Really, Really, Poor

Rating: 2/10 (27 February 2006)

Gawd-awful mix of impossibly shallow love sub-plot, with WWII trumpet-laden, march music and early '50's American jingoism. I'm certain the novel is much better, because this piece of crap transitions from scene to scene as abruptly as a 1950's Superman, after-school, 30-minute segment. The characters have less definition than Jimmy Olsen; that said, the plot mechanisms and dialog are no worse than the original Superman series.
I only voted it a '2' because the directing and 1950's rural Oklahoma college drama department level of acting are as competently handled as seen in the Superman series that worked so well for so many years.
That is, of course, a terribly low, if not somewhat ridiculous standard; I only use it because it is so apt.