dumb and dumber

Rating: 5/10 (9 August 2013)

I wont retell the story, and plot - It has been said, better or worst, a few dozen times thru the comics, cartoons, and movies. For a movie of hundreds of millions $$$ in Hollywood blockbuster budget range, off course, is is shiny, bigger than life spectacle. Well, Superman. But it is dumb. A Lot dumber than any recent Batman, if we choose to stay in DC universe. Acting. At start it was good. Russel Crowe and Ayelet Zurer did good performance with little story that they had. Henry Cavill is not in my opinion as good superman casting as was Brandon Routh. Too gritty for clean Superman we used to know from Christopher Reeve movies and classic comics. I would except for two times Oscar Winner Kevin Costner a little more acting than auto pilot. Al least in moments when he reveals the boy a life changing facts. Story...OK, we are in 21.st century: some more science, logic, continuity, common sense in such high budget movie would not hurt anyone. For instance; little more IQ from superior Krypton population: to forecast cataclysm and evacuate planet, instead with all that starwars technology standing and staring at each other? But instead - they practically rescue villains. And little superman baby ship needs only a few seconds to come to solar system. Why just him? Fist fight of supermans father and main villain? Really? Why are they put on, and wearing those fancy fps armors for? They don't have backup of infamous codex? They are physically exactly like European Caucasoid? They use Latin LETTERS? ("S" is most prominent of course, as for Superman)And still with no explanation, they have absolutely no idea of humans, so we are not related? Etc, etc. Overall, old story is pretty well edited, good directing, camera, and nice sounding and costumes. EFX is goodlooking, but illogical. Mostly wrong with basic mechanical principles (f.i. little body can not be big lever on flaming iron oilrig tower no matter how strong it is, or in other situation would sink in mud from pushing school bus from lake, or ... you get the picture) I know we are used to this kind superman superpowers, but in the age of computers, little simulation time for checking structural integrity, static, and good old superpowered Newtonian physic would help to distinguish a big budget movie from teenage TV series, kids cartoon, or old comicbook. Overall nice mindless fun, but with that amount of money and cast, it should have been better.