Review: Superman Returns :: Spoilers!!

In Superman II, Lois and Clark sleep together. In this movie Lois has a son, Jason, who is presumably five years old and who turns out to be Superman’s son. However, she is with another man, Richard, and apparently both he and Lois believe Jason to be Richard’s. Given that she doesn’t remember her tryst with Clark, that’s believable — except of course for the timing. She’d have had to have gotten over Superman really quickly to not know that Jason wasn’t Richard’s son. And Richard would have to be a moron, too. And if she did know that Jason is not Richard’s, who did she think the father was?

At the end of the movie, Lois seems to accept that Jason is Superman’s son without too much surprise. That’s a big leap considering that for all she knew, she never actually had sex with him. Okay, so maybe when Jason threw the piano across the room, the shock popped the memory block she had. I can believe that — except that it would mean she also knew that Superman and Clark are the same person. There’s nothing contradicting that in the movie, but I have a hard time believing they’re going to allow that memory to surface.

This isn’t really a spoiler, but I wonder if they’re going to address the fact that Superman no longer has any Kryptonian crystals, because they are now floating in space.

This is really a spoiler for the original movie, but it’s repeated in this one: Jor-El says that Clark will age more slowly than humans, however he seems to grow from a youth to an adult in the same timeframe as humans. I’d be able to work with that, though, if Jor-El hadn’t also said that by the time Clark heard the message, Krypton would have been destroyed for “thousands of your years,” implying that the trip from Krypton to Earth and the 13-18 years spent on the Kent farm was over a thousand years long. So it took him thousands of years to reach an apparent 6 or so year old size, and then he shot up into adulthood at a normal rate? That’s tough to swallow.