Superman Returns

Saturday, July 01, 2006

A Short Summary
Superman Returns stars Brandon Routh as Superman/Clark Kent, Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane, and Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor. Also starring in the movie are James Mardsen as Richard White (nephew of Perry White), Frank Langella as Perry White, Sam Huntington as Jimmy Olsen, and the zombie Marlon Brando as Jor-El.

The movie takes place five years after Superman II, disregarding the last two movies which were horrible in quality of story, it has Superman returning to Earth after leaving to see what's left of Krypton and trying to find if their was any survivors. When returning to work at the Daily Planet, and discovers that Lois Lane has moved on with her life and is engaged to Richard White. She also has a son by the name of Jason Lane...Supposedly Richard's son. He also discovers that Lex Luthor has been recently released from prison because Superman wasn't there to testify against him in court.

Lex Luthor arrives at the Fortress of Solitude and steals data crystals in order to make his own continent and hold the world hostage. His plans would result in the deaths of "billions" as he puts it. When he launched a crystal into the Atlantic Ocean it causes major earthquakes for Metropolis as the continent forms of the coast. Superman rushes to prevent any further damage and when done, flew to where the continent is and where Luthor is too.

Landing on the forming continent, he discovers that Luthor was able to have the crystal fused with Kryptonite and that the continent is laced with Kryptonite. His powers weakening, Luthor and his men begins to beat Superman into a bloody pulp. Then, Luthor suddenly pulls a sharp piece of Kryptonite out and stabs Superman in the back with it letting him fall a long distance into the water.

After being rescued by Lois Lane and Richard White....And the shard of Kryptonite pulled out, Superman flies up and regains his strength by absorbing the sunlight. With his powers back, he dives into the water and goes to the bottom of the continent. He then begins to lift the entire continent (which is fused with Kryptonite) into space a hurls it into space. With most of his strength sapped because of the Kryptonite, he begins to fall back to Earth, unconscious.

Later, in the hospital, he awakens and goes to the house of Lois Lane and Richard White to visit Jason. Throughout the movie we discover that Jason may be in fact Superman's son and not Richard's, the scene towards the end implies that Superman knows this too. Before flying off, Lois asks him will she see him around and with Superman replying that, "I'm always around." The End.

Though I did not include other scenes like Superman rescuing Richard, Lois, and Jason from Luthor's ship and Superman saving passengers on a plane that is about to crash that is sinking this is the basic plot of the movie. Bryan Singer did an excellent job bringing Superman back to the silver screen. Though it's not really an action film but focusing more one the relationship between Clark and Lois this movie is still excellent. The special effects that were used were astounding and his flying looks more fluid than the original Donner film, which was excellent also. This movie is great for everyone and I recommend it for anyone who would be interested in seeing it. You don't even have to like the comics or the original to like this movie.