Will I Return?
I have decidely ambivalent feelings about Superman Returns. On the one hand, I love larger-than-life superhero pictures. From X-Men to Spiderman to Batman Begins to the first two Superman movies, my favorites of all times, I crave the excitement, the world-is-ending story lines, the special effects - the whole spectacle. The buzz so far is positive for Superman Returns. However, the first two were so good - and so different than the current incarnation, which appears X-Men like - that I'm not sure about seeing the movie when it opens next week. For me, Christopher Reeves will always be Superman and Gene Hackman will always be Lex Luthor. I don't know whether I can handle a serious verious as opposed to campy and humorous take on the comic legend and an evil instead of funny Luthor. The tipping point may be that Superman Returns will be playing in IMAX and 3D. Like Cars, which I decided to see after learning it was playing in DLP at the Ziegfeld Theater, I may not able to the resist the lure of Superman in such an eye-popping format. My mind will be made up next week when the first true reviews come in and the movie is in front of me.