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‘Superman’ Review: James Gunn’s Energized Reboot Is Winning Enough to Channel the Spirit of the Comics
David Corenswet's slightly puppyish Superman radiates a joy in what he's doing, but he’s far from invincible. That lends the film emotional stakes.
“Superman,” however, is also dedicated to treating the Man of Steel as what he was in the comics and the first two Christopher Reeve films: a majestic force of good, yet one who’s stalwart but vulnerable, superhuman but touchingly humane, alive with internal struggle. Working in a jam-packed effusive way, Gunn doesn’t rehash Superman’s backstory (though there’s a moving moment with his adoptive father, played by Pruitt Taylor Vince), and he enmeshes the character in more global complication than we’re used to. Though still the rock star of superheroes, Superman is now competing with other “metahumans,” notably the Justice Gang, whose members include Nathan Fillion’s combative Green Lantern, Isabel Merced’s razor-disc-tossing Hawkgirl, and Edi Gathegi’s furious and merciless Mister Terrific.
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