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So, finally we get to see Superman again. Yes, just like the trailer,
the speed, the power, returned. I got the chance to watch the premiere
show at 1pm at the Tunjungan Plaza. Since i begin my day by working, i
didnt arive there until 1230. Dannii on
the other hand, has been there since 11 am to be among the fist to
stand in the line for the tickets. We planned to watch the premiere
together wearing the Superman shirt under our clothes. And it seems
that shes attracted some attention from one of the reporter that was
covering the premiere :-).

You can check out the report at Jawa Pos site here.

Anyway,
we are wasting our minutes waiting for the theatre door to be open by
strolling around the mall. And guess what, we found a discounted
Superman action figures ! Its not a Superman Returns action figure, but
a Warner Bros Superman. You know, the cartoon series. But what makes
this action figure so cool is that you can have him standing on your
desk, monitor, tv or whatever, or you can hang him and watch him float
around your room The only minus side is, we were panicking when we
realized it was 1pm already and we left the toy store without asking
the return money from our payment.

So, there we were, sitting
on the the theatre seat. Waiting for the man of steel. And since Dannii
has downloaded the entire album of the Superman Returns score, we were
listening to some of the tunes which just excite us even more. Before
the movie started, theres a trailer of The Ant Bully. This movie looks
promising. But finally, the one we’ve been waiting for so long arived.
Superman has returned !

Before we watched the movie, we have
learned from like everywhere, that Superman Returns storyline will
continue after the original series. 5 Years after Superman 2 to be
exact.

The movie started with a text explaining that some
astronomers has discover what was believed to be the planet krypton and
superman decided has decided to go there. The text was followed by
Marlon Brando’s voice, as Jor El, if you remember the 1st Superman
Movie, you will recognized his word. And the screen was picturing the
scene of the planet Krypton, just like in the original movies. All
crystall and stuff. Just as Jor El’s voice was fading out, the screen
zoomed out from the krypton to show the newly created explosion of the
planet. And then… the Superman theme began to fill the room !

The
opening credit was the classic opening you would remember from the
Christopher Reeve’s movies. John Williams music was still there, and
still sounds as glorious as ever. But this time the music was done by
John Ottman, or someone, i couldnt remember since i was to excited
watching the screen.

The movie would started by telling the
re-emergences of both Superman and Lex Luthor. On one of those cold
night in Smallville, Texas, while Ma Kent was washing her dishes,
something fell out from the sky. It turns out to be Superman’s space
ship, and she helped out here limping and tiring son back into her
house. Meanwhile, Lex Luthor has gone out from prison and has tricked
out a rich and dying - pomeranian lover - old woman into giving all her
will into Lex Luthor.

The following morning, Clark Kent woke
up in his old room. And when he goes down to the kitchen, Ma Kent burst
into tears, saying how she misses him and how she think she would never
seen him again. Clark then explained that he has to go to Krypton to
see with his own eyes. And all he found was just a graveyard. And then
he goes emo by saying how he feels lonely in this world and so on. Ma
Kent then tries to cheer him up, by saying this is a big universe.

Back
to Lex Luthor, he finally got what he want. All the rich woman’s asset
are now in his hand. And hes back to his old self now, walking around
strotting his stuff. And the first thing he do is setting up an
expedition team into the north pole !

Unknowingly to Luthor’s
plan, A still emo Clar Kent is standing in his old man’s farm. Recally
the early days when he discovered his super power. When he ran and jump
all over the corn field (you might recall some of the shot from the
original movies, but the scenes were retaken with new actor), or the
first time he float This is a very touching moment for me, i almost
cried :p And that Superman soundtrack really builds up the mood.

On
a high tech cruise boat, with a mission to the north pole, Lex Luthor
is busy having a philosophycal discussion with his new … err.. side
kick (?), Kitty - Catherine - Something, couldnt remember. There we
learnt that while in prison, Lex Luthor has been busy socializing and
recruiting (yet amazingly another stupid goons for the evil genius).
Lex Luthor guided his bunch of misfits into the north pole to find
Superman’s home. If you remember the 2nd movie, you will know that
Luthor has been there and knew something about the crystal mechanism.
After he watched some of the content of the crystal (hey, its Marlon
Brando again ! as Jor El), he stole Superman’s crystal and goes back to
Metropolis.

But Lex Luthor isnt the only one heading back to
Metropolis. Clark Kent is back ! bumbling his way into the office of
Daily Planet. He was greeted with an excited Jimmy Olsen who gave him a
welcome back cake, with a slice missing But everyone at the Daily
Office is busy that day, and Clark learned from the television that
Lois Lane is duing her reporting duty on a first planned commercial
space flight for public (still annoying as ever). Clark Kent also
learnt something else, Lois Lane has won the Pullitzer Award for
writing "Why The World Doesnt Need Superman", and she is now engaged to
some guy (Perry White’s nephew) and have a son.

Lex Luthor has
now returned to his new inherited mansion, when he left there was two
pomeranians, but now only one. And that one is busy chewing on a bone
with fur all over him. Creepy. Lex Luthor has planned to use the stolen
kryptonian crystal to build himself a new island, krypton style.
Remember, Lex Luthor knew how the crystal works. In the mansion, he led
his team to a playing room, with minature trains and stuff and theres a
pool of water in the middle of it. He then cut the crystal to a tiny
peace, not bigger than your nail, and have one of his helper to put the
crystal on the water. Just like in Superman 1, when Superman build his
home at the north pole he just threw his crystal to the water, a mound
of rock kryptonite style rises from the pool. But not beforehand
releasing a huge emp shockwave. Causing blackout all over the city.

Back
in town, a depressed Clark Kent sits in a bar with Jimmy Olsen trying
to catch up whats been happening while hes gone. Suddenly, the tv was
airing a flashnews that theres been an accident on the air. Apparently,
Lois Lane’s plane catched the emp shockwave, causing malfunction to the
system. And before Jimmy Olsen can talk back to Clark about that, Clark
Kent is dashing out the street, to a small and quiet alley, opening his
shirt revealing a Superman costume underneath !

Panic in the sky
! Lois Lane is still the most annoying woman who tries to do a little
bit too much. She tries to helped the PR lady whos been hurt and then
also got herself hurt in the process. But then, something caught her
eyes. Its that familiar blue and red dashing trough in the air.

Superman
rescues everyone in his usual spectacular fashion. Remember, Superman
is the boyscout of the super heroes. So after he catches the plane and
put it in the middle of the ball park. He do his PR work, asking if
everybodys allright, and then saying that they shouldnt be afraid of
flying again because of the safety statistics and bla bla bla. Damn,
Brandon Routh reminds me of Christopher Reeves when he spoke that line. Yes, there are so many reference to the original movies, and i must
highlight the word "original movies", because the comic fans are going
to be nuts over what happened next. After making sure everyone is
allright, and a polite "Are you allright" hello to Lois Lane, he left
by dashing to the sky. If you followed the comic universe, you will
know that an older Superman in Alex Ross comic, just float around with
pride, seldom walking. And you will find lots of that kind of movement
here. And that is way too cool.

Later that day, back in the
Daily Planet, Perry White instructed everyone to get the scoop on
Superman. A reluctant Lois Lane chooses to pursue the story about the
blackout. And Lois still cant spell ! (A continuation from the original
movies). Clark met Lois’s son (Jason) for the first time, and her
fiancee. Richard White. Richard then returns to his office with his son
(Richard worked as an international news editor at the Daily Planet).
Clark then walked Lois Lane to catch a taxi. And then suddenly Lois
Lane goes emo to Clark, talking about destiny, faith, meant to be and
dissapearing without saying good bye. Clark tries to rationed Lois, by
telling her maybe it was hard to say goodbye. And just when Lois about
to goes emo again, Clark bumbled "Who are we talking here again ?".
After that, Clark help Lois stopped a taxi using his ultrasonic
whistle, which also annoyed dogs and cats nearby.

Clark followed
Lois Lane back into his house from the air, as Superman, using his
super vision and super hearing, he learnt that Lois Son is fragile and
somehow Richard is still not convinced that Lois is done with Superman.
He suspect that the reason that Lois didnt want to write about Superman
is because she still has feeling about him. Lois then convinced Richard
the she didnt love Superman. Superman left, flying to the air, getting
emo, remembering all Jor El’s word about being the role model for the
earth people. And his super hearing is catching lots of voice calling
for help.

Back in Metropolis, a robber is using a high tech
gatling gun to terrorized the police. Superman come to the rescue. Here
he demonstrate why he got the nickname man of steel. Bullets cant hurt
him. And he spectacularly catch a bullet in the eye without blinking.
Soon, Superman got busy. Helping people around the globe. The media was
going frenzy about Superman returns.

Back in Luthor’s mansion,
Lex Luthor learnt that Superman has returned from the news paper. The
same news paper also reported that a meteorite exhibition is being held
at the local museum. Lex Luthor knew that he has to be ready to face
his old nemesis again. Lex uses Kitty as a decoy while he stole a
Kryptonite from the museum. Kitty is screaming in her car, on a full
spead, with a loose brake, in a saturated area. People were screaming
for cover. Then Superman save Kitty from ramming over innocent
bystander. Kitty asked to be taken to the hospital, buying some time
for Lex. While Superman carries Kitty in his arm, a boy is taking a
picture of them using his Samsung mobile phone.

The next day,
Perry is having a staff meeting. He was furious with Jimmy Olsen. He
was pointing to a good close up picture taken by the boy last night and
complaining to Jimmy Olsen. Jimmy showed Perry his picture of Superman.
A tiny red dot in the sky. A very funny lines here.
Jimmy : Look !
Perry : Its a Bird !
Lois : Its a Plane !
Jimmy : (angry), No, Its Sup….
Clark
entered the room. And Perry decided that Clark should go hunting for
the news of the black out and Lois should write about Superman.

After
they goes out from Perry’s room. Lois have a chat with Richard. Richard
asked her about Superman’s statistic, and of course Lois knew them
without having to take a peek to her notes. And then Richard asked her
about Clark’s height and weight. Using his super hearing Clark can hear
what Lois and Richard were talking around, and he goofed around, act
foolishly, and yes. In this world, he can fool people by using glasses
and act a goof. Richard then wants to eat burito for lunch with Jason,
Jimmy followed. Clark bumped into Lois and make a mess of everything.
When Clark tries to help Lois, his glasses fall off, and he pauses for
a moment to see if Lois pays any attention, but Lois was as annoying as
ever, babling around, completely ignoring Clark. Then Lois goes to the
Balcony to smoke.

But just as she tries to lid her cig, a gush
of wind just blew of her fire. Superman says "Smoking is bad for your
health". Yep, our boyscout superhero is here to do an interview. And
just like a good boyscout, he reminds Lois that smoking is bad for her
health. And then they are both goes emo and Superman take Lois for a
quick flight around. Up under the clouds, he asked her why did she
wrote the pullitzer winning article, when all he hears from up hear is
a cry for help. He flew her back into the Daily Planet, a scene which
is very reminiscent to the flying scene of Christopher Reeves and
Margot Kidder. But the special f/x was way much better this time
around. When they arived on the balcony, they get emo again and almost
went lips to lips. But Lois backed down, by saying Richard is a good
guy.

Lois delivered her interview article to Perry. The article
was titled Superman Returns. Meanwhile, Superman goes back to the north
pole to find that his crystals were missing. And boy did he look angry.

At Lex Luthor’s hideout, he was supervising a shaping of the Kryptonite into a tube.

After
the Superman Returns article, Lois goes back to to write about the
black out. She founds out that the black out originated from one point.
As she dugg deep into her research, she remembered that she forgot to
pick up Jason from school. And after she picked up Jason, she takes him
to look around… err.. investigate the place that she suspect
originated the emp shockwave. And again, she completely ignore a phone
call from her office and from Richard, probably because she feels
guilty for picking up her son late, or still doing the black out story,
or just plain ruthless reporter Lois Lane in action

Anyway,
her investigation led her to a yacht, which she tresspassed..err…
entered, and found a room full of wigs. Suddenly her brain started to
kick off, and just realize that she bring her son into all of this.
Trying to escape the now moving yacht, she ran into a surprised Lex
Luthor.

Back in the office, everyone was worried about Lois
Lane. Perry asked Clark (who probably just returned from the north
pole), to help Richard search for Lois.

At the yacht, like all
evil genius do, Lex Luthor tells all to Lois Lane. Giving her an
exclusive interview of all his plans. He planned to build himself an
intstant island from the crystal, completely aware that buy raising an
island would risked a global disaster, apart from the emp shockwave,
lands will collapse and so on. And if you remember the 1st movie, Lex
Luthor quote something from his father. And yes, Lex Luthor’s passion
is all about property. *duh!*

When Lois Lane mentioned about
Superman, the previously happy tell all Luthor goes angry and showed
her the Kryptonyte tube. Suddently his eye caught something. He
questioned the father of Jason. He even dangled the kriptonyte in front
of Jason to see if there was any reaction to it. But he didnt found
anything and left them with his thug. Luthor goes to prepare his next
big thing.

Luthor put the crystal inside the Kryptonite tube,
and as the crystal absorbed the kryptonite, merging into one. He then
fires them into the ocean.

Meanwhile, Lois tries to call for
help. She tries to fax her message to the daily planet while her sone
is busying the thug by playing piano. She managed to send half of her
message when the massive chain reaction at the bottom of the ocean
starting to grow. A huge emp shocwave was released, causing the
electronic system at yacht to malfunction. And the emp shocwave reached
the city of metropolis too. Not only there was a black out, but the
ground was shaking due to the huge movement at the bottom of the ocean.

Back at the yacht. The thug founds out what Lois was trying to
do and knocked her around. The frightened Jason seems to breath
rapidly. And then, suddenly, a piano flung and killed the thugs. You
guessed it, Jason is Superman child, but fortunately there wasnt any
scene in the movie of him doing anything super

At the daily
planet, after the the electricity kicked back in, Jimmy found the half
received sos message from Lois Lane. Containing the coordinates for her
position. How did she knew all this, did she has gps ? Clark and
Richard both rushed with their own ways.

On his way to the
ocean, Superman’s X-Ray Vision spotted a huge crack in the ocean moving
toward the city. He has choices to made and He decided to goes back to
the city. Meanwhile, Lois and Jason were being kept at the kitchen by
other thugs. And when they reported that a piano has just killed their
friend, when Lex learnt about this… he asked, wheres the boy ? …its
time to leave the boat.

Back in the Metropolis. A huge earth
quake really rocked the city. But thankfully Superman arrived just in
time to save the day. He catches people in the air, blow away fires,
catches the giant globe of daily planet, and uses his heat vision to
clear out debrises in the sky.

Meanwhile, a huge uncomfortable
rock begin to rise from the ocean, splitting the boat into two. Ricard
arrived with his plane, but also got trapped inside the kitchen
instead. Superman arrives and saves the day. After helping Richard flew
his planet out of the danger zone, he goes chasing Lex Luthor into his
new crystal island. But Lex Luthor has designed his crystal island to
be a Superman free zone by merging the crystal with kryptonite. And
just like that, after trading a few insults, Lex Luthor sees a cold
sweat began to drip from Superman’s forehead. And he shoves the man of
steel into the ground.

At the airplane, Lois began to gain her conciousness, and when she
learnt that Superman went after Lex Luthor alone, she beggedd Richard
to turn around and help Superman. Yes, this time, superman needs the
help of his friends.

At the island, a weakened Superman is getting bullied by Lex Luthor and
his goons. He was cornered. And Lex stabbed him with a kryptonite and
pushes him to fall from the cliffs into the ocean.

Lois, Richard and Jason arived just in time to save Superman. After
Lois throw away the kryptonite, Superman goes back to the Crystal
Island. But not until he fly up above the cloud facing the sun and do a
beauty shot. I really think Brian Singer has too much of Brandon
Rooth’s doing a beauty pose infront of the camera, but thats ok i
guess, since he did it really good Comic book fans would probably
theorizing about Superman recharging his power from the yellow sun.

Anyway, after that beauty shot, Superman went down under. I mean really
down under. He flies and uses his heat vision to dug into the bottom of
the ocean. And here we got to see Superman lifting an island. But not
just an island, but a Kryptonite plagued Island. How weird is that,
Superman is getting up close and personal with a big chunk of
Kryptonite ? Anyway, Lex Luthor tries to run away from Crystal Island
using his helicopters, his thugs are getting crushed by a very
uncomfortable black and jagged giant crystal rocks, and Kitty suddenly
has a moral dilemma. She threw away the remaining crystal out of the
helicopters, and heres a shocker. Lex didnt kill her ! He just simply
looks annoyed, and continues his flight ! Is this Lex a good guy or
what ?

Anyway, Superman managed to lift the crystal island and threw it away
into the space. But he is weakened by the kryptonite and as his power
is drained, he falls back into the earth creating a massive impact in
the heart of metropolis.

It is a sad day in metropolis, everyone gathers around the hospital as
earth best medicine men tries to revive a comatose Superman. But how do
you put an earthy needle into the arm of the man of steel ?
So to put the story cut short, back at the Daily Planet, Perry White
prepare two headlines for the next edition of Daily Planet. Superman
Dies and Superman Lives.

Richard urged Lois to go to the hospital, and he drove her there. Lois
and Jason went to see Superman in the hospital room. Hey, its Superman
in a gown A crying Lois whispered something into Superman, and
before they left, they both kisses Superman.

Another place, Lex and Kitty were stranded on some lost island because
their helicopter ran out of gas. And he just gruntled around but never
threaten Kitty. A gentle Lex Luthor ?

Later that day, the nurses found out that Superman is gone. The bed was
empty. Probably Superman didnt have a health insurance But where did
Superman go ? He went into Lois’s house, and he just stood there.
Infront of Jason’s bed. Jason was sleeping. And Superman was looking at
him, gently. And he said to him the exact words of Jor El. The father
become the son, and the son become the father. Its a touching moment. I
know its kinda ridiculous to think that Superman might actually have a
child, but if you followed the 2nd movie, somehow it all makes sense.

Outside, Lois was looking nervous and sad. She just hold her cig in her
hand without actually tryling to lit it. Then she heard Jason shouting
goodbye ! There he was, Superman, floating around so gracefully. She
asked him "Will we ever see you around". Superman replied "Im always
around".
And he flies into the sky, doing one more beauty shot, and the movie
ended with another glorious Superman Theme filling the room.

Thats it. The end.
What ? no closure ? what about Lex ? yeah… what about him ?
Why Brian Singer didnt spend extra 2 minutes of a scene of Superman
picking Lex Luthor and dropping him into the jail is beyond me. But
believe me, this movie is a long movie and yet it didnt feel that long.

Got a mixed reaction for this movie. I love to see Superman again on
the big screen. The big red S. John William’s theme. Its been so long.
And Christopher Reeves must be proud if he was watching this.

But there are some minor that i didnt connect with me.
How come a young (15 years old was stated in the credit) Clark Kent was already wearing glasses ?
At first i really hate the Superman Child thing. But after having a
lenghty discussion with Danni, and a reminder from her about Superman
2. I guess i can take the Superman Child storyline. Its something new.
And yes, its Surprising, but again, its believable if you followed the
2nd movie and NOT the comic lines.

And then there was Lex. Kevin Spacey did a good job. But somehow this
Lex seems, more gentle ? And he didnt have another backup plan, or some
ultra weapon or something. He kept talking about alien tech weapon, but
where is it ?

Kate Bosworth looks charming as Lois Lane. And altough she tends to
look too young, but shes ok to me. The Weird thing is, Somehow, Posey
Parker (Kitty Kapowski) really loos like the late Margot Kidder

And Brandon Routh. The face is too young, but his voice is what his
performance really all about. He has a good voice, kinda like the
Christopher Reeve’s voice. A Superman-esque voice ? dont know. Face
like a superboy, voice like a superman, all in all its a good
performance of him. He need to do something about his thigh tough,
altough he is a tall man, sometime his thigh made him looks shorter.

All in all, i love this movie, and im curious about the next superman movie.

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