MezrichA
Joined May 2003
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Superman arrives as a patchwork of borrowed ideas-some lifted from other franchises, others recycled from earlier Superman films. Once again, the creative deck is reshuffled in a futile attempt to reinvent a character who has remained essentially static across nearly 50 years of cinema and over 80 years in popular culture.
The film suffers from a miscast or underwritten Lois Lane, a serviceable but unremarkable Superman, and a Lex Luthor plan that veers into the incomprehensible. While it nods to Luthor's original land-grabbing schemes-both from the classic films comics-it fails to give them any credible motivation or coherence.
There are moments of originality and even a few flashes of wit (particularly from Mr. Terrific), but they're lost in a film that never quite finds its purpose. Combined with the often drab visuals and boring music(a few bars of classic William's score excepted), this is a miss.
The film suffers from a miscast or underwritten Lois Lane, a serviceable but unremarkable Superman, and a Lex Luthor plan that veers into the incomprehensible. While it nods to Luthor's original land-grabbing schemes-both from the classic films comics-it fails to give them any credible motivation or coherence.
There are moments of originality and even a few flashes of wit (particularly from Mr. Terrific), but they're lost in a film that never quite finds its purpose. Combined with the often drab visuals and boring music(a few bars of classic William's score excepted), this is a miss.
Certain eras coin people and elevate them above others forever but when it comes to comedy specials this is not such a time, and Mark Normand, despite his talent, remains derivative of others- particularly Chris Rock (who he practically mimics at one point) and Jerry Seinfeld. He has some great lines but the man/woman stuff doesn't quite work, the "let's go back to fun racial slurs" is the plea of an old man and his unvarying tone and setups lose your attention at times. He remains king of the podcast one liners but even he can't change the fact that specials are starting to look like something from another age.
