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• Title: Superman Returns
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What’s with Hollywood and rubberized super hero suits?  Is there some kind of run on cloth?  Did they buy it all in bulk a few years ago and have to use it all up before buying something new?  Anyway…

Superman Returns isn’t a great super hero flick, but it does have charm and heart which left me happy, though not ecstatic, with the outcome.  Given its similarities, it’s impossible to not compare it to Donner’s original, and find it wanting.  Still, in a summer that’s given us X-Men: The Last Stand and Nacho Libre this Superman looks damn good.

Five years ago (sometime not long after the events of Superman II) Earth’s scientists found the remains of Krypton and, without saying his goodbyes, Superman left his adopted home.  As the movie opens Superman (Brandon Routh) crashes back to Earth on the Kent farm.  After a brief talk with Ma Kent (Eva Marie Saint – very nice casting choice!) Clark returns to Metropolis and his life as a reporter for the Daily Planet.

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• Title: Hoodwinked
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Hoodwinked nice family film that adults will probably like more than children as Granny’s house is roped off and the cops try to find out what is really going on in the forest, who’s at fault for the domestic disturbance, and if any one of those present might know something about the Goody Bandit.

The story begins with Little Red Riding Hood’s (Anne Hathaway) trip to Grandma’s (Glenn Close) house.  The cops arrive and surround the house with the Wolf (Patrick Warburton) dressed in Grandma’s clothes, the Woodsman (Jim Belushi) screaming and swinging his axe around, and Grandma tied up in the closet.  Det. Nicky Flippers (David Ogden Stiers) is on the scene investigate the domestic disturbance and to solve the mystery of the Goody Bandit who is stealing recipes.  What do the two cases have in common?  More than you might originally assume.

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