Superman Returns...your thoughts

For me Superman Returns was a huge disappointment and basically thought it sucked.

The trouble for me was I was bought up watching Christopher Reeves as Superman and for me he was the man of Steel. But watching Brandon Routh take on the role he just didn't convince me that he was Superman. What I think happened was that Superman Returns targetted a new audience who had watched the TV shows such as "smallvile" and "lois & clark" and so portrayed a very different Superman to the one which I knew and so didn't appeal to me as I wasn't a fan of the TV shows.

If they do make another Superman movie I hope they go for a complete unknown and hopefully someone who can portray Superman something closer to Christopher Reeves interpretation.

Brandon Routh didn't bring much to the table when he wasn't impersonating Reeve. Not bad, but kudos to Babs Broccoli for getting in Daniel Craig rather than some Connery lookalike.

Superman should be all about hope and triumph but this was a bit like Connery's Robin and Marion in which a hero belatedly returns after a period of absence to find things have changed. It's all a bit melancholic not to mention odd when you see Supes and Lois are younger than ever - a bit like OHMSS where Bond is ready to settle down despite looking younger. (As you may guess, I'm a Bond fan.)

Plus you get adult concerns, like just as well Supes is taller than Lois or otherwise when they're getting it on and he's gazing into her eyes at the moment of climax he'd suddenly smell burning feathers and realise Lois' head is a charred, smouldering stump thanks to his deadly laser eyes!

One of the most boring movies I ever watched and I'm not even kidding. Brian Singer did a great job with X-men so I don't understand how did ended up so badly. I didn't like Brandon Routh nor the redesign of the costume.