My husband wanted me to watch this movie because I have been really getting into Marvel comic book movies but haven't enjoyed DC as much. He thought this would be perfect because it makes fun of the exact aspect of Superman that I always hate, namely that he is so over powered it becomes laughable. This movie plays off of that by having every stupidly super powered thing that happens to him over a few years of comics happen all at once in about 2 hours. My husband also thought I needed a better appreciation for Lex Luthor in order to understand comic books.
This movie follows the last days of Superman as he dies following too much solar radiation. He gives Lois Lane super powers for 24 hours, and then Lex Luthor gets arrested, escapes from prison by taking the same serum that made Lois Lane into Super Woman, has an epiphany thanks to seeing the world as Superman does, and on death row, comes to terms with Superman. Superman, meanwhile, becomes converted into pure energy at exactly the same time as the sun is dying and needs to be relit, so he goes on to become the sun.
While I understand that the movie was kind of making fun of this phenomenon, all it really did was annoy me because all of the things that happened in this movie did happen in the comics at one time or another. It just highlighted how overpowered Superman is, and how much I don't like him.
Maybe you needed more background information to appreciate it. I know that the opening scene would have confused me completely if I hadn't seen the newest Superman movie in the theaters. It provided no information and just expected you to understand what they were talking about with vague scenes related to the death of Krypton. Then, he tells Lois Lane that he's Superman, and she doesn't believe him. I guess there's background here, because it's vaguely referenced, but it just seemed random.
This movie is really for the fans. It's not meant to bring anyone else into the Superman fandom. It expects you to know Superman. Since I don't know Superman, it left me frustrated, and feeling like it was just a movie about an overpowered super hero I couldn't relate to.
Overall, I give it a B-.
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