Rated PG-13

Running Time: 129 minutes

RT Score: 87% through 93 reviews

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/superman_2025


Metacritic: 71

https://www.metacritic.com/movie/superman-2025/


LA premiere is tonight

Amazon Prime early screening start tomorrow

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If you can't see the movie right away and want to talk non-plot, non-review related topics, this is the thread:

Pre-release discussion

Please keep reviews and plot related talk here.



Wide release starts Thursday

The review embargo ends tonight at Midnight ET


I'm planning to see it Thursday afternoon in Dolby


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RT score and Metacritic score have been updated as of today 7/8/25

I'm sure it will adjust after more reviews come in, but you get a good idea.

And it has been confirmed there are 2 extra scenes. One mid-credits and one post-credits.

Snarky Jay loved Corenswet as Superman and most of the cast, but found the movie frustratingly mediocre. First half of her review is spoiler free, then she goes into a full plot breakdown.

Dan Murrell, who I think is a solid film critic, didn’t like it either.

The RT score is about 86% right now. 8.6 people out of every 10 reviews liked it is a pretty solid number. Far better reviews than dark and gloomy Superman.

Man of Steel was under 60%, Batman v Superman was under 30. Justice League was 39. The Snyder Cut was 71.

Has the same meta score as Superman Returns which in my opinion was the least entertaining Superman movie ever made. The others despite their flaws are fun to watch.

EDIT: after seeing this I’d rank the films

Superman II
Superman
Superman 2025
Snyders Justice League
Man of Steel
Batman v. Superman Directors Cut
Superman III
Superman Returns (least entertaining but still technically solid)
Superman IV (I’d love to see the original cut that tested well before having an hour cut)
Whedon’s Justice League

What's rather troubling is that reportedly the late edits and reshoots were to town down the humor.

Just finished. I loved it. It was everything I wanted and more.

I hope this makes a ton of money because I want to see more. So much better than the Snyder verse.

I was having some similar thoughts about the comparisons Dan Murrell drew between this and the Snyder films. Namely Superman being viewed as a dangerous alien again and too much happening around building the universe right up front.

I also worry a bit about being thrown right into this version of not only Superman but essentially DC. It can work to have a pre-existing universe such as The Batman, but in that case the movie should really just focus on the main character and not add a bunch of side stuff in.

Still hoping it’s good but I feel like this might be a bit of a stumble right out of the gate.

Absolutely loved it. Not a five-star masterpiece but it doesn't need to be; it's really fucking great. 4 out of 5. Crowd ate it up. People were laughing and cheering.

Yeah you don't need to worry about that.

Meh, I thought it was ok, not great. In an attempt to avoid the grim and gritty Snyderverse, they may have swung too far in the opposite direction.

Is Jimmy Olson gay? Why would he be so turned off by Eve Teschmacher?

And they really need to give Lex Luthor a rest.

No. As seen in a Daily Planet scene and Lois comments, Jimmy has a bunch of women interested in him and he finds Eve annoying. And she has ugly feet.

Just came back from a packed theater. People cheered, laughed, applauded. Plenty of little kids in the audience. Noisy at first, but silent and engaged through out the movie. There are pre, mid, and post scenes. Highly recommended!

Is 100 percent not a stumble.


Because she is a top tier wack job clinger. #NoThanks

I loved this so much. I can’t wait to see it again with my kids this weekend.

i got home and put on the All Star Superman animated movie to tide me over.

I genuinely fucking hate Superman as a comic character post 90s but this was legit a solid movie. Clunky second act and maybe a bit too much humor but it works. Hoult is a mediocre Luthor but Guy Gardner and Mr. Terrific are so wonderful I want a JLI movie asap.


Lastly, really loved they kept
a major secret throughout marketing.

a solid A from me.

My son at the movie yesterday.

Is you son Jamie Madrox?


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Seeing it tomorrow!!!

Not according to his birth certificate.
For his review, he loved the movie.

did anyone see this in 3D? I'm thinking about it, but not sure. please pm with answer as i don't want to look in this thread. thank you so much in advance.

I mean, you can just #lookdown

Just refreshing and fun. Is it flawless? No, but it's a heck of a good time I thought and the first Superman movie since Superman II a million years ago that I haven't felt vaguely disappointed by in some way. Really hope it does well at the box office and grimdark Snyderverse superheroics fade away.

Luthor obtains a strand of Clark's hair, resulting in the creation of a dumb superpowered villain. Haven't we seen that before?



It all comes down to tone... and for me, I didn't enjoy the take on many of these characters: Elon Luthor and his bot farm run by literal monkeys, sloppy drunk party girl Kara, Instagram Eve Teschmacher... Superman repeatedly saying "Dude". Maybe it's superhero movie fatigue, but a lot of the action set pieces were pretty tedious. Didn't care for The Engineer. With her boxer braids, she was giving MMA fighter... and all that black goo nanotech crap looks stale as hell after sitting through umpteen Terminator and Venom movies. Almost as played out as shooting a giant blue laser beam into the sky. For a single movie, there are too many scenes of Superman being weakened and having to retreat to make a recovery (at least three by my count).

I guess the dynamic between Corenswet and Brosnahan was an improvement over Cavill and Adams in the Snyderverse... but the dialogue could be overly quippy (in a more grating way than Joss Whedon) and their performances (while competent) made it feel like I was watching a random episode of a less than stellar HBO Max show. That's also the vibe the whole Daily Planet and Justice Gang crews were giving.. and none of those shows would have gotten a season pass from me. Also, I wasn't expecting Ma & Pa Kettle Kent to talk that country. I read Gunn wanted them to sound like the voicemails from Richard Christy's parents they used to play on The Howard Stern Show. The talk about the burrito restaurant was likely a nod to Richard's love of Taco Tico, the subject of one of his father's voicemails.

At least this time he didn't cut the Hair off a giant hanging ball with wire cutters.