2025 - SUPERMAN, latest version on the big screen

Yes it's entertaining, it has action and humor.  It's a little on the long side but not excessively so.  Superman turns out to be a good summer movie event.

The film was carefully cast.  David Corenswet is very good as Superman, he manages to instill the modesty in the character and is not some saccharine goody two shoes.  Rachel Brosnahan is a feisty Lois Lane and Nicholas Hoult is the hiss able villain Lex Luthor.  This version of Superman adds Krypto the Superdog a character I had remembered from the conics.  Fortunately they didn't push their luck on this super pet stuff so we weren't inflicted with Streaky the Supercat.

The writer/director James Gunn is obviously an aficionado of this superhero stuff as he has proved with his Guardians of the Galaxy series for Marvel.  But Gunn is smart enough to know that you can't take this material very seriously he loads the film up with plenty of humor. 

If I had any issue with the film it would be that the plot is a very busy one with civil wars, a kaiju monster, an inter dimensional prison and the addition of lots of other superheros that probably most people have never heard of.  In this film we are expected to know who Green Lantern, Hawkgirl, Metamorpho and Mister Terrific are.  It sometimes seems like you can't tell the players without a program.

There has been some criticism that this film has some kind of left wing agenda.  Maybe yes, maybe no.  I suppose it's what you read into it based on what your politics are.  But if you want to waste your time worrying about the politics of a film that has a guy flying around in his underwear, be my guest.

Written by James Gunn, the running time is 129 minutes.