I figure Loveshack might like this review.
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We watched Superman Vs Doomsday last night.
The trouble with getting older is you start picking apart comic book logic. Like the Superfriends for example.
"Why is the Legion of Doom using Multi Million dollar robots to rob a liqour store? Couldn't they just sell the robots to the US military and get a contract for 10 year maintaince plan from the Pentagon and make BILLIONS? All while making themselves look like heroes to America?"
So I'm watching the movie and it's not super bad but it's not good. They changed the voices. Anne Heche sounds like she's giving her lines after a marathon. The writing is poor. Superman's drawn with lines on his face to make himself look chiseled but it looks like bad art. Luthor looks metrosexual and not imposing. Toyman isn't a creepy Talking Tina type doll anymore but rather a overweight Goth Kid. But first to the plot holes.
Superman needs to save Lois and Jimmy in helicopters. However he's fighting Doomsday. What does he do? He throws Doomsday through a building and causes it to collapse killing a few thousand people... just to save two. Superman then throws him on railroad tracks (then we see a train go by with the soon to be killed passengers), more buildings and through what I'm guessing is an orphanage.
Then he continues throwing Doomsday though building after building. At no time did he throw him out into the water to fight. Heck, fly him up to Jupiter and throw him in the red spot. Finally at the end he lifts him into near orbit and flies back down with incredible velocity right in the middle of a major city. Couldn't he land in the Arctic or a cornfield?
Finally after thousands of deaths, destroyed buildings, damaged power stations and for all intents and purposes a meteorite striking the city, the citizens of Metropolis are freed of the being who caused the damage when Superman dies.
Here's a review from another site. The part with Luthor on top of Superman's back while on the ground and asking: "Who's your Daddy" sticks in my mind.
To top it all off, this is quite possibly the gayest Superman ever portrayed on film. I don't mean that in a derrogative sense, I mean that in the sense that this film is laced with slightly veiled homo-erotic phrases or imagery. At more then one occasion, Lex refers to Superman as a "Beautiful God." There's a seen were Lex is fighting his evil Superman clone, straddled on top of him and asking "Why did you leave me?" For a moment, not just myself but the others watching the film with me, honestly thought Lex was gonna kiss him! Throw on top of that a few shots of Supes in a thong with his flowing locks and some oil wrestling between the two Superman and you really get to wondering. My favorite part had to be when evil Superman grabbed the now long-locked Superman by the hair, repeatedly pulling him down to "Knee" him in the face. Of course, all we see is Superman's head bobbing up and down a few times, before falling to his knees and onto the ground. Evil Superman follows this attack with, "Now who's better EQUIPPED to defend the city." I almost fell out of my chair.