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A review by k_winchester
Superman Returns by Marv Wolfman
adventurous
dark
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
I wasn't vibing with this from the start but I really lost it at "he slipped his glasses into his CAPE POCKET."
His cape pocket?!? REALLY??? 😂😂😂
Look, I liked this movie. It's not great, it's got problems, but I liked it (Brandon Routh is absolutely aces 👌). Being this was the novel of the movie, I did actually expect it would be better, and it was... definitely way worse, tbh.
It was so shallow and emotionless, or the emotions were dead flat. For some reason the story starts with Clark/Kal-El literally in his mother's womb, which was very weird and felt super out of place, and then it felt like it spends waaay too long in like, prologue mode, talking about Kal-El on his journey and remembering womb memories and memories as a baby (I guess because he's an alien he can do this? ....sure) but also not actually sharing interesting lore? Just really slow, strange, repetitive, and pretty much entirely unnecessary. Also, the general writing style was frustrating to read as it flipped around from character to character whenever it was convenient (I guess it was technically omniscient except when it wasn't in the next sentence or at random??)
Luthor came off just ranting and pointless, and considering he had so much "air time" in this book, it should've felt like his scenes meant something instead of just monologuing filler, but... It was almost like the worst parts of the movie, on the whole, got amplified while the best parts of the movie were downplayed, when of course it should've been the opposite.
Despite all this, I didn't *completely* hate it, it wasn't total trash, so hence the 2 stars from me. 😂 There *were* decent moments, decent story bits, a few things that were some nice additions to the movie, some cute Clark moments.
It was a book, I read it, it was utterly mediocre at best, and here we are. 🤷♀️
(I ended up watching the movie again after finishing reading, and ya, it's still not great, but I still like it, and it's better than the book.🤷♀️ I said what I said. 😂)
His cape pocket?!? REALLY??? 😂😂😂
Look, I liked this movie. It's not great, it's got problems, but I liked it (Brandon Routh is absolutely aces 👌). Being this was the novel of the movie, I did actually expect it would be better, and it was... definitely way worse, tbh.
It was so shallow and emotionless, or the emotions were dead flat. For some reason the story starts with Clark/Kal-El literally in his mother's womb, which was very weird and felt super out of place, and then it felt like it spends waaay too long in like, prologue mode, talking about Kal-El on his journey and remembering womb memories and memories as a baby (I guess because he's an alien he can do this? ....sure) but also not actually sharing interesting lore? Just really slow, strange, repetitive, and pretty much entirely unnecessary. Also, the general writing style was frustrating to read as it flipped around from character to character whenever it was convenient (I guess it was technically omniscient except when it wasn't in the next sentence or at random??)
Luthor came off just ranting and pointless, and considering he had so much "air time" in this book, it should've felt like his scenes meant something instead of just monologuing filler, but... It was almost like the worst parts of the movie, on the whole, got amplified while the best parts of the movie were downplayed, when of course it should've been the opposite.
Despite all this, I didn't *completely* hate it, it wasn't total trash, so hence the 2 stars from me. 😂 There *were* decent moments, decent story bits, a few things that were some nice additions to the movie, some cute Clark moments.
It was a book, I read it, it was utterly mediocre at best, and here we are. 🤷♀️
(I ended up watching the movie again after finishing reading, and ya, it's still not great, but I still like it, and it's better than the book.🤷♀️ I said what I said. 😂)