Should We Write A Superman Review?

They had us from the second the film started, from the moment Marlon Brando eerily spoke to us once more...

you will travel far my little kal-el
but we will never leave you
even in the face of our death
you will make my strength your own
you will see my life through your eyes
as your life will be seen through mine
the son becomes the father
and the father the son

The camera slowly pans back from the all too familiar planet Krypton with its accompanying theme and we see a clearer destruction of the planet. We can't wait to get 5.1 on this baby, in fact this may finally be the film that makes Wratty go Hi Def.

Even the DC logo at the beginning bloody rocks! The film is all we could ever have asked for, but we are biased - Bryan Singer has us by the balls on this one. It has so many memories for everyone that is so fond of the Donner original, the score, the art direction, the opening credits, the dialog, and the small homages to it. We giggled like fools when we saw the empty cabinet that Lex stole the Kryptonite from had "Addis Ababa" written on it. We could hear Otis somewhere saying "it looks like a Burnoose".

This is what some may find annoying, that Singer has tapped into our memories and is simply riding the waves of Donner. We disagree, we want to feel the same we do about the previous films, we want to link them up, we don't want a reboot. This is what we wanted. This Superman gives us the same degree of love and emotion that the previous gave, and everything has been treated with the upmost respect. We've never felt this level of emotion in a film before, as the attendees will know that went with Wratty that day.

Lex is much more of a bastard in this film, Spacey has simply expanded upon Gene Hackman's character - you still have the camp and there are less wigs. But he's been hardened now, and he's determined, but he still has his blind arrogance. The rest of the cast are great, we had our doubts about Kate Bosworth but we truly believed she was Lois Lane, we never thought twice about her.

But what about Brandon? Millions screamed out when Singer went for an unknown, but we just kept cautiously quiet... This was the man who found our Wolverine remember. Routh is fantastic, he has taken the cape and flown sky high here. He plays a wonderful Kent and he plays a heroic Superman.

We have so many favourite scenes we can't wait to watch again, like where he floats above earth just listening, where he flies off with lois like he did in the first movie, his standing applause in the baseball stadium, EVERYTHING! Even the way the film ends the way it begins, with Routh echoing Brando's speech.

We understand the problem with Superman having a son because of the way the younger superheroes have been treated in the past, and generally kids in films like this. However, its nice to have such a big risk like that being taken, we can't wait to see what happens in the next film. We imagine Superman will have issues not being able to see his son as much as he wants, and of course Richard White finding out that he really isn't the father.

There's so much possibility now that Singer has opened up to explore, we just hope someone else doesn't get their hands on this film. It would be great to see if the original plan of one day leading to a Batman VS Superman film will pan out, we were reminded of this when we heard the name "Gotham" over the news broadcast in the Daily Planet. Christian Bale VS Brandon Routh? DO IT.

Scouring the forums we can't help but notice people still criticising the film for the use of Parker Posey, or the storyline being rubbish, and so on. All we can say is that you've got it now, Posey provides a strange and great female sidekick for Lex in the same way Teschmacher did. The storyline isn't at all bad, and I can imagine someday we'll see it as a great bridge between the Reeve's films and the next set we hope to get from Singer in the next few years. Singer's already mentioned some ideas for the next films at comicon, with talks of Braniac and what could happen to the growing Kryptonian island that Superman pushed out into space that is still housing all of Supes' crystals.

If you can get to one of the few IMAX 3D cinemas in the UK, go now. Run and see it. It is amazing what they've done here with the selected scenes - seeing young clark learn his abilities or watching the plane soar down from the sky is inexplicable. Its worth the money, just go and do it! We were actually shocked to find out that some of the scenes we thought were Routh as Superman were actually CG, like when he pushes the spaceship out into space.

Thankyou to everyone who had anything to do with the making of this film. We can't wait for the many DVD's you will throw at us, and whatever method you decide to use to show us the return to krypton scenes.