Movie Star Blog

The new Superman movie is getting mixed reviews, which is easy to understand given the character’s strong-man-in-tights schizophrenia. But Dargis points out that the movie’s makers pad Superman’s job description. Besides keeping the world safe from Kevin Spacey, the S-Man has the additional, more tiresome chore of saving humankind from its own sins. In case anyone misses the Super-Passion theme, one scene has our hero suspended in mid-air with arms outstretched like the J-Man Himself.