SUPERMAN

SUCKS

Superman Returns (Grade: C-)

Though Warner Bros. handed him a production budget of over 200 million smackers, hit-or-miss director Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, Apt Pupil & X-Men) managed to make a cheap looking and dramatically lifeless addition to the Superman franchise. The acting is abysmal, with especially awful performances from Brandon Routh as the hunky but totally uncharasmatic hero, and Kate Bosworth in a brain-numbingly vapid incarnation of Lois Lane.

Kevin Spacey fares a bit better as the nefarious Kryptonite hoarder Lex Luther, but the only real scene stealer on hand is Parker Posey. She plays the kinky-haired Kitty Kowalski, Lex's secretly softhearted partner in crime. I wish I could say her performance justifies the price of admission. But it just ain't so.

Stay at home and watch the Spiderman movies or Tim Burton's Batman films instead.