Superman Returns

The knot on Lex Luthor's necktie changes throughout his conversation with Lois on the boat.

When Lois is talking to Lex Luthor in the piano room on the boat, her engagement ring constantly moves from her ring finger to her middle finger between shots.

Lois and Perry talk in his office.

She hands him a draft of her "Superman Returns" piece.

In one shot Perry is reading the pages.

In the next shot, they are on his desk.

When Superman flies Lois back to the roof of The Daily Planet building, the camera is facing away from the building.

They spiral up and over the wall, and land with Superman on the right and Lois on the left.

The next shot is a reverse angle with the camera facing toward the building, but Superman and Lois have switched places.

As the yacht sinks and the room gets darker, you can see the shadow of a man to Lois's left.

Clark returns to the Daily Planet and talks to Jimmy.

Perry White calls Jimmy into his office.

Jimmy tells Clark he has to go, but he'll be back to check on him in a sec.

Jimmy turns toward Mr.

White's office to walk away.

In the next shot, Jimmy faces Clark again, then turns around again to walk away.

Between shots, the extras in the background disappear.

After Superman places the plane on the ground, the flight attendant's glasses go from crooked to straight and back between shots.

Perry White prepares two versions of the front page of The Daily Planet for Friday September 29th, 2006.

The camera zooms in on the one with the banner headline "SUPERMAN IS DEAD" and we see that the date is "Friday September, 29th 2006".

Note the misplaced comma.

When Lois and Clark leave the Daily Planet, the revolving door has 3 sides, leaving room for a steady-cam operator to go through.

Richard White's plane is a DeHavilland Beaver.

It has a radial piston engine, and therefore would not have the three horizontal exhaust pipes shown on either side of the plane's cowling.

Radial engines typically have one or two exhaust pipes on the bottom or side of the engine.

The exhaust pipes shown are consistent with V-type in-line engines.

Lois Lane would not yet be eligible for a Pulitzer prize.

They are awarded each year for outstanding achievements in the previous calendar year.

"Why the World Doesn't Need Superman" was published February 14, 2006.

The movie takes place in September 2006 (evidenced by the date of the mock "Superman Is Dead" edition).

When the police are stopping in front of the bank to confront the robbers, you can clearly see a white curved line on the road to show the stunt driver where to swerve and stop.

When Mrs.

Kent listens to a radio, the dial shows QLD and NSW, which are Australian states.

It also shows SM, CH, and UW, the call-signs of Sydney radio stations.

When Superman flies towards Luthor's new island, his x-ray vision shows the crack in the sea floor heading away from him along his flight path, towards the island.

When he turns back towards Metropolis, the crack is running towards the city.

The only place where cracks should be spreading in opposite directions is the island itself.

In the last scene, Superman flies away over a ferryboat toward a bridge.

The scene was shot in reverse; the boat is traveling backward, sucking in its own wake.

When Superman follows the initial fault line back to Metropolis, the "Metropolis Pier" sign is reversed.

Every time Richard White makes a radio call in his airplane, he starts with "November.

" All airplanes registered in the United States have an identification number that starts with N, which is November in the NATO alphabet.

However, domestic pilots making radio calls never say the N because it's redundant.

After Superman "saves" Kitty from the near car collision, he picks her up from under her knees to fly her to a hospital.

In the first cut, her skirt is up to her thigh, revealing the top of her stocking.

In the next shot, her skirt is down to her knee.

A massive tidal wave should have hit Metropolis when the island emerged from the ocean.

Water is forced away from the point of the new land mass.

Jimmy tells Clark that Luthor was freed from jail because Superman didn't appear when the Court of Appeals called him as a witness.

Court of Appeals rulings are based on the facts in evidence from the previous trial, and nothing else.

No new evidence or testimony is allowed.

During the bank robbery, the machine gunner connects the ammunition belt to the left side of the gun (to the viewer's right).

When he fires on the police in the street, a few seconds of footage are flipped, and the feed belt is to the viewer's left.

When the shuttle engine started, the airplane should have been destroyed.

The wings of a commercial airplane are not designed to stand supersonic speed.

However, the plane wouldn't immediately hit supersonic speeds.

Plus, with the two crafts connected as they were, it's possible they *never* would've hit supersonic speeds, just speeds far in excess of design specs.

Young Clark Kent wears glasses because of bad eyesight.

His powers first appeared around puberty.

The point of the childhood sequence was to show his amazement with his new powers.

If Krypton was completely destroyed, how did Supes get one of the Kryptonian suits (like the elders') that he's wearing when he crashes in the field by his childhood home as well as what appears to be another star-shaped ship like the one he crashed to Earth in as an infant? He probably got it from the Fortress of Solitude, or he built one using tech from the Fortress.

When the commercial plane falls to earth, the passenger seats are ripped from their fixings, and collapse into each other several times.

When Superman enters the plane, all the passengers are sitting in their seats, which are attached to the floor again.

Jason and Brutus play "Heart and Soul" in the key of C-sharp, but they aren't playing any sharps or flats (the black keys).

After saving the airplane, which is lying on the baseball field, Superman is still embracing the plane's nose, but he doesn't cast a shadow on the grass.

Right after Richard White tells Jason to get in the seaplane and get buckled in, he repositions the unconscious Lois to take her in.

As he does that, she swings her arm over his shoulders.

When Superman takes Lois flying, 'Brandon Routh' (qv)'s natural brown eyes are visible.

Brutus stops for a moment while walking to play the piano with Jason, so we can see the back of his head.

You can see a bit of the tattoo on the back of his head, but you couldn't see any of it before.

The time line of the movie does not match.

When Lex Luthor holds up the newspaper showing Superman's return after the plane rescue, the date of the newspaper reads Thursday, September 28, 2006.

The next day, when the TV sets of The Daily Planet show clips of Superman's rescues and stopped thefts since his return from space, there is footage of Superman stopping a robbery at a store and the date on the footage reads July 25th.

About two days later, when Perry White has the two Superman headlines to decide from after Superman has lapsed into a coma, the newspaper date reads Friday, September 29, 2006.

When Lois visits Superman at the hospital and closes the door to his room, reflections of the camera operator are visible in the window glass of the door.

When the plane is plummeting to earth, Lois Lane is forced to the ceiling of the plane, but her hair and name tag and dangle.

During the news reports, the German banner "Fensterputzer halten an ihrem Lebemfest" (Window cleaners hold on for their lives) is spelt wrong.

It should be "Fensterputzer halten an ihrem Leben fest.

" (This has been corrected to the latter phrase on the DVD/Blu-Ray Release) In the model train scene, the model ground that splits open is perfectly modeled to the sides of the crack.

With random breakage, you would expect the internal space to be hollow, with a wooden frame.

As Superman pushes the giant piece of earth into space and falls backwards his cape flutters in the wind.

There is no wind in space.

Also at the very end he is flying in space and his cape is fluttering.

When Lois and her son pull up to the Vanderworth building, the camera crew is visible in her car's passenger door reflection.

When Kitty is driving out of control she is suddenly picked up by Superman.

After this point the engine does not appear to be running and the car's wheels are stopped despite Kitty breaking the key off in the ignition.

When Kitty Kowalski is barreling down the streets in her car with no brakes, her tires keep on spinning, even after she yanks the keys out of it.

When Superman flies in to save her, he simply picks up her car in mid-air.

In the next shot, we see him setting her car on the ground carefully, and her tires have stopped spinning with no explanation as to why.

Outside Lex's inherited villa his henchmen arrive in a van riddled with holes.

The van used is a Ford Transit MK5 which was never produced in North America, the first Transit to be produced in North America was the MK6 in Mexico and the anticipated MK8 in the USA but production is not expected to begin until 2012.

The end credits list a "Post Poduction Cordinator" just before the music credits.

Inconsistencies with _Superman (1978)_ (qv), _Superman II (1980)_ (qv), _Superman III (1983)_ (qv), and _Superman IVThe Quest for Peace (1987)_ (qv) are not being counted as goofs.

'Bryan Singer' (qv) stated that _Superman Returns (2006)_ (qv) ignores the latter two film and is a loose sequel to the concepts of the first two, with chronology and other story details adjusted.

Therefore IMDB is treating this film as a separate entity.

- PLOTThe EMP burst that triggers the docking malfunction of the NASA shuttle to the plane shuts down all technology, including engines, phones, etc.

However, the microphone of the guide is still functioning perfectly.

The fans fill the baseball stadium and ballplayers are on the field as Superman descends with the airliner's nose in his grip.

When the camera points downward it shows a completely empty stadiumno fans and no ballplayers.

They all then reappear to cheer for Superman.

When Lex talks to Lois and Jason in the boat, she doesn't recognize Kitty Kowalski, who is standing elsewhere in that room, even after pointing out that Superman missed the bank robbery by saving her [referring to Kitty as "a hooker"] moments earlier in Perry's office.

- PLOTIt should not have been possible for Luthor to stab Superman with the Kryptonite.

Although Superman would have been weakened by the Kryptonite, it would not have affected the invulnerability of his suit.

When Lois is describing Superman she says he's 6'4" 125 pounds but she should have said 6'4" 225 pounds.

When Lex and his goons are beating up Superman on the recently raised island, there is mud and water splashing everywhere, yet none of their clothes, most notable Luthor's pristine white coat, get stained.

Immediately following the planting of the crystal/kryptonite seed, a cigar is dropped into the utility corridor and a natural gas line ruptures, the cigar ignites the natural gas.

In reality a cigar burns at around 400°F while natural gas ignites at around 1000°F, therefore the cigar could not possibly have ignited the natural gas flooding the corridor.

I must say that I'm a huge fan of the 70's superman films with Christopher Reeve. I was only a kid when these movies came out.

Why was this movie allowed to be so bad? Some films suck, but they didn't have much to work with so it's understandable.

In my opinion the casting of Brandon Routh as Superman is perfect. He has the same clumsiness as the late Christopher Reeve while playing Clark Kent and the same Superhero look while impersonating Superman.

S. Returds = Kryptonite for TRUE Superman fans.

Now I'll try say things as original as i can find them, but I have to agree with what everyone says is bad in this movie, and boy is there a lot. I'm a big fans of the man of steel by which I mean the comic book series, 90's superman was bad ass.

"Once in a while a great strip appears that sweeps into the life-blood of the nation by sheer rugged narrative power." Jerry Siegel, 1936 In the 1930's, a pair of shy awkward Jewish teenagers from Cleveland got into the habit of making comic books together.

This is more better than that. Under rated superhero flick.

Superman Returns is a film made by Bryan Singer, a director who had already made the film X-Men (2000), a film responsible for reviving the Live-Action superhero films and for saving Marvel, which until now had only terrible films, so it is understandable that the expectations for this film were high, however, this film disappointed.I personally was waiting for a movie at the same level as the Batman Begins (2005) movie, which was released a year earlier and that really managed to bring superhero films to a new level, making one of the best films ever done, and that should be taken as an example for DC Comics Studios and Warner Bros.

A bit like the King Kong remake, this got great reviews from the critics but didn't do great box office.Brandon Routh didn't bring much to the table when he wasn't impersonating Reeve.