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.)

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.

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
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