Superman Returns

[Haggisdj]

I really enjoyed the film but do you think his five year absence from earth was to explain why he couldn't stop the aircraft on 9/11?

[andy-hughes]

No, I think it's all part of the magic of comics. The simple fact that a building full of newspaper reporters never seems tro twig that when Clark is about, SM isn't, and vice versa, and that's before we get to the glarlingly obvious physical similarities.

Actually, Mike Yarwood used to employ a similar technique - after an hour of dubious 'impressions;, he would sing (very badly!) a song and preface it with "...and this is me ...." and the scales would fall from the viewers' eyes and we would realise that the characters that had lost us the will to live in the preceeding eons of time were all in fact ... him!

How amazed we were - so much so, that we forgot it all it until he did it again the next week.

Only problem is, Superman is a comic-strip character, whereas Mr Yarwood was more of a tragedy masquerading as light ... a-ho-ho-hee-hee-hah-hah ... 'entertainment'.

[Postdog]

I hated the bit where he "sang". In fact, after a while, I began to hate him and all subsequent impressionists.

[beale]

Great question haggisdj.

I think 11 September must've been on the filmmakers' minds when they were doing the movie, what with those events being straight out of Hollywood and comic book adventures where the evil genius is always thwarted by Superman/John McClean etc. and the proper order is restored. The part of the US national psyche that created those All-American Heroes (only the fictional ones of course) must've taken a knock after that. Making a Superman film in the post 9-11 wolrd is probably a different affair than the cold-war era ones. Or maybe not, one for the media students maybe.

[pinksmartie]

did superman save the day again?