Well that pretty much sucked.
With it being James Gun I went into it expecting a more lighthearted tone, but this straight up felt like it was written as a cartoon.
I know it's a weird comparison but it went into the territory of why I think live action anime adaptations usually don't work, because often times the characters, events and writing that work in animated format just feels awkward, unrelatable and cringy if you try to translate them 1:1 into live action.
That's the feeling I got from this. Not only in the way the characters are written and the ridiculous story beats and developments that are too extensive to mention here, but also in a lot of smaller elements that add up like how crowds react to the city being attacked by a giant monster, the way the Kent parents are portrayed as "simpletons" in such an exaggerated manner they come across as mentally challenged, to how the invasion of a country is literally portrayed as a few tanks and soldiers smashing a wired fence and advancing in on a scruffy looking, ethnically diverse but ambiguous group of men, women and children holding sticks and stones.
I'm not opposed to a more lighthearted take on Superman, but I think it should at least be grounded in some sense of reality, while this just felt like cartoon characters doing cartoony things in a cartoony world.
My one positive take is that I thought the cast was pretty good. Everyone seems to be doing the best they can with what they are given, and I could see a better written Superman movie working with many of these actors.
