Jenny, I can appreciate that you liked the film as much as you did but PLEASE don't make generic assumptions that people who complain about it as 'fanboys' who just want more explosions. First of all, there are thousands of young film viewers who *do* just want explosions in summer movies but those are more than likely *not* your more discerning 'fanboy' audience.

Second if the 'fanboy' crowd (in which I don't include myself at least in any sort of derogatory fashion inasmuch as anyone who posts on these forums are geeks and fanboys/girls etc) has complaints about this movie (and many do, try reading the SuperHeroHype Superman Returns forums for comments on either side) it is that Bryan Singer made a COPY of one director's interpretation of a character and INGNORED years and years of history of that character. Whether people like 'Superman' the comic or character or not I feel there was very little to be gained by 'modernizing' him in the way that Singer did and more importantly THROWING out the fundamental nature of the character, the very things that make the character who he is, for the sake of 'emotionalizing' him in a way that the director could better relate to. And I think the mixed reactions (and box office take) show this. Well, also that the movie has very little going on in the plot and what does go on is, frankly and no matter what genre, kind of boring and nonsensical.

I read in one review that Singer had suceeded, in that reviewer's opinion, in making Superman 'creepier than Batman' and I tend to agree. Saving people in and of itself is not heroic. There has to be heart and morals behind it. And the SR version of Superman, IMHO, has no heroic heart behind it. He's mopey, mostly self-serving and obsessive- which if Bryan Singer wanted to make up his own hero and call him Singerman or whatever that might be fine... but that is not Superman. At least not the Superman I've read in comics, seen in TV shows (and I've never watched 'Smallville' as it looks like more whiny WB soap opera crap to me) or even seen in the original 'Superman' films (and I'll even include 3 and maybe even 4, superior to Batman Forever and B & R). And using the old film style opening credits and using the Williams 'Superman' theme to tug at our nostalgia left me with just about as bitter of a taste as seeing the opening of 'The Phantom Menace'... I *wanted* to feel it fit in but in the end I couldn't delude myself.

So basically I am glad you liked it and wouldn't take that away for the world but please don't knock people who *didn't* enjoy it. They're people too!

Now I think I'll go try and figure out how a 22 year old Pulitzer Prize winning journalist is too stupid to be able spell 'catastrophe'. *sigh*