Tragedy, sex and superman

The reception from the audience was SAD. The theatre was almost empty, and those who occupied the seats had all caught Krrish… SO, all the comments from the backseats were centered around the possibility that Superman was totally inspired from Krrish… can’t believe they even got this insane idea, but they did. And even those self-proclaimed film critics were analyzing it like they were watching a Warhol flick (they wish!) and were laughing at all the iris bullet deflection by calling it worse than all the Mithun Chakobarty character’s normal human good guy abilities.



Not that the movie was great or anything… the FX was totally realistic, but nothing path breaking like the first flick. There were no signature SFX, but what was done was done pretty damn good.



The story goes something like this: Superman returns after a five year space journey to his home planet, to find things changed. His love has not lost interest, but has turned bitter and has moved on, engaged to a guy and won a Pulitzer for writing an article on why the world does not need superman. Superman and Kent get back to their world, Kent in the midst of Daily Planet, and Superman in the midst of bank robbers, rampaging cars and falling planes – no one notices the fact that they came back at the same time though. Lex Luthor, meanwhile, steals Superman technology from the temple of solitude and plans to sink America and make a crystal continent with superior technology and real estate to sell the world…



Superman, more than anything, looks lost for some reason… no conviction at all, and he hardly ever speaks. The nice sequences are when Superman gets bashed up by the baddies… because they own bits of his home planet that he is allergic to, and then gets rescued by Lois, and her son… and when the audience finds out that Lois’ kid is Superman’s too, and he kills ONE baddie with a piano (particular surge of Krrish jokes from the audience) and whenever Lex Luthor is on screen. He steals the show. They should make an anti-hero spinoff on him. He is a fucking cool baddie. There is a terribly long ending sequence, where Superman apparently dies. I have no clue what they would get out of claiming Jesus to be an alien though.



And I don’t agree to the whole “switch off your mobile phones in theatres” thing. When the movie got boring, these came to the rescue in the most wonderful ways. For example, Just when Lois came to visit the “dead” superman in the hospital, someone’s mobile screamed a ringtone of the “Tukhe dekha to yeh jaana sanam…” The audience freaked out.



And for the pleasure of those "ctitcs"