Superman (2025), I Don't See What the Fans are Criticizing
The criticisms for Superman (2025) started from the very first day the slightest glimpse into it was seen. People didn't even give it a chance 🤣. But at least they were all ready to watch the heck out of it.
The very first criticism was the change of Superman. Everyone has fell deeply in love with Henry Cavil, including me! He was the kinda guy that seemed to have been born for the role of Superman. No other Superman had looked that good, charming, hot, and the kind of guy you'd look at and say "yeah that is Superman". He was just that guy.
David Corenswet on the other hand was looking some type of way in the Trailer.
The next criticism was about why DC was starting all over again with their Universe, many thought everything was already going well with the DC universe so far, they had made Man of Steel, Superman vs Batman, Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman, etc. Even though Marvel was doing better, it didn't look broken and in need of fixing, so why the sudden change? We thought everything was building up to further fun stuff.
The the third biggest Criticism was that this new Superman was weak! Why did he flinch when a can or something was thrown at him by the crowd? Why was he beaten so badly he needed Krypto's help? Why did he seem defeated?
Then the movie came out this year and it was the same thing, they didn't see anything to make them change their minds about the former criticisms they had. But I just watched Superman (2025) and
I'm more inclined to criticize the critics.
• David Corenswet also makes a great Superman. He's a handsome hot dude too, tall and with a great chin/jawline. He looks very much like Cavil, even.
It was just missing a shirtless scene to convince the crowd further.
On the Trailer I didn't think he was a great Superman either, but when I saw other photos of him he looked great and I wondered why he wasn't looking that great in the trailer. But after watching the movie I saw he actually looked as good as his other photos and stuff showed.
• I have nothing to reply to the critics on the matter of why they had to start all over again. I'm not happy they had to start all over again, all the progress with Affleck, Gadot and Cavil being thrown away still feels painful for me. I think their reasons would definitely be financial rather than creative.
I think paying those huge stars for further movies were going to be too exorbitant. Also I think they want to take advantage of the fact that Marvel is not really making waves currently. After End Game Marvel has kinda been in decline, and DC wants to take the spot and they think this is a great way to take that spot, by starting all over again and getting all the attention.
• The weakness of Superman is another big deal with the critics, the biggest deal of them all. I agree Superman was weaker here, but that was kinda due to great writing. Stay with me here. The Hammer of Boravia that beat Superman in the beginning was a great villain. He was being controlled by a team, a team that had researched all Superman's moves from years of fights, and putting up the perfect defences and all. It makes perfect sense that a villain like this would beat Superman. At least it didn't beat him to death.
The big giant frog was kinda worthy because of it's size but it wasn't convincing. It was quite a shame to see Superman struggle against him. It seemed he couldn't do anything whatsoever of not for the "Justice Gang". The fans know Superman is supposed to be too strong for all that, a display of strength here was kinda badly needed.
The clone of Superman was a great villain, that's for sure. Superman vs Superman.
The other villain called "The Engineer" was a worthy one too. She could manipulate matter in every crazy way, it made sense that she was hard to beat. She couldn't be beaten with brute force and power, Superman had to come up with something smart, and he did, and it worked.
My conclusion on this matter is we needed to see more show of strength and power from Superman, though, and we didn't see enough. That doesn't ruin the movie, though, but I agree it was disappointing for the fans. Hopefully subsequent installments would take care of this.
The End
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Henry cavil would have made it more exciting and interesting to watch.
I haven't seen this movie yet but people were talking a lot about it but as you said I will try to watch it soon.
Aside from the Lois & Clark Series & Smallville when I was younger, I never really had a thing for Superman movies as the originals came way before my time and the newer ones didn't really do it for me. I'm still feeling like watching the new one though as I could use some totally mindless entertainment blockbuster.
It sounds good in your review. I enjoyed the fact that you dissected the criticism of the movie and figured out why it works with the new Superman. It is nice to find a view that analyzes the writing, the villains and the plot as opposed to making comparisons between actors. This is interesting enough to make me want to watch it to decide it by myself.