Faster Than A Speeding Bullet Review of Superman Returns

•  Brandon Routh was great as Superman/Clark Kent.

•  I didn’t care for the woman who played Lois Lane.  While I have no complaints about her quality
  of acting, I didn’t believe for a moment that her character was a journalist.  She needed to be someone a bit older looking,
  less coiffed and more world-weary looking, I think.  What’s-Her-Name from the Mummy movies would
  have been great, if she was younger.

•  I wanted to hear some of her Pulitzer Prize winning
  article “Why The World Doesn’t Need Superman”, and was disappointed that they
  didn’t give me anything from it.

•  I hated the scene in the airplane where Lois Lane was part of the gaggle of
  journalists, and the lone camera kept panning back from her (when she asked a
  question) to the person holding the press conference.  Wouldn’t the camera remain focused on latter,
  rather than pan between the two?  That
  really bugged me.

•  Kevin Spacey’s Lex Luthor was a disappointment to me.  I wanted him to be either more campy, or less
  campy.  The amount of camp he gave the performance
  was too middling and ended up being un-noteworthy. 

•  I also found his “evil scheme” to be beyond ludicrous and
  laughable.

•  Parker Posey had a great amount of camp to her character, but
  since nobody really rose their bars to her level, it seemed kind of out of
  place with it.

•  I appreciated the performance of Lois Lane’s husband.  Lots of subtle things happening there, I
  thought, and he ended up being a super kind of guy, too.

•  I didn’t appreciate the performance of the kid who played
  the son.  And I didn’t like that “surprise”
  plot-twist that I never saw coming a million miles away (all the way from
  Krypton, perhaps?)

•  I began to get really bugged when, after surviving
  catastrophe upon catastrophe, each time Lois Lane would end up back at the Daily
  Planet offices, looking refreshed and absolutely raring to go again,
  unconcerned with the psychological ramifications of the near-death experiences
  she had just gone through.  A little bit
  of realism in this respect (from all the characters) would have really helped me
  enjoy it more.

•  The plot seemed to move as slow as the rough beast that
  slouches towards Bethlehem. 

•  Far too frigging long.  And too slow-paced
  

 All that being said, I still enjoyed it okay.