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Superman has returned, but does the world want him? As the American way faces increasing scepticism, the original superhero confronts his biggest battle yet - to be relevant.

AFTER AN EXTENDED absence, Superman is back, but even Lois Lane is unimpressed. "The world doesn't need a saviour," she says in Superman Returns, the Man of Steel's first film in almost 20 years. "And neither do I."

In the new film, Superman has been away from Metropolis for only six years, but Lane has moved on with her life. She's won a Pulitzer, she's in a relationship, she's given birth. Her chesty, cheesy beau's disappearance hurt this career-minded alpha female so badly that she was spurred to write an article for The Daily Planet entitled: "Does The World Need Superman?"

It's a valid question. Superman's values of "truth, justice and the American way" resonated during World War II and the Cold War, but sound arrogant and unilateral in the wake of two Iraq wars. His superpowers seem old-fashioned and simplistic in an age when the misunderstood mutants of X-Men perfectly embody the Zeitgeist. The 68-year-old Superman has X-ray vision; X-Men's Rogue absorbs the memories and life force of anyone she touches.

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http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/back-on-a-...9964663095.html

image:The new version of the superhero, played by Brandon Routh.

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Word on the street is that Superman soars! I'm definitely gonna check it out. Newsweek has given it a rave review, and Todd McCarthy, the lead critic for Variety, and a tough one at that, gives the movie his highest praises:

Why the World Doesn't Need Superman" reads the title of a piece that wins Lois Lane the Pulitzer Prize in "Superman Returns," the latest bigscreen revival of comicdom's strongest and fastest hero. Not only is she wrong in the context of the story (not to mention real life), but she'll be wrong in the court of public opinion once the world gets a look at this most grandly conceived and sensitively drawn Superman saga. Sure to rate with aficionados alongside "Spider-Man 2" and, for many, "Batman Begins" on the short list of best superhero spectaculars, pic more than justifies director Bryan Singer's decision to jump ship from the "X-Men" franchise, and will pull down stratospheric B.O. around the globe.

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Critics wowed by Superman return

The first reviews for Superman Returns have given the new movie, which stars newcomer Brandon Routh as the legendary superhero, a resounding thumbs up

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Time Warner pinning hopes on Superman.......

Superman returns to the big screen after a long hiatus this week. Will investors come back to Time Warner?

Time Warner shares rose more than 1 per cent on Monday, with some investors who attended early screenings of "Superman Returns" saying the Man of Steel could put a new shine on a company that has seen its stock sputter since talk of a breakup subsided earlier this year.

But others say they are looking for much more than just one hit after the US$160 million ($269 million) maritime disaster movie "Poseidon" flopped at US box offices in the spring, netting only US$20.3 million in its first weekend.

"Superman is not coming to save the day for Time Warner," said Richard Steinberg of money management firm Steinberg Global Asset Management, which owned 19,000 shares of Time Warner stock as of March 31.

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.c...jectid=10388569

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