Superman Returns -

When the gleaming, S-shielded spacecraft re-enters Earth’s atmosphere, he returns not to a parade, but to a quiet memorial. The world has moved on. Lois Lane, the woman who once made his heart beat faster than a speeding bullet, has a Pulitzer Prize, a fiancé (the nephew of his old foe Perry White), and a young son named Jason. The “greatest threat” the Daily Planet warned of has faded into myth.

Superman Returns is less a sequel and more a requiem. It asks: what does it mean to be a hero in a world that has learned to live without one? The answer, delivered through Brandon Routh’s aching, noble silence and a single, earth-shaking act of selflessness, is that some burdens are chosen, not given. He returns not for gratitude, but because the sound of a single human heartbeat is worth more than all the crystals of Krypton. Superman Returns

But a new danger is rising from the ashes of Lex Luthor’s last scheme. Having inherited a fortune from a deceased socialite, Luthor has abandoned real estate fraud for a more apocalyptic vision. Armed with Kryptonian crystals—the very technology that powered the Fortress of Solitude—he plans to create a new continent in the North Atlantic. A landmass of raw, crystalline Kryptonite that will destroy America’s eastern seaboard and, with it, billions of lives. His goal is not just profit, but revenge on a planet that mocked him. The “greatest threat” the Daily Planet warned of