Superman Is Back

Just in time to save the world! This review is by Megan Basham:

While this storyline is unquestionably traditional, by introducing the question of whether there is a need for Superman, Singer and his team comically deal with modern mores. The idea that the Pulitzer Prize committee would award a point of view that disparages something so fundamentally good and (previously) American as Superman is laughable, but also all too possible. It may do so only for humorÂ’s sake, but conservative audiences wonÂ’t be able to resist a plot that introduces the argument that Superman imposes his do-gooding on the world, with Superman coming out the victor.

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Similarly, rather than sidestepping the Superman/Christ connection, Singer plays it for everything its worth. As Superman tells Lois: "You wrote that the world doesn't need a savior. But every day I hear people crying for one." Later, after Lex and his thugs beat Superman down Gesthemane-style, he rises, arms spread in a cross formation to the sun as his Kryptonian father’s voice intones over the air, “It is because of their [the human race] capacity for good that I sent them my only son.

OK, that pushing it a little, but the story does sound like a parallel with the Bush War on Terror. After going our merry way in the 1990's, we suddenly got a dramatic wake-up call on 9/11. Thankfully, our savior wasn't Al Gore.