Comments on: Brandon Routh as Superman

By: Pat Murphy

Pat Murphy — Sun, 01 May 2005 03:56:39 +0000

He looks like a guy in a bad Superman costume. The overall look of the costume makes him look too long in the torso and too short in the legs. The briefs are way too brief and changing the classic round belt-buckle design is a mistake that for old time fans like me is border-line blasphemous! Why does the "S" shield have to be raised. The whole suit looks plastic which may be a marketing ploy to sell action figures, but I'll stick with the classic version from tv and the comics ... Ma Kent wove his action costume from the blue , red and yellow blankets that Kal-El was hastily wrapped in before being placed in his ROCKET not a star-shaped star-ship which was one of the deviations in the Chris Reeve movies that they are repeating again which I never liked in the first place. I'm sure all the gay boys will love this guy but he looks like a bit of a poofter to me , no offense meant, live and let live you know but I'm sure this will be the end of Superman. Superman belongs in bright primary colors. He is not a dark figure of the night like Batman. I'll wait to see it on free tv, if it's still around in 2007.Routh looks more like Jonathan Frakes than Chris Reeve or George Reeves. A nice looking boy, but no Superman.

By: ben

ben — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 01:27:30 +0000

Brandon looks terrific to me! Very solid and taut.....super indeed!!

By: kenny

kenny — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 08:57:25 +0000

" Uh Kenny just contradicted himself"

Really? How ?

As I said as a kid , my exposure to superman was limited to a very occasional cartoon on the telly.No film, no tv series, no comics etcs. Certainly nowhere near the fame that the character enjoyed in the US.

By: Janet

Janet — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 04:48:40 +0000

Uh Kenny just contradicted himself. But just so you know, that suit is padded, as the director has stated already. The guy is 180lbs. soaking wet, and 6'2, hardly enough to look very good in the suit. Which is why he doesn't. He looks like a wimpy, scuba-diver with a cape.

By: Ramblings' Journal

Ramblings' Journal — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 00:44:04 +0000

I'm ready to "believe again".... We finally get to see Brandon Routh as Kal-El in "the suit" today.Not bad - some might want more muscles, but what the hey. He's Superman.Costume designer Louise Mingenbach has made a few changes to the blue and red suit...

By: kenny

kenny — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 00:11:46 +0000

"surely, the role of Superman was famous long before Christopher Reeve"

Not that famous in the UK, though. As a kid growing up in the 70's, until the Reeves films were made, I was only vaguely aware that there was a superhero called superman, mainly due to the occasional cartoon shown on the telly.