Superman Is The Most Fun DC Comics Movie Yet

(This is a spoiler free review of Superman. I promise there are no major details about the plot below.)

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Superman isn’t the best DC Comics movie. It’s nowhere near the greatness of the Donner/Burton/Nolan movies but it’s the most fun DC Comics movie ever made.

You can almost feel the enthusiasm director James Gunn has for this material coming out of the screen. He makes you care almost as much as he does. A big reason is why is this is perfectly cast with David Corenswet (Superman) , Rachel Brosnahan (Lois Lane) and Nicholas Hoult (Lex Luthor) all doing a brilliant job with the material. Brosnahan may be the best Lois Lane yet. This movie is really well cast with only Hawkgirl and Ma & Pa Kent as weak links.

The Christopher Reeve/Margot Kidder chemistry was great to watch from the older movies but I enjoyed the Corenswet/Brosnahan dynamic more because it felt more like they were on even ground. In the 1978 Superman, Lois just meets Superman and is (understandably) wowed by him. It feels more like a crush than a true relationship. This was the first time I can recall a Lois standing her ground.

It’s not a perfect movie and sometimes Gunn’s enthusiasm has the movie collapse on itself with so much going on but it always saves itself. You can see Gunn trying so hard to build a world but, unlike the dour Snyder movies, it’s a world you want to see even more of. This doesn't have the intensity of the great Nolan/Dark Knight movies or even Iron Man. But this is not trying to be what those films were. Compared to Batman Vs. Superman, this is a breath of fresh air.

I’m very pleased to see DC movies be in such good hands. At times this movie felt like I was reading a good comic. But will non-comic book readers appreciate (and want to be introduced to) a bunch of new characters like Guy Gardner and Metamorpho? Filmgoers had open minds with Guardians Of The Galaxy (and other smaller Marvel titles). If people are willing to give this a shot, this be a really cool new universe to watch for years to come.

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Superman Movies Ranked:

1. Superman (1978)

2. Superman II (1980)

3. Superman (2025)

4. Superman Returns (2006)

5. Man Of Steel (2013)

6. Superman III (1983)

7. Batman Vs. Superman (2016)

8. Superman IV (1987)

I did also see How To Train Your Dragon this week

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How To Train Your Dragon is a far better movie that it has any right to be. I didn’t really connect to the original cartoon and I still don’t find these characters all that interesting. But you can’t ignore the care that is put into this movie from the great flight sequences to the production design.

This is miles better than Snow White which suffered from cheap sets and a need to make Dopey an after-school special. Because this was directed by Dean DeBlois (who also directed the original), there was real care here. 

The dragons looked fantastic (and scarier than you’d expect from this kind of movie). I’m never going to be someone that finds this story very compelling but it did everything it could do to make this as interesting as it could be.

I just wish these creative people could be working on original movies instead.

2025 Movies Ranked

1)Sinners 

2)Presence 

3)The Life Of Chuck 

4)Black Bag 

5)The Ballad Of Wallis Island 

6)Warfare 

7)Friendship 

8)SUPERMAN 

9)Mission Impossible 8 

10)28 Years Later 

11)Novocaine 

12)Final Destination 6 

13)The Amateur 

14)Drop 

15)Dangerous Animals 

16)Death Of A Unicorn 

17)The Accountant 2 

18)The Damned 

19)One Of Them Days 

20)Materialists

21)Lilo & Stitch 

22)Paddington 3 

23)Thunderbolts 

24)F1 

25)Clown In A Cornfield 

26)Bring Her Back 

27)Hell Of A Summer 

28)Karate Kid 6 

29)Fight Or Flight 

30)Valiant One 

31)HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON

32)Elio 

33)Rule Breakers 

34)Heart Eyes 

35)Mickey 17 

36)The Surfer 

37)Last Breath 

38)Flight Risk 

39)Minecraft 

40)Den Of Thieves 2 

41)Dogman 

42)Companion 

43)Jurassic World Rebirth 

44)Ballerina 

45)A Working Man 

46)The Last Rodeo 

47)Shadow Force 

48)The Alto Knights 

49)The Penguin Lessons 

50)The Chosen Part 2 

51)Looney Tunes 

52)Opus 

53)M3GAN 2 

54)Becoming Led Zeppelin 

55)Captain America: BNW 

56)Until Dawn 

57)The Chosen Part 1 

58)Riff Raff 

59)Inheritance 

60)The Chosen Part 3 

61)The Wedding Banquet 

62)The Legend Of Ochi 

63)Night Of The Zoopocalypse 

64)The Phoenician Scheme 

65)Sneaks 

66)Ash 

67)The King Of Kings 

68)The Friend 

69)Dan Da Dan 2 

70)Snow White 

71)The Unbreakable Boy 

72)Brave The Dark 

73)Wolf Man 

74)Hurry Up Tomorrow 

75)The Monkey 

76)Love Hurts 

77)The Last Supper 

78)Woman In The Yard 

79)Bride Hard 

80)Juliet & Romeo 

81)In The Lost Lands