A Good Superhero Picture -- But Not Enough Explosions!

Rating: 2/10 (10 July 2013)

MAN OF STEEL? It's a pretty good movie, but I don't think they spent enough money on all the explosions. At the beginning of the movie, on Krypton, Russell Crowe mumbles about the planet being ready to explode. But then they only spend about ten minutes showing the planet Krypton explode! I wanted a solid hour of explosions, with no dialog or plot to distract me from the excitement of watching the planet blow up.
Later in the movie, Superman gets in a big fist fight with a bunch of evil Kryptonians in his hometown of Smallville, Kansas. And they smash a lot of buildings. But they don't smash all of them! I wanted to see more buildings get smashed, and catch on fire, and see more of how the debris is all shattered and black smoke is pouring out everywhere. I mean, they did a ten minute sequence here, but I wanted four hours of nothing but explosions!
Oh, and it was really cool when General Zod's evil minions take on the helicopters and smash them in with their bare fists. But couldn't they have destroyed the whole United States Air Force? Couldn't we have seen sixteen hours of footage of nothing but airplanes blowing up? And why weren't the explosions noisier? I wanted more explosions!
It was worse when they moved the fight to New York City. Superman throws General Zod through a few buildings, but not enough! Why couldn't he just drag General Zod face down across fifty city blocks of pavement? Why wasn't it noisier? Why didn't more stuff blow up?
Amy Adams is really cute as Lois Lane. But she's not nearly as funny and perky here as she was in NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM II: Battle of The Smithstonian. I think it's because having a cute, pretty Lois Lane would distract Superman from finding his parents. And stopping General Zod. And watching all the cool explosions.
To sum up, then, I would say that MAN OF STEEL is a good superhero picture -- but there were not enough explosions!