US Edition‘Superman’ Review: James Gunn Gets DCU Off to Rocky, Overstuffed Start
METROPOLIS, JUL 08 – James Gunn and Peter Safran reboot Superman with a hopeful tone, introducing a new Justice Gang and tackling themes of heroism and identity in a $670 million franchise.
- The movie Superman, directed by James Gunn and starring David Corenswet, opens in theaters on Friday with a runtime of 2 hours and 9 minutes.
- Gunn rebooted Superman to move away from the darker Snyderverse, aiming for a more human, kind, and optimistic hero rooted in Cleveland's origins.
- The film features complex geopolitics including a fictional war between Jarhanpur and Boravia, with villains like Lex Luthor, who tries to manipulate the Pentagon and stir conflict.
- Superman suffers his first-ever defeat to the Hammer of Boravia, faces off against multiple villains, and relies on allies like the Justice Gang featuring Hawkgirl and Green Lantern.
- Despite its ambitious scope and hopeful tone, critics find the reboot overstuffed and muddled with villains, but it offers a promising start for the new DC Universe under Gunn's leadership.
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‘Superman’ review: James Gunn gets DCU off to rocky, overstuffed start
In a certain acclaimed musical, characters wonder why Founding Father Alexander Hamilton writes like he’s running out of time. We might ask the same thing of James Gunn. In 2022, Warner Bros. Discovery hired the filmmaker behind the largely fantastic “Guardians of the Galaxy” movies for Disney-owned Marvel Studios as co-chairman and -CEO of DC Studios. WBD tasked him with overseeing the construction of the DC Universe — the successor to the DC E…
Few, very few legendary characters of cinema generate intense speculations or heated debates when the time comes to choose and announce that new actor or face that will embody it on the screen. The main ones, I would think, have always...
By Juan Carlos Arciniegas, CNN en Español Few, very few legendary movie characters generate intense speculation or heated debate when the time comes to choose and announce the new actor or face who will embody them on screen. The main ones, I would think, have always been: James Bond, Batman, and Superman. Therefore, just days before the release of what is expected to be a new generation of installments about the also-called Man of Steel, expect…
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