Not your father's Superman - yes, it's that bad

Rating: 4/10 (5 November 2013)

I cannot add too much as it's been reviewed so much already.
However I can say this : If you're tired of comic films and general remakes or reboots becoming all about action, action, more action, CGI, and stereotypical EPIC-NESS in your face all the time, then give Man of Steel a miss.
There's a trend going around Hollywood where they expand on the smaller backstories of super heroes in order to 'flesh' them out and ultimately make money from it. Instead of relying on an intelligent audience to enjoy a well written film, they expect the entitlement ADD generation to not be interested unless it involves violence, sex and a hint of Michael Bay-ism.
They fail to realize that the smaller back stories to our comic heroes were meant to stay a mystery, always to be wondered about but not be the main focus.
In Man of Steel, by 1/3 into the film and the script goes into detail about origins, answering the burning questions and handing everything to Clark on a silver platter. They dumb it down and give it word for word to the ignorant audience, whom they have no faith in to figure things on their own.
As for the other 2/3 of the film, insert romantic-hero-epic-CGI action film stereotypes or just read the other reviews on this site.
Gone are the days of Christopher Reeves playing the socially awkward Clark Kent - heck gone are the days of Clark Kent. All you see in this film is some emo buff looking bad boy named Kal for the most part.