of drowning chizzlers...

I DON’T NEED a Superman tale in which he fishes, fishes, rather than saving lives, inspiring good deeds and high fiving everyone in Western Europe!

I DON’T LIKE the prospect of watching Henry Cavill act like a martyr when in fact he’s the luckiest sumbitch (fictional or otherwise) in the history of storytelling.

So, bearing my deliberately apparent bias in mind, let’s take a closer look at yesterday’s Theatrical Trailer...



















Honestly, if Returns’ major flaw was aping the Donner efforts, then Man of Steel is taking the piss.

So, Congratulations everyone!
Looks like you’re getting that Superman film with some fights in it!

Kal El will doubtless match fists and lock lasers with Faora, Zod and an armada of fling carapaces. It just looks like we’ll have to put up with 90 minutes of soul searching, self doubt and Clark Kent’s very best Peter Parker impersonation before that!