The action was dull, slow boring. The acting was uninspired and wooden and putting superman in a hospital bed, complete with visiting times for his nearest and dearest (Lois Lane-but not his poor mum) just hammered the final nail into the coffin.

Superman Returns was a crap, ego trip for Singer. Nothing about it bears any hint of originality and well thought out film making.

1:) I say get rid of Singer. He had his chance and screwed up big-time. Who gives a rats ass if he made the Usual Suspects and X-Men. X-men 1 and 2 sucked of mediocreness anyway, and he still screwed up Superman.

Get a director who understands action and how to use the characters supporting cast and villains to make him shine. Mark Miller is an interesting choice as a writer and I think Lousie Leterierre (??spelling??) may make a good choice, becuase he may be the only hope of fans seeing superman throw a punch at a supervillain, rather than cower in weakness and vulnerability every time Lex Luthor uses his brilliant intellectual prowess to clutch a chunk of kryptonite!

3:) Brandon Routh did a descent job playing Superman, but his Clark Kent was terrible and lacked the clumsy but secretly deliberate behaviour as demonstrated by the great and late Christopher Reeve. Example: Anyone remember the scene in Superman (Donner version) when Clark throws his hat onto the coat hanger, whilst smiling at Lois while she ignores him? The hat landed with perfect ’superman’accuracy, but the persona of Clark Kent is still in play. That little bit of Superman shot through the bumbling Clark Kent impression. Kal-el let his confidence and prowess show in an attempt to impress Lois Lane, but risked his bumbling Clark act at the same time. You got the impression that he was willing to take risks with his Clark act, that he just wanted to break free of it and be Super and get Lois to like him. That was greatness in character acting.

Get an actor with a large build to play Superman. Routh is to slim. I just can’t believe he can lift an island, let alone the daily planet globe with those slim arms.

4:) Get an actress with ‘balls’ to play Lois Lane. Kate Boswarth was a disaster. In-fact, I thought at the time that Parker Poser would have made a much better choice as Lois. She seems like an actress who can deliver some fire to the role. Who the hell was Kate Bosworth before Superman Returns anyway? I don’t remember hearing about her and havn’t heard about her since. I fear she may have been one of those silly teen soap (one tree hill, OC) talentless dumbletons!

4:) No Lex Luthor. Period. Except to kill him off at the beginning, maybe. That would be good.

5:)Action! Destruction! Supervillains! ZOD! BRANIAC! Bring back the threat of Zod , Ursa and Non! Smash it up with Braniac! Give Doomsday his Hollywood debut!

Make the next Superman movie an action spectacular from minute one to the end. Destroy a few buildings, unleash heat vision blasts that show it’s destructive power! Have superman being thrown through buildings and punching opponents into space and using trucks, cars and lorries to hurtle and smash at the villain! If it takes Loise Leterriere to do that, then sign him up NOW!

Ang Lee went from commercial disappointment to Oscar winning Best Director and kept his pride and his reputation. Singer won’t be on the sequel because he has too much self-respect to be the next Brett Ratner. Once the stigma of Studio Hack gets stuck to him, he’d never recover. Dreams of following in Ang Lee’s footsteps will be dead.

Anyone who cared about Brian Singer as a person or as an artist, more than some made up comicbook character, would want him off this sequel. Selfish geeks need to remember, Superman isn’t real but Brian Singer is, and he needs to be far away from this studio-dictated sequel. Selfish geeks urging Brian Singer into becoming Brett Ratner is a repulsive spectacle.

Singer can do this now that he isn’t under the crutch of having to focus on Lex Luthor. Lex is a terrific character for comics (and even the increasingly boring Smallville) but not a film which has to include a complete story arc in two hours.

Of course, the fact that we’ve just recently had a Superman movie probably precludes the possibility of the next Superman, even if it were to be a great reboot, becoming epic and iconic like it’s 70’s counterparts. It’s just too soon.

It does suck to talk about a reboot just a couple years after a movie is released but they really did screw it up IMO. I say let Singer go he had the Superman movie he dreamed of and it sucked so I say let someone else take it on. Maybe Leterrier could do a good job who knows just as long as it isn’t Singer.

Superman is a hard character to write for everyone knows that, he is basically a god on Earth so they really need to step it up with the villains. They can do plenty with his “humanity” without turning him into home wrecking stalker with an illegitimate son …

Also, Metropolis, can we please have the city semi futuristic like it is in the comics. I don’t want to see any more of this nostalgic retro 50’s shit that we’ve seen in the last movie. Its should be a beacon for the future not a stroll down memory lane.

I’m fine with bringing Routh back, but I would like them to bulk him up a little more, he was a little too slight in Returns and Supes needs some presence. If they decided to not bring Routh back, I’d love to see a Supes that’s more in tone with how Alex Ross has painted him, a more stout figure.

Warner’s has painted themselves in a corner with the poor plot choices from the last film, they can’t just recast, they have to reboot to get rid of the Super Baby, and in order to give Superman a proper backstory, one where he wasn’t a selfish ass who ditched humanity for years to go look for rocks in space, and no super-daddy!

I would have gone with letting Singer continue, but then I’m just afraid he’s going to be continuing the tale of Super-Ba$tard (the kid) and another re-hashed plot. Let’s let Leterrier take the reigns and bring this movie franchise back to the ground and not up in skies where folks with over-inflated egos (cough, Singer) can see the same vision of Superman.

And get one talented effects studio to do the CG this time. Don’t farm it out to a bunch of second raters. Get Weta or the top ILM guys to work on it.

Perhaps Fincher can match Nolan’s reboot with Superman. He’s not opposed to genre stuff.

I’ve a seen plenty of people here that actually liked the film. I want to say that I respect your opinion, but I don’t understand it, so if any of you would be kind enough to tell me, with good reasons why you think Superman Returns was good, maybe I’ll understand better what’re you thinking. I really want to know.

In my opinion, as well as most people I know, the movie was bad. Not because it lack action, but because of the non-canonical ridiculous main plots (the kid, weak Lois, the crystal island stuff, etc.) Also I think that Supes lifting a Kryptonite island was entirely ridiculous. Isn’t this the same thing that just small piece of it, not even touching him but only close to him can hurt/kill him? Overall I think the script was lame.

Also, I think Kate Bosworth is not a very good actress, and I think she did a bad job in this movie, specially. Plus, the Lois interpretation that she was given to her to play didn’t help her either. So please, do not recast her. Put 60 years old Margot Kidder again before recasting her!

Routh has to stay period.(period twice :D)

5 Supes movies with Lex, I think that’s enough. Also people, please stop blaming Spacey for his interpretation, that’s what he was ask to do, he only did his job. I think he’s a good actor and he could have done something better if he was given something better.

And last but not least, Singer. If he doesn’t do the main writing of the script I think he can come back, but if he does I hope he reads some Action and Superman before he does it. Also he needs to forget about the other movies, that was the 70s and 80s, we’re in the 2000’s, he needs to adapt and make a more 3D character, more appealing.

That’s my opinion, a lot… (I hope someone reads it)

There were some things I liked in Returns, the airplane rescue scene was pretty phenomenal. Some minor things here and there. And I actually think Brandon Routh did a decent job as the man of steel considering the script, he was doomed from the onset.

I think a reboot is in order, ojh and to the X2 fans… you did watch the movie right? Why are we singing Bryan Singers praises for that?

cheers

I don’t want Superman’s next film to be an outright bomb following on the heels of Returns’ disappointment. A double blow like that will put Superman down for the next 20 years.