Superman Returns (2006)
#25 in my 2007 movie challenge was Superman Returns, a good movie for geeks. The reviews when it came out were mixed, plus it clocked in at two and a half hours, so I skipped in in the theater. I’m very glad I watched it, though. Singer pulled off a very tricky thing. He made Superman Returns both an homage to, as well as a continuation of, Richard Donner’s Superman, The Movie. Brandon Routh does a credible job as Superman, and evokes Christopher Reeve so strongly that it was almost eerie. His fake blue contacts over his brown eyes (a look I find distracting) bothered me throughout the movie. Kate Bosworth did a decent job as Lois Lane, and was certainly attractive, but she has become a character for our time, trying to juggle motherhood and a high-powered career. It’s a striking difference from Margot Kidder’s ERA-era feminist Lois Lane.