Some scattered thoughts:
- I didn’t realize, until I read some reviews online, that this movie was… politically divisive. (Sigh. Can we please not polarize everything? Or is it already too late?)
- You may love dogs in spite of what they destroy, but me? I don’t want anything to do with such agents of chaos. That being said, Krypto was a pretty convincing CGI dog. (And has nothing to do with cryptocurrency.)
- I found it distracting that Lex Luthor had so many supporters who were emotionally invested in his success. I wanted the movie to reveal their motivation. (It didn’t.)
- It took me a while to recognize Nathan Fillion. (Green Lantern’s haircut truly is awful.) I didn’t recognize Alan Tudyk. (He voiced a robot.)
- Hawk Girl (played by Isabela Merced) reminded me of the character Skye (played by Chloe Bennet) in Agents of Shield.
- In the positive column: someone on the CGI team must have been familiar with bismuth crystals! They’re gorgeous.
- The fight scene at the site of the entrance to the pocket universe was a lot of fun.
- The best aspect of the movie might be the theme: you are not your destiny, as determined by your blood or your parents’ wishes; you are who you choose to be. Whatever else is going on in the movie, it does uphold that theme.
It was really weird seeing different actors for Superman/Clark, Lois, Jimmy, Perry White, and Clark’s parents, because I’ve been watching the 1990s Lois and Clark TV series. That show belongs to a completely different era. (I like the show better than this movie. No contest.)
