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After a series of unsuccessful projects to resurrect Superman on the screen, Warner Bros. hired Bryan Singer to direct and develop Superman Returns in July 2004. The majority of Principal photography took place at Fox Studios Australia, Sydney, while the visual effects sequences were created by a number of studios, including Sony Pictures Imageworks, Rhythm & Hues, Framestore, Rising Sun Pictures, and The Orphanage; filming ended in November 2005. This movie can be summed up in one word, STALKER! I won't bore you with the details of the film. I'll give you a sense of it's truthiness. Superman is back, after 5 years of building vital interstellar trade agreements with one planet after the other, Superman finally returns to earth. After vanquishing the enemies of America in parallel universes, on other Anti American plains of existance, and on evil, freedom hating planets all over the universe, Superman comes home. On his return he finds that he is now only allowed to fight for truth, justice, and all that other stuff. This is unacceptable! Everyone knows that Superman fights for the American Way. Not the United Way people. The American one! And let me tell you, Superman is not happy about it. He has to work for the Daily Planet. Ever As a kid it was most easy to love 'Superman'. He was the perfect superhero, a perfect role-model for any kid mired in comicbook pop mythology- faster than a speeding bullet, stronger than a locomotive, he could soar into the skies, had x-ray vision, heat rays, cold breath, never told lies, was essentially a good guy who prefered his villians incarcerated when he should have clearly broken thier necks and as a sign of absolute irrevernce wore his underwear inside out. Okay, okay.. so did Batman, Phantom et al. But nothing clashes like red and blue. James Marsden is in at least one fantastic movie this summer and it's not X-MEN! The return of the Superman franchise, now in the hands of original X-MEN director Bryan Singer, is a welcome one. And Kevin Spacey as Luthor? Perfect! As the film begins, we learn that Superman (Brandon Routh) has been missing for five years, having traveled to where astronomers believed they had discovered the remains of Krypton. Thereafter Superman returns to Earth, crashing back into his adoptive mother's corn field in a craft like the one that delivered him to Earth when he was a baby. He returns to the The Daily Planet and his life as Clark Kent in Metropolis. There, he learns that Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth) has won the Pulitzer Prize for her article Why the World Doesn't Need Superman. Superman Returns is a 2006 American superhero film directed and produced by Bryan Singer. Based on the DC Comics character Superman, the film serves as a homage sequel to the motion pictures Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980). It stars Brandon Routh as Superman, as well as Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, James Marsden, Frank Langella, and Parker Posey. Superman Returns is an American animated television series based off of Superman. It premiered on Cartoon Network in September 2015. The series will end in March 2016 according to the creator. Superman Returns is a 2006 American superhero movie and a sequel to the 2003 DC Comics reboot Superman Rises directed by Bryan Singer and starring Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth and Kevin Spacey. Filming began in February 2005, and the movie was released in the United States on June 28, 2006 after sixteen months of filming and production. It was the first theatrical Superman film since 1987's Superman IV: The Quest For Peace. The film received mostly positive critical reviews and grossed over $391 million worldwide. Write the first section of your page here. Superman has been missing for several years, having traveled to where astronomers believed they had discovered the remains of Krypton. During his absence, Lex Luthor was released from prison and married a rich widow to obtain her fortune upon her death. Superman returns to Earth and, as Clark Kent, resumes his job at the Daily Planet in Metropolis, and learns that Lois Lane has won the Pulitzer Prize for her article “Why the World Doesn't Need Superman”. Meanwhile, Luthor travels to the Fortress of Solitude and steals Kryptonian crystals. During an experiment with the crystals, Lex causes a worldwide power outage. The power loss interferes with the flight test of a space shuttle attached to a Boeing 777, occupied by Lois Lane who is covering the story. Clark flies into action as Superman a Superman Returns is a semi-reboot of the Superman series. It takes the place of Superman III and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. The film uses Superman: The Movie and Superman II as a vague backstory. In the film, Superman has returned after being gone for five years, and tries to restore his relationship with Lois Lane and stop Lex Luthor from destroying America with The Fortress of Solitude's Crystals.

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Superman Returns is an American animated television series based off of Superman. It premiered on Cartoon Network in September 2015. The series will end in March 2016 according to the creator. As the film begins, we learn that Superman (Brandon Routh) has been missing for five years, having traveled to where astronomers believed they had discovered the remains of Krypton. Thereafter Superman returns to Earth, crashing back into his adoptive mother's corn field in a craft like the one that delivered him to Earth when he was a baby. He returns to the The Daily Planet and his life as Clark Kent in Metropolis. There, he learns that Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth) has won the Pulitzer Prize for her article Why the World Doesn't Need Superman. During Superman's absence, Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey) has been released from prison. Upon his release, Lex marries a rich widow and obtains her fortune upon her death. Lex then travels to the Fortress of Solitude, steals Kryptonian crystals, and returns to Metropolis to experiment with a tiny fragment. The growing crystal causes a blackout by an electromagnetic pulse, interfering with the test flight of a new space shuttle tethered to a Boeing 777—occupied by Lois Lane who is covering the story. Clark flies into action as Superman and stops the plane from crashing onto a baseball field. The world rejoices in Superman's return, but Lois is more concerned with the blackout. Clark later meets her fiancé Richard White (James Marsden), nephew of Daily Planet editor-in-chief Perry White, and their son, Jason. Clark is emotionally hurt when he overhears a conversation between Lois and Richard in which she says she never loved Superman. He therefore buries himself in his work, proceeding to halt a bank heist and saving Kitty (Parker Posey), Luthor's co-conspirator. While Kitty distracts Superman, Luthor steals Kryptonite from the Metropolis Museum of Natural History. Perry assigns Lois to interview Superman while Clark investigates the blackout. That night, Superman arrives at The Daily Planet and takes Lois for a flight, during which he apologizes for leaving her. After this interview, Lois focuses her attention on the blackout again and ascertains its origin. She and Jason steal onto Luthor's ship, not realizing who owns it, and are captured. Luthor reveals to them his grand scheme of using one of the stolen Kryptonian crystals to grow a new continental landmass in the Northern Atlantic Ocean that will destroy much of Earth's existing continents, in the process killing billions of people and leaving him as the new landmass' owner. On observing the effect of a Kryptonite sample on Jason, Luthor asks who Jason's father really is; after Lois asserts that the father is Richard, he leaves to launch the crystal (now encased in green Kryptonite) into the sea. Under water, the crystal begins to create Luthor's new landmass. Lois faxes their co-ordinates to The Daily Planet and is attacked by a henchman. The henchman is hit by a piano, which seems to have been pushed at him by Jason; afterward, Lois and Jason are imprisoned in a galley. Luthor flies in his helicopter to the still forming continent. Meanwhile, Superman is attempting to minimize the destruction in Metropolis caused by the new landmass' growth when Richard arrives in a sea plane to rescue Lois and Jason. Superman soon arrives to help and then flies off to find Luthor. Meeting Luthor, Superman discovers the landmass is filled with Kryptonite, which weakens him to the point that Luthor and his henchmen are able to beat him. Superman is stabbed by Luthor with a shard of Kryptonite and falls into the Ocean. Lois makes Richard turn back to rescue Superman, whereupon she removes the Kryptonite from his back. Superman, after regaining his strength from the sun, lifts the landmass by putting layers of earth between him and the Kryptonite. Luthor and Kitty escape in their helicopter; Kitty, unwilling to let billions of people die, tosses away the crystals that Lex stole from the Fortress of Solitude. She and Luthor are stranded on a desert island when their helicopter runs out of fuel. Superman pushes the landmass into space, but is weakened by the Kryptonite present and crashes back to Earth. Doctors remove more Kryptonite from Superman's wound, but after it is removed they cannot penetrate his skin with their surgical tools. While Superman remains in a coma, Lois and Jason visit him at the hospital where Lois whispers a secret into Superman's ear. Superman later awakens and flies to see Jason, reciting Jor-El's last speech to Jason as he sleeps. Lois starts writing another article, titled “Why the World Needs Superman". Superman reassures her that he is now back to stay, and flies off to low orbit, where he gazes down at the world. Superman Returns is a 2006 American superhero film directed and produced by Bryan Singer. Based on the DC Comics character Superman, the film serves as a homage sequel to the motion pictures Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980). It stars Brandon Routh as Superman, as well as Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, James Marsden, Frank Langella, and Parker Posey. James Marsden is in at least one fantastic movie this summer and it's not X-MEN! The return of the Superman franchise, now in the hands of original X-MEN director Bryan Singer, is a welcome one. And Kevin Spacey as Luthor? Perfect! After a series of unsuccessful projects to resurrect Superman on the screen, Warner Bros. hired Bryan Singer to direct and develop Superman Returns in July 2004. The majority of Principal photography took place at Fox Studios Australia, Sydney, while the visual effects sequences were created by a number of studios, including Sony Pictures Imageworks, Rhythm & Hues, Framestore, Rising Sun Pictures, and The Orphanage; filming ended in November 2005. Superman Returns was released to positive reviews, being praised for the story, visual effects and style; it received many award nominations, but Warner Bros. was disappointed with the $391 million worldwide box office return, receiving mixed reaction with the replacement of Christopher Reeve. A sequel was planned for a summer 2009 release, but the project was later canceled. The Superman film series was rebooted in 2013 with the film Man of Steel (directed by Zack Snyder), starring Henry Cavill as Superman. Superman has been missing for several years, having traveled to where astronomers believed they had discovered the remains of Krypton. During his absence, Lex Luthor was released from prison and married a rich widow to obtain her fortune upon her death. Superman returns to Earth and, as Clark Kent, resumes his job at the Daily Planet in Metropolis, and learns that Lois Lane has won the Pulitzer Prize for her article “Why the World Doesn't Need Superman”. Meanwhile, Luthor travels to the Fortress of Solitude and steals Kryptonian crystals. During an experiment with the crystals, Lex causes a worldwide power outage. The power loss interferes with the flight test of a space shuttle attached to a Boeing 777, occupied by Lois Lane who is covering the story. Clark flies into action as Superman and stops the plane from crashing onto a baseball stadium, which is full of spectators. The world rejoices at Superman's return, but Lois is more concerned with the blackout. Clark later meets her fiance Richard White, nephew of Daily Planet editor-in-chief Perry White, and their son, Jason. Clark is emotionally hurt when he overhears a conversation between Lois and Richard in which she says she never loved Superman. He then stops a bank heist, and saves Kitty Kowalski, Luthor's co-conspirator. With Superman distracted, Luthor steals Kryptonite from the Metropolis Museum of Natural History. Perry assigns Lois to interview Superman while Clark investigates the blackout. That night, Superman arrives at the Daily Planet and takes Lois for a flight, during which he apologizes for leaving her and tells her that, because of his superhuman hearing, he knows the world needs his protection. Lois focuses her attention on the blackout again and ascertains its origin. Lois and Jason inadvertently board Luthor's ship and are captured. Luthor reveals to them his grand scheme of using one of the stolen Kryptonian crystals to grow a new continental landmass in the Northern Atlantic Ocean that will destroy much of Earth's existing continents, in the process killing billions of people and leaving him as the new landmass' owner. Seeing the effect of a Kryptonite sample on Jason, Luthor asks who Jason's father really is; after Lois asserts that the father is Richard, Luthor leaves to launch the crystal, which he has encased in green Kryptonite, into the sea. Under water, the crystal begins to create Luthor's new landmass. Lois faxes their co-ordinates to The Daily Planet and is attacked by a henchman. The henchman is crushed to death by a piano, which Jason shoves at him. Afterward, Lois and Jason are imprisoned in a kitchen galley. Luthor flies in his helicopter to the still forming continent. Meanwhile, Superman is attempting to minimize the destruction in Metropolis caused by the new landmass' growth when Richard arrives in a sea plane to rescue Lois and Jason. Superman soon arrives to help and then flies off to find Luthor. Meeting Luthor, Superman discovers the landmass is filled with Kryptonite, which weakens him to the point that Luthor and his henchmen are able to beat him. Superman is stabbed by Luthor with a shard of Kryptonite and falls into the ocean. Lois makes Richard turn back to rescue Superman, whereupon she removes the Kryptonite from his back. Superman, after regaining his strength from the sun, lifts the landmass after putting layers of earth between him and the Kryptonite. Luthor and Kitty escape in their helicopter; Kitty, unwilling to let billions of people die, tosses away the crystals that Lex stole from the Fortress of Solitude. She and Luthor are stranded on a desert island when their helicopter runs out of fuel. Superman pushes the landmass into space, but is weakened by the Kryptonite and crashes back to Earth. Doctors remove more Kryptonite from Superman's wound, but after it is removed they cannot penetrate his skin with their surgical tools. While Superman remains in a coma, Lois and Jason visit him at the hospital where Lois whispers a secret into Superman's ear and then kisses him. Superman later awakens and flies to visit Jason, reciting Jor-El's last speech to Jason as he sleeps, the way his father did to him. Lois starts writing another article, titled “Why the World Needs Superman”. Superman reassures her that he is now back to stay, and flies off to low orbit, where he gazes down at the world once again. Filming began in February 2005, and the movie was released in the United States on June 28, 2006 after sixteen months of filming and production. It was the first theatrical Superman film since 1987's Superman IV: The Quest For Peace. The film received mostly positive critical reviews and grossed over $391 million worldwide. The film revolves around Superman's return to Earth after a five-year absence. He re-assumes his secret identity of Clark Kent, and discovers that Lois Lane—now in a "prolonged engagement"—has a five-year-old son. Superman's nemesis, arch-villain Lex Luthor has devised a new plan to defeat Superman. Director Bryan Singer has said that the continuity is "taking off from the first two Superman films with Christopher Reeve", which serve as its back-story, or as he put it, a "vague history". Marlon Brando's role as Superman's biological father Jor-El is reprised with the help of computer-generated imagery and earlier footage. This movie can be summed up in one word, STALKER! I won't bore you with the details of the film. I'll give you a sense of it's truthiness. Superman is back, after 5 years of building vital interstellar trade agreements with one planet after the other, Superman finally returns to earth. After vanquishing the enemies of America in parallel universes, on other Anti American plains of existance, and on evil, freedom hating planets all over the universe, Superman comes home. On his return he finds that he is now only allowed to fight for truth, justice, and all that other stuff. This is unacceptable! Everyone knows that Superman fights for the American Way. Not the United Way people. The American one! And let me tell you, Superman is not happy about it. He has to work for the Daily Planet. Everyday going to work at this once great American newspaper, now just a liberally slanted visage of it's former self. What has happened to America while he was busting union reps on Alpha Centauri? Superman struggles to come to grip with these so called facts. He's mad as hell! An anger that only anti American sentiment can provoke. So, he does what Americans do in times of crisis. He seeks out his old scapegoat, Lex Luthor. In Superman's absence, Lex Luthor has been keeping America running like a top. Since his prior defeat, by Superman, Luthor has really cleaned up his act. Luthorcorp's mission has agreed with the President 125% of the time. That's a good record. But Superman, obviously under the influence of some horrible side effect of yellow journalism, starts going after Luthorcorp. And people, that means he's against The President, and freedom itself. Write the first section of your page here. As a kid it was most easy to love 'Superman'. He was the perfect superhero, a perfect role-model for any kid mired in comicbook pop mythology- faster than a speeding bullet, stronger than a locomotive, he could soar into the skies, had x-ray vision, heat rays, cold breath, never told lies, was essentially a good guy who prefered his villians incarcerated when he should have clearly broken thier necks and as a sign of absolute irrevernce wore his underwear inside out. Okay, okay.. so did Batman, Phantom et al. But nothing clashes like red and blue. But as the years went by and it slowly dawned that the world was far more imperfect than it ever seemed, it was Superman's very infallibility and political correctness that seemed to jar. He seemed far too perfect like a first bencher who still managed to qualify for the school cricket team. The consciousness was set for the likes of the brooding Batman who didn't spare second thought on throwing villians into a vat of acid or the wild-as-hell Wolverine who seemed to share his sense of justice with the Hell's Angels and Hellboy who sometimes tended to feel too damn lethargic to fight off the demons of hell. Superheroe movies too, more or less followed a similar pattern. The earlier movies and TV series seemed more inclined to camp and action set pieces than make a half-way decent effort to convey a story. The first 'Superman' movie (1978), helmed by action director Richard Donner was one of the first movies to strike a perfect balance between camp, action and story. Other than a ludicrous climax which stretches your common-sense like none other, the movie set a new bar for comic-book adaptations. The sequel to the movie, despite its troubled production, managed to admirably carry on the legacy of the Superman series. With the third and fourth installations however studio greed took the forefront and what percipitated was the utter ruin of a franchise that was once pregnant with promise. Since then there have been many attempts to resurface the franchise including one with Kevin Smith, Tim Burton and Nicholas Cage. It all fell apart and it was only when 'X-men' helmer Bryan Singer took on the reigns that the project began to fall in place. Singer brought along his X-team of screenwriters, editor, cinematographer and music director, signed up an unknown Brandon Routh as Superman and in a master-stroke, landed Kevin'Kaizer Souze' Spacey as everybody's favorite megalomaniac Lex Luthor. Also Singer had the brilliant if odd idea of devising 'Superman Returns' as the third installment of 'Superman' thus discounting the third and fourth films. What is clear right from the opening credits is the reverence Singer has for the first two films. Blue blocked letters that streak across a comic-book galaxy to John William's original Superman theme. The sense of nostalgia that Singer evokes is overwhelming. After landing Luthor and cronies in prison at the end of the second film, Superman it seems didn't hang around with an annoying Richard Pryor but instead took a trip half-way across the galaxy to uncover the remains of his home planet Krypton. Five years of soul searching and the Man of Steel returns to his adopted planet only to find that much has changed. The world seems to have accepted to live in a world with it's blue-eyed saviour and flame Louis Lane is married-ish, has a kid who may or may not have a (in the words of Brodie in 'mallrats')Kryptonian biological makeup and has recieved a Pultizer for her editorial 'Why the World doesn't need Superman?' But it just so happens that Luthor has just been realsed from the prison and has teamed up with a bunch of henchmen (among them American Desi Kal Penn in a thankless role) and armcandy Kitty Kowalski (piper perabo) and has managed to secure a humungous yatcht by playing toy-boy to a dying woman. What's more is that Luthor has harnessed the power of the Kryptonian crystals which also happens to be the only substance that can bring the Man of Steel to his knees. The Action set peices are breathtaking. Especially the one which welcomes Superman back in true-blue All-American Hero style as he guides a Spaceship onto its course while simultaneously rescuing a baseball field full of people from being pulverized by an errant airplane which also happens to contain Louis Lane. The movie is replete with preposterous 9/11 imagery (people falling of tumbling building being rescued by Superman) and allusions to the Man of Steel as a Christ-figure of sorts. Singer directs these scenes with reverence and a visual brilliance that manages to overshadow the fundamental cheesiness of it all. The movie features some spectacular scenes of great beauty like when Superman rises above the clouds, his facade beautiful and majestic against the sun. But all the visual spectacles don't stop the movie from being much more than a technologically updated rehash of the original 'Superman'. Singer seems overawed by the movie and the refernces brim over- Superman takes Louis for a romantic flight by night, the baseball is thrown into infinity, marlon brando as the father resurected digitally, the scenes with the younger Superman running through the fields and even Luthor's final diabolical plan is pretty much similar to his plan in the 1978 movie, only this time it involves a much larger piece of real estate. It is in the quieter moments of the movie that Singer leaves an impact. He manages to give an otherwise annoyingly wholesome character some moments of introspection and remorse. That will be his lasting achievement and contribution to the Superman franchise. As far as acting chops are concerned, Spacey steals the show. He's mischievious, funny, psychotic and oh-so-utterly-mad. Kate Bosworth as Louis Lane is about as insipid as Katie Holmes was in last year's 'Batman Begins'. Piper Perabo, usually delightful in quirky roles, somehow can't pull off Kitty Kowalski convincingly. And as for the Man in Blue, Brandon Routh fills in the iconic Christopher Reeve's cape commendably but is lacking when it comes to alter-ego Clark Kent's boots. The late Reeve's comic timing and goofball charm is missing and there are times, like when Louis kisses her new lover, I couldn't help but wonder how Reeve's Clark would have reacted. Singer's movie is far from great but as a comeback vehicle for a new-age Superman, it's perfect. It's spectacular, humorous and sentimental. Unlike the self-referencing superhero movies of late, he has dared to come up with a real superhero movie. The movie bodes with promise, promise of a 'Super' movie in the near future. Superman Returns is a semi-reboot of the Superman series. It takes the place of Superman III and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. The film uses Superman: The Movie and Superman II as a vague backstory. In the film, Superman has returned after being gone for five years, and tries to restore his relationship with Lois Lane and stop Lex Luthor from destroying America with The Fortress of Solitude's Crystals. Superman Returns is a 2006 American superhero movie and a sequel to the 2003 DC Comics reboot Superman Rises directed by Bryan Singer and starring Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth and Kevin Spacey.