Who needs kryptonite when the reviews are this bad? Woke Superman reboot is savaged in brutal early

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Who needs kryptonite when the reviews are this bad? Woke Superman reboot is savaged in brutal early review as hard-to-please critics brand new movie a 'convoluted mess'

Daily Mail
By JASON CHESTER
8 July 2025



Usually it's just kryptonite bringing Superman out in a rash, but early reviews of the latest instalment in the long-running film franchise suggest our lycra-clad hero has significantly more than green crystals to worry about.

The new film - directed by James Gunn and starring David Corenswet as the fictional superhero, with Rachel Brosnahan as precocious reporter Lois Lane - will go on general release from July 11.

But while it marks a new chapter in a franchise that began with the iconic Christopher Reeve in Richard Donner's well received 1978 classic Superman: The Movie, a faction of early reviews suggest some critics are already longing for it to end.

One such review, published by the Daily Beast some five days before strict press embargoes had been lifted, didn't hold back in its negative assessment of the film.

In an extensive critique that has since been removed online, the publication condemned Gunn's latest offering as 'the Final Nail in the Grave for the Superhero Genre.'

Moot points include a convoluted, humourless script, poor character development and a plot filled with 'fanciful nonsense that soon renders the entire affair superficial and silly.'

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I took one look at him and knew this wasn't for me. My Superman would never wear a look like that on his face when looking at his fans!

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All the 'superheroes' of the 1900s wore their underwear on the outside.
I wonder why the writers and artists thought this fetish was 'cool'?