10 Thoughts on Superman Returns (Spoilers)

Caught it tonight at GB3 w/ Goldy and DJ (after dinner at Fish & Co.) Even ran into Boit, Dionne and her cousins (while solving my SM Mall of Asia Identity Crisis at the same time.*)

• Pointless scene: Clark as a kid running and leaping through the fields. Didn't exactly push the story foward. This scene I would've cut instead of the Superman-returning-to-Krypton scene (so does that mean Krypton is at least 2.5 light years away from Earth?), w/c director Bryan Singer did because, at 2.5 hours, this movie was long enough. Didn't feel like 2.5 hours, though.
  
• Christ-like symbolisms were so "subtle" they might as well have entitled it The Passion of the Clark.
• Smarter dialogue than most superhero flicks (i.e. no lines made me want to cringe like the some of the dialouge in Spider-Man 2). Not-so-smart script, but it's almost expected that the "blockbusteryness" of a film is inversely proportional to the cleverness of the script.
• As a comic reader, it's nice to see a somewhat more "real world physics" depiction of trying to rescue a commerical plane falling at really fast speeds. Y'see, in comics all Supes woulda done is fly underneath the plane, guide it under his own flying powers then gently lower it wherever (see Man of Steel #1), all neat and tidy.
• Brandon Routh's Clark Kent/ Superman is Brandon Routh's. Any similarites to Christopher Reeves' depiction is probably Singer's doing, as he was trying to build continuity w/ the first 2 Superman films. As an aside, that meant the Daily Planet office had to update from typewriters to computers in a span of 5 years.
• Cast was okay, even the kid who played Superasthmatic Jason, who didn't deliver his lines w/ the annoying shrilly voice of the brat who played Anakin Skywalker in The Phantom Menace. They didn't explain Lex Luthor's Captain Kirk-style boots, though.
  
• Unintentionally funny scene: creepy string music played while we see fast cuts of Luthor's many wigs resting on their headbusts.
• Mebbe I missed something, but: Lois was assigned the Superman story, while her story on the blackouts was given to Clark. Yet later Lois is seen doing all the work on the blackouts! Clark, ya lazy bastard. Also: Lex wanted to make his own land while destroying most of North America (why he couldn't do this in the Atlantic Ocean where there's PLENTY of space, I dunno), and he said he's protected from global retaliation by Kryptonian technology. Uh, what protection? Okay, the place was loaded w/ Kryptonite, w/c (at first) protected him from Supes, but then what? No anti aircraft missles, no force fields, no giant robots. NOTHING to protect Lex from being nuked. Hell, all he had was bumpy real estate, a helicopter and HENCHMEN PLAYING CARDS.
• At least the scene of Superman separating the "Dark Fortress of Solitude" from the Earth and lifting it to outer space made more sense as a "Superman Moment" than having him fly really fast in the opposite direction of Earth's rotation and turning back time.
• Better than X3, happier ending than X2, and would probably make for better DVD viewing than Batman Returns.

*As it turns out the girl managing the G-Wrap booth is Dionne's cousin Jennilyn(?), from batch '99 of SJCS.