Superman Returns: Superman Comes Back After Almost 30 Years

Starring Kate Bosworth (Blue Crush), Kevin Spacey (American Beauty, Seven), James Marsden (X-Men, X2), and unknown actor, Brandon Routh as the Man of Steel.

In continuing the saga of Superman after the second film, made back in 1979, director Bryan Singer (X-Men, X2, Usual Suspects) has given us a completely new and visceral look of the Man of Steel. He still believes in truth, justice, and the American way. But, Singer gives us dynamics the somewhat campy '70s films never could achieve. 

Superman left the people of the world, abandoning the two people he loved most, his human mother, Martha Kent (played by Eva Marie Saint), and the love of his life, Lois Lane (Bosworth). Where Martha Kent has been waiting for him to return, Lois Lane has moved on with her life in the 5 years since he left. She's had a child. She's planning to marry Richard White (James Marsden), and Superman finds himself alienated even moreso than when he left. 

On top of everything, Lex Luthor (Spacey) has been released from prison with a quest to destroy life and make a buck. Knowing Superman's home on Earth, Lex ventures to the ice castle, and steals several of the crystals left to Superman by his Krypton father, previously played by Marlon Brando. 

He tries to create a new continent of his own, thereby drowning billions of people on every other continent in the world, and sell land to the few desperate people left. As always, it seems a little ill-conceived for a man who is suppose to be so smart. And, like before, only one thing stands in his way - Superman.