Superman Returns (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD] | ![Superman Returns (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5192ucOsSDL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Bryan Singer
Actors: Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth, James Marsden, Frank Langella, Eva Marie Saint
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  770 reviews
Sales Rank: 39171
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: HD DVD
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 154 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: HD81037
UPC: 012569810372
EAN: 0012569810372
ASIN: B000J10KTQ
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: November 28, 2006
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Product Description
He's back. A hero for our millennium. And not a moment too soon because during the five years (much longer in movie-fan years!) Superman sought his home planet things changed on his adopted planet. Nations moved on without him. Lois Lane now has a son a fiance and a Pulitzer for "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman." And Lex Luthor has a plan that will destroy millions - no billions - of lives. Filmmaker Bryan Singer (X-Men) gives the world the Superman it needs honoring the legend everyone loves while taking it in a powerful new direction. Brandon Routh proves a perfect choice to wear the hero's cape leading a top cast that includes Kate Bosworth as Lois and Kevin Spacey as Lex. And the thrills - from a sky-grapple with a tumbling jumbo jet to a continent-convulsing showdown - redefine Wow. "I'm always around" Superman tells Lois. You'll be glad he is.Running Time: 154 min.System Requirements:Run Time: 154 minsFormat: DVD HD Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: PG-13 UPC: 012569810372 Manufacturer No: 81037
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If Richard Donner's 1978 feature film Superman: The Movie made us believe a man could fly, Bryan Singer's 2006 follow-up, Superman Returns, lets us remember that a superhero movie can make our spirits soar. Superman (played by newcomer Brandon Routh) comes back to Earth after a futile five-year search for his destroyed home planet of Krypton. As alter ego Clark Kent, he's eager to return to his job at the Daily Planet and to see Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth). Lois, however, has moved on: she now has a fiance (James Marsden), a son (Tristan Leabu), and a Pulitzer Prize for her article entitled "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman." On top of this emotional curveball, his old archrival Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey) is plotting the biggest land grab in history. Singer, who made a strong impression among comic-book fans for his work on the X-Men franchise and directed Spacey in The Usual Suspects, brings both a fresh eye and a sense of respect to the world's oldest superhero. He borrows John Williams's great theme music and Marlon Brando's voice as Jor-El, and the story (penned by Singer's X-Men collaborators Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris) is a sort-of-sequel to the first two films in the franchise (choosing to ignore that the third and fourth movies ever happened). The humorous and romantic elements give the movie a heart, Singer's art-deco Metropolis is often breathtaking, and the special effects are elegant and spectacular, particularly an early airplane-disaster set-piece. Of the cast, Routh is excellent as the dual Superman/Clark, Spacey is both droll and vicious as Luthor, and Parker Posey gets the best lines as Luthor's moll Kitty. But at 23, Bosworth seems too young for the five-years-past-grizzled Lois. It's nice to see Noel Neill, Jack Larson (both from the classic Adventures of Superman TV series), and Eva Marie-Saint on the screen as well. Superman Returns is one of those projects that was in development for seemingly forever, but it was worth the wait -- it's the most enjoyable superhero movie since Spider-Man 2 and The Incredibles. --David Horiuchi More Superman 
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 Superman with service July 4, 2009
Christopher Palmore (KY)
I received my package within 4 days of purchase. When I opened the package it was the wrong movie. I emailed the company I bought it from and they promptly sent me out the right movie and let me keep the original movie that was shipped.
 Not an Extreme Opinion. June 28, 2009
Sean J. Slocum
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
First point, I enjoyed this movie. Not as good as the first or second I'll give it that, but not terrible as an extreme fan would say. You probably know what this movie is about from the product description, but if not then I'll break down the movie for you.
Superman returns, like the title say, from a trip in space to look at the remains of Krypton.
A lot of people have criticized this, but then again, I felt that it would be weird if he didn't because in the end i can understand and defend him. He's the last of his kind, it's not easy, and take into account this movie doesn't count the flop that was Supergirl. Of course he wants to go out there because he hopes to find someone who survived the destruction so it makes him mortified to see the place where he was born as nothing but a dead ruin.
After coming back to the Daily Planet he finds that things have changed, the woman he loves, Lois Lane has a man and is with child. Of all those msot hurt by his sudden departure is Lois and she refuses to even get involved in him and his journey back to her heart mirrors the popularity of superman with our own hearts.
How we forget him and sometimes expect too much of him or hate him because he is so powerful and I find that this reminds me what it was like to first dismiss superman as i grew up and then to realize how good it was to admire him. True her performance leaves something to be desired if not a lot, but she is the weak link.
Then comes the show stealer Lex Luthor played for gusto by Kevin Spacey. Now everyone says Gene Hackman's better, I kind of like Spacey better because he's kind of intimidating and incorporates something more menacing. Too bad he's out to use Superman's crystals for a somewhat brilliant land prospecting scheme, which I do agree is kind of lame. It's ingenious in what he does witht he crystals and his schemes are more proactive and really he's more of a criminal mastermind in this one than Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor ever was.
Really if you're not that person who is just diehard extremist over things like that, you might like Kevin Spacey better. Also his bumbling cousin/henchman is replaced by what I call a trophy girl, who provides some assistance in his schemes. I also like how he uses the wigs for disguises and not as one would wear when they are ashamed of having no hair, in fact from his entrance scene, which was done so well to make menacing and he really steals the show with his style that is a good successor to Gene Hackman. Let's face it people, there is a new Luthor.
Now Brandon Routh is a decent Superman, not as commanding as Cristopher Reeve's Superman was, but not terrible as most of the extremists say. In fact the reason I made this review is because those extremists put out these reviews which sounds like the angry rants of religious groups. Now there are some who are right in their opinion and have given this movie good thought, while others just wanted to get on a screw this movie bandwagon. There are some parts where it seems like he tries too much to be Cristopher Reeve and really I think it would be better if he did his own thing because he still shows himself to be a decent Superman. There is potential you have to note and in the next one I hope to see more of him working into Superman.
The big problem with the movie besides the noir type style that gets too dark for a Superman movie, but the big problem is that this movie doesn't try to be different for the ones before it, the good ones. Now it has some potential but it only goes so far as the others and doesn't know where to go afterwards. Kevin Spacey's Luthor seemed too big to be contained in a land prospecting scheme, no matter how clever it sounds and the fact that it would be a good commodity. Superman does very little with his strength besides the final act and he really needs an opponent or scheme that will be worthy of such magnificence, we have the technology for it.
All in all, it's not as good as one or two, those are five star movies no matter what cut in my opinion, but this movie is better than 3 and freacking lightyears better than 4. Give it an open mind and you might feel how good it is to have Superman in your life.
Fast and Cheap! June 24, 2009
Yvonne Jansen (Potomac Falls, VA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The movie came in an excellent condition. I always order movies on Amazon because the major and small stores don't carry it all.
Superman Returns (BLU RAY) June 17, 2009
Russell M. Sloan (Columbus, OH USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a must own for all comic book movie fans! The picture quailty is excellent. Brandon Routh is a very good replacement for Christopher Reeve. Lots of well spread out action, good plot, good supporting cast. Like most of the comic book movies coming out nowadays Superman Returns is actually a good movie (comic book aside)!
 A Super Disappointment June 16, 2009
John Robert Johnson (Los Angeles, CA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have given this film 1-Star, because it was so poorly conceived by Bryan Singer and terribly written by two grossly inexperienced writers that it killed off any chance of another Superman movie in the next ten years.
My primary criticism is that it presented us with a joyless, ambivalent, and forlorn Superman, who is more focused on his love-life than his mission on Earth. On top of that, the film portrays the character as self-absorbed and supremely gullible, since it starts with Superman abandoning Earth for five years to go on a wild-goose chase to another galaxy. With virtually no evidence, he hopes to find survivors in the frozen void that has drifted in space for "thousands of years" since Krypton's sun exploded. The movie doesn't even attempt to explain why he makes this devastating decision, which is a major omission in the film.
What made Superman's departure even more difficult to understand was that he left Earth only a matter of weeks before his girlfriend gave birth to their son. Wouldn't she have been 'showing' by then? Even so, the man with the X-ray vision didn't even know she was pregnant when he left, and he didn't even bother to say good-bye to her. When he finally does return, he uses his powers to invade her privacy, and tries to break up her engagement to a man who behaves in a more heroic manner than he does. Helluva super-hero.
I felt that adding a super-offspring to this film was an enormous miscalculation by Bryan Singer. How do you deal with a Superman Jr. in any sequels without it turning into a less entertaining version of "The Incredibles"? Basically, the "kid" was a gimmick that didn't work. Why would Superman be so stupid to accidentally father a potential super-child out of wedlock, then abandon the mother before the child is born?
Another major problem I had with the movie was the fact that Bryan Singer decided to bring Lex Luthor back. He even re-used some of Luthor's dialogue from the Reeve films, not to mention another tired and completely illogical real estate scheme. Ultimately, unlike the most recent Batman film, this movie had no worthy adversary for the super-hero, and that is a fatal flaw.
Overall, I would say that the somber, gloomy 'look' of the movie fit its tone quite well. In fact, a lot of people complained that the film was so dark they couldn't see some of the flying sequences. This wasn't a problem in the iMAX version, but it definitely was in regular venues. All in all, Superman Returns was a major disappointment. The only reason it made the money that it did was because it was a Superman movie. Now, audiences will be forewarned and less willing to fork over $15 to see another movie about the Adventures of Superman and Lois Lane.
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