Superman Returns

[OrangeEmpire]

Review Cinescape.com

I probably can’t write anything new about SUPERMAN RETURNS. Most of you have seen it already and probably love it or hate it. For those in search of a quick answer, I thoroughly enjoyed the film. It elevates the source material to mature heights never even reached by Richard Donner’s or Richard Lester’s films. More than that, it presents not so much a summer action movie, but an adult drama punctuated by climactic, resonant action pieces. It clarifies Superman for any naysayer that’s ever called the character a simplistic, one-note, or a Big Blue Boy Scout. It also presents an unmistakable Christian allegory, albeit one that doesn’t follow any of the Gospels step by step. For that reason, SUPERMAN RETURNS stands as the most spiritual comic adaptation ever made, and also the one most difficult for me, personally, to watch. I’ll explain shortly. And, for those wondering, this review piles spoiler on top of spoiler.

I thought the movie was good. Both my wife and I enjoyed it but halfway through watching the movie we both looked at each other and said that we liked Batman Begins better.

I think my biggest quirk with it right now is that it is a sequel to the 2nd Superman film.

Did any one else catch the Jesus Christ Imagry?

The cinescape reviewer explains his thoughts on the Jesus Christ Imagry toward the end of the film.

I do have to say that both my wife and I commented after we saw the movie on what we thought was Jesus Christ imagry throughout the movie.

Are we just brainwahsed crazy right wing christians who thought it was blantant, or did any one else notice it also?

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

Haven't seen it and probably won't unless it comes on HBO some Sunday afternoon just as the batteries in my remote go dead.

 

[allvol@15]

i saw it and thought it was great! it just seems like jesus imagery but its just the superman story from the comic

 

[Orange-Neck]

It was mediocre

 

[MyBloodRunnethOrange]

Haven't seen it. I'll probablt wait till it comes to On Demand in a few months.

 

[Freak]

Review Cinescape.com
I thought the movie was good. Both my wife and I enjoyed it but halfway through watching the movie we both looked at each other and said that we liked Batman Begins better.

I think my biggest quirk with it right now is that it is a sequel to the 2nd Superman film.

Did any one else catch the Jesus Christ Imagry?

The cinescape reviewer explains his thoughts on the Jesus Christ Imagry toward the end of the film.

I do have to say that both my wife and I commented after we saw the movie on what we thought was Jesus Christ imagry throughout the movie.

Are we just brainwahsed crazy right wing christians who thought it was blantant, or did any one else notice it also?

I noticed it for whatever reason.

I didn't really like the movie much. I was disappointed.

 

[checkerboard_charly]

so it begins after the second one??? all the others dont exist in this movie???


what a bunch of b.s.!!!

 

[mattvols]

it was pretty good but way too long. The Jesus imagry never crossed my mind.