Superman Returns (Widescreen Edition)

starring: Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, James Marsden, Parker Posey directed by: Bryan Singer See Larger Image List Price: $9.98 You Pay Only: $5.99 You Save: $3.99 (40%) Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0012569723511 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Warner Home Video Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product. Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 28, 2006 Running Time: 154 minutes Sales Rank: 2108 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: June 28, 2006 Related Items: Batman Begins (Widescreen Edition) Superman II - The Richard Donner Cut X-Men - The Last Stand (Widescreen Edition) Superman - The Movie Troy (Two-Disc Full Screen Edition) see more Editorial Review: Description: He's back. A hero for our millennium. And not a moment too soon, because during the five years (much longer in movie-fan years!) Superman sought his home planet, things changed on his adopted planet. Nations moved on without him. Lois Lane now has a son, a fiance and a Pulitzer for 'Why the World Doesn't Need Superman.' And Lex Luthor has a plan that will destroy millions - no, billions - of lives. Filmmaker Bryan Singer (X-Men) gives the world the Superman it needs, honoring the legend everyone loves while taking it in a powerful new direction. Brandon Routh proves a perfect choice to wear the hero's cape, leading a top cast that includes Kate Bosworth as Lois and Kevin Spacey as Lex. And the thrills - from a sky-grapple with a tumbling jumbo jet to a continent-convulsing showdown - redefine Wow. 'I'm always around,' Superman tells Lois. You'll be glad he is. Amazon.com: If Richard Donner's 1978 feature film Superman: The Movie made us believe a man could fly, Bryan Singer's 2006 follow-up, Superman Returns, lets us remember that a superhero movie can make our spirits soar. Superman (played by newcomer Brandon Routh) comes back to Earth after a futile five-year search for his destroyed home planet of Krypton. As alter ego Clark Kent, he's eager to return to his job at the Daily Planet and to see Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth). Lois, however, has moved on: she now has a fiancé (James Marsden), a son (Tristan Leabu), and a Pulitzer Prize for her article entitled 'Why the World Doesn't Need Superman.' On top of this emotional curveball, his old archrival Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey) is plotting the biggest land grab in history. Singer, who made a strong impression among comic-book fans for his work on the X-Men franchise and directed Spacey in The Usual Suspects, brings both a fresh eye and a sense of respect to the world's oldest superhero. He borrows John Williams's great theme music and Marlon Brando's voice as Jor-El, and the story (penned by Singer's X-Men collaborators Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris) is a sort-of-sequel to the first two films in the franchise (choosing to ignore that the third and fourth movies ever happened). The humorous and romantic elements give the movie a heart, Singer's art-deco Metropolis is often breathtaking, and the special effects are elegant and spectacular, particularly an early airplane-disaster set-piece. Of the cast, Routh is excellent as the dual Superman/Clark, Spacey is both droll and vicious as Luthor, and Parker Posey gets the best lines as Luthor's moll Kitty. But at 23, Bosworth seems too young for the five-years-past-grizzled Lois. It's nice to see Noel Neill, Jack Larson (both from the classic Adventures of Superman TV series), and Eva Marie-Saint on the screen as well. Superman Returns is one of those projects that was in development for seemingly forever, but it was worth the wait -- it's the most enjoyable superhero movie since Spider-Man 2 and The Incredibles. --David Horiuchi More Superman Watch our exclusive interviews with the cast of Superman Returns Other feature films Superman in high definition Smallville Adventures of Superman See all Superman DVDs Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Why we ALL need Superman Superman is by far my favorite superhero and best onscreen adaptation of all the comic book characters. I have been a fan of the original Superman and was quite skeptic of this movie knowing that the great Christopher Reeve will not be Superman, but the movie did justice to the originals. It is visually stunning and has everything a Superman movie should have. Brandon Routh had an eerie resemblance to Reeve which mad him totally convincing as Superman almost immediately for me. Also Lex Luthor played by Kevin Spacey was genius! This movie is definitely a great addition to the Superman legacy. Rating: - Best deal. great quality! I couldn't find this DVD in Wal-Mart (believe that?), so I went on Amazon and found it for this great price (about $6.00) BRAND NEW! It works great. I have no complaints at this time. Rating: - Hi Def???? I rated this movie 5 star... I like this movie very much. I own both version DVD and the Blu Ray version. But what dissappoint me is the picture quality of the Blu Ray version. I do comparison between both format, absolutely no difference. So for them who Superman big fan who already own the DVD version, just save your money. Absolutely no worthy to own the Bluray version. Rating: - The Title Says It All After missing from film screens for nearly twenty years and nearly twenty eight years since the first Christopher Reeve film, the question everyone was undoubtedly was if the franchise could be resurrected and as this film proves the answer is a most definite "yes" with this film which may actually be better then the 1978 film that started it all. A film is about as good as its leading actor and without the right actor playing Superman the film could easily have failed. But with newcomer Brandon Routh in the role many fears were laid to rest. Routh, like Reeve before him, slips into the role so well that within moments of his appearance as the Man of Steel he BECOMES Superman. Physically he is a perfect fit for Superman with his black hair, blue eyes, height, build and everything in between. But it just isn't the physical nature that Routh fits into the role, it's also in his acting ability. Drawing inspiration from Reeve's performances in Superman and Superman II in order to perfectly fit into the roles of both Superman and Clark Kent, Routh is successful in marinating the strong masculine side of Superman and the clumsy, almost geeky, nature of Clark Kent. In short, Routh is Superman. The rest of the cast draws no complaints either. Kate Bosworth, despite being only 23, fits into the role of Lois Lane just as well as Routh as Superman. While she does lack some of the spunk of Margot Kidder's Lois Lane, she does play the sensitive side of Lois very well and her scenes with ... Read More Rating: - Superbland This only just merits 3 stars. It really is far too long, and loses a star for that. It loses another star for the frequent and painfully obvious use of CGI and if I was being unkind it would lose more for its over sentimental and sugary styling. How much music with heavenily choirs and strings are we expected to take? I wasn't especially impressed by Brandon Routh, who was clearly copying the Christopher Reeve formula but he was wooden by comparison. The best by far was Kevin Spacey, but he wasn't given a lot to do. The films I've seen that have been directed by Bryan Singer have in general been very good, for me this is his first failure. By all means buy it, if you can get it very cheap, but its not worth spending much on! More Superman Returns (Widescreen Edition) Reviews Browse for similar items by category: Action & Adventure - Genres - DVD - Video - General Superman - Superheroes - Action & Adventure - Genres - DVD - Video - Feature Films Superman - Superheroes - Action & Adventure - Genres - DVD - Video - General AAS Superheroes - Action & Adventure - Genres - DVD - Video - General Characters & Series - Kids & Family - Genres - DVD - Video - Superman

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