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We went to the drive-in on a perfect summer night, which is always an experience in and of itself. They lean into the retro, the graphics pure 1957 and ambient music pre-1980. We watched kids clamber in the playland under the screen and the sunset to our left, just before the projector started. Trailers included one for the 50^th Anniversary return of Jaws to the big screen. I might have to see that.

And Superman, another piece of the past fighting to remain part of the culture.

While the movie did not quite live up to the trailer, they have the right actors, an understanding of who these characters are, and enough very good things to make it worth seeing. It remains cluttered and chaotic. The mess becomes a problem at times, but it comes the closest a movie ever has to the experience of finding an old comic when you were a kid and encountering guest appearances by characters you didn’t know and perhaps a part one in the previous issue that you didn’t read, but you just kind of went, "oh, this is cool!" The movie recreates that well enough, and it shows what the default DCU would look like. Whether that’s the best choice for a movie remains an open question, but I prefer it to the gloomy Murderverse that Zack Snyder created.

And for all the complaints about clutter, the nascent Justice League in this movie is one of the most entertaining things in it. At that point, I settled in for the ride entirely.

A certain guest-hero is Terrific, and the much-spoilered cameo near the end made us both anticipate the next film. Whether this incarnation of the DCCU will last any longer than the previous one remains an open question at present.

As for charges (good faith and otherwise. I'm looking at you, MAGA-media and the more fanatical Snyderbros) that the film is anti-Israeli/anti-semitic, the foreign war that features into the plot features (1) a long-standing DC fictional country that serves here as a generic stand-in for the kind of global chaos that would challenge the ethics of superheroes, if they existed, (2) an unprovoked invasion that far more closely resembles the Russia/Ukraine situation, and (3) Spoiler-not-really-a-spoiler the involvement of a certain arch-enemy of Superman's.

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JD DeLuzio July 23, 2025 at 9:30am

We went to the drive-in on a perfect summer night, which is always an experience in and of itself. They lean into the retro, the graphics pure 1957 and ambient music pre-1980. We watched kids clamber in the playland under the screen and the sunset to our left, just before the projector started. Trailers included one for the 50^th Anniversary return of Jaws to the big screen. I might have to see that.

And Superman, another piece of the past fighting to remain part of the culture.

While the movie did not quite live up to the trailer, they have the right actors, an understanding of who these characters are, and enough very good things to make it worth seeing. It remains cluttered and chaotic. The mess becomes a problem at times, but it comes the closest a movie ever has to the experience of finding an old comic when you were a kid and encountering guest appearances by characters you didn’t know and perhaps a part one in the previous issue that you didn’t read, but you just kind of went, "oh, this is cool!" The movie recreates that well enough, and it shows what the default DCU would look like. Whether that’s the best choice for a movie remains an open question, but I prefer it to the gloomy Murderverse that Zack Snyder created.

And for all the complaints about clutter, the nascent Justice League in this movie is one of the most entertaining things in it. At that point, I settled in for the ride entirely.

A certain guest-hero is Terrific, and the much-spoilered cameo near the end made us both anticipate the next film. Whether this incarnation of the DCCU will last any longer than the previous one remains an open question at present.

As for charges (good faith and otherwise. I'm looking at you, MAGA-media and the more fanatical Snyderbros) that the film is anti-Israeli/anti-semitic, the foreign war that features into the plot features (1) a long-standing DC fictional country that serves here as a generic stand-in for the kind of global chaos that would challenge the ethics of superheroes, if they existed, (2) an unprovoked invasion that far more closely resembles the Russia/Ukraine situation, and (3) Spoiler-not-really-a-spoiler the involvement of a certain arch-enemy of Superman's.

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