Kate Bosworth and Brandon Routh

Kate Bosworth and Brandon Routh were on TRL yesterday promoting the Superman Returns. The movie has already made $21 million from midnight showings on Tuesday and yesterdays official opening day. This is the 8th highest Wednesday opening. Hopes are high for more records to be broken this holiday weekend when the movie will be shown in over 4,000 theaters. The IMAX will show Superman Returns in 3D, and that should be super cool.

Kurt Loder from MTV writes about Superman Returns:

Are there astonishing action scenes? Well, real astonishment — of the “How on earth did they do that?” variety — is in oddly short supply … But for all its visual felicities, the movie is curiously flat, largely because of the casting … Kate Bosworth [is problematic]. She may be more dewily pretty than Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane in the earlier pictures, but she lacks Kidder’s sparky humor — she’s not much fun. And given Bosworth’s age (she’s now 23), this Lois’s long flirtation with Superman would have had to begin when she was the only major metropolitan newspaper reporter in the country too young to drink or drive. Also inadequate is Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor … A lot of talented people have put a lot of work into this movie, and since its ending all but cries out for a sequel or three, they’ll probably have a chance to get it right the next time around (should they remain onboard). The bittersweet love story is interesting, but it remains to be seen whether the young action-movie audience — the people that studios count on to be repeat ticket-buyers — will find it all that addictive after an initial viewing.

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