Growing up I always saw DC Comics as fun and Marvel Comics as serious.
DC characters seemed to have no problems back then while Marvel’s characters thrived on personal drama (The Parker Luck, for example).
While I love both equally now, when I was a kid I was very much a DC Comics fan, with stories both in comics and on TV where the heroes always won, villains went to jail, and everything was black and white.
James Gunn’s Superman captures that feeling, the feeling of the invincibility of heroes through and through, almost as if the pages of a comic have come to life on screen.
This movie felt more like a comic book than any comic book movie ever has. And it very much feels like the comics that I read when I was still in single digits, age-wise.
While some reviews call Mr. Terrific the MVP of the movie, my vote goes to Krypto, the goodest boy in the universe. He stole every scene he was in, and it made me smile every time.
The cast is phenomenal, every character is pretty much a modern version, yet felling very classic in execution.
The plot is so much comic booky that somewhere, Julius Schwartz and Mort Weisinger are smiling.
There was so much I loved about this movie, it’s possibly my favorite Superman film, as much as I love the original 1978 film and Man of Steel.
Highly recommended. Two thumbs up. GO SEE IT!
Also, there’s 2 credits scenes.
