Who allowed this movie to exist?

Rating: 2/10 (16 December 2013)

First off, I gave this movie 2 stars instead of 1 because it is visually impressive. Aside from that, this movie was total garbage.
A lot of the people who argue that this movie is good and that critics always rag on super hero movies due to lack of any artistic or emotional value. I understand this, and I agree that for most super hero movies, it is about being entertaining rather than having great acting and fantastic plots. There are plenty of movies that aren't necessarily "good" in the traditional sense but that I still enjoy because they are fun to watch, like the Fast and Furious series or Expendables, or pretty much any other recent super hero movie. This one managed to be so horrifyingly awful that, despite a few cool fight scenes, it is virtually unwatchable.
The first hour and a half of the movie is pretty much just jumping around between different places and times in Superman's life. This is obviously not uncommon in movies, but in Man of Steel it just feels drawn out and boring. You see him get teased and taunted, which makes you want to see him get some amount of revenge, but there was really only one scene where he lets himself get even, which left me feeling very unsatisfied. He is basically being held back by his father, who is supposed to be his sort of guide into becoming a hero. His dad is so strict on his rule of "don't show off you're super powers", that he doesn't let Superman save his life in front of the towns people, although I feel as though the people would have found it odd that this super buff young guy didn't try to save his father, super powers or not.
This scene is obviously supposed to tug at your heart strings, which it doesn't, at all. I felt no emotional attachment to anyone in this movie, probably due to the barrage of shallow flash backs. They got in a fight right before this scene, kind of like in the Tobey Maguire Spiderman with the fight with Uncle Ben, except in this movie, it is impossible to care at all about it.
Speaking of shallowness and lack of emotion, how about that forced love between Superman and Lois Lane? They probably spent like, collectively a couple of hours alone together and are now madly in love. And how about the worst attempt at humor in the history of the universe? They kiss and she says "They say it all goes down hill after the first kiss" and he says something about that only applying to humans. How is their relationship going to go downhill? They are in the middle of a destroyed New York City, where god knows how many people have just died, which also makes their kiss and light heartedness pretty inappropriate. (By the way, Amy Adams is almost ten years older than Henry Cavill, I think Superman can do better).
Did anyone else notice the super shameless advertising? I don't really care if everyone is driving a BMW or using a Mac, but they fought in front of a Sears, which is pretty thoroughly wrecked aside from the huge intact Sears sign that is constantly in the background.
I have read other reviews about the plot holes, so I won't even go there, but yeah, there is about a million.
In short: Movies can have no substance but still be fun and worth seeing. This is not one of those movies.