Get to Robinson Film Center to see Superman faster than a speeding bullet. This movie is BIG!

The fight scenes are big. The explosions are big. The jokes are big. The cameos are big (Bradley Cooper). Heck, at 6-foot-4, Superman himself (David Corenswet) is big!

On the surface, this Superman film has all the earmarks of a classic comic book superhero story. Lex Luthor (played by Nicholas Hoult) is dead-set on eliminating Superman and world domination. But there is a layer below the surface that you wouldn’t find in a classic DC comic.

Superman is a lot less, well, super in this movie. He’s got relationship issues. He’s stuck watching his cousin’s ill-mannered dog Krypto while she’s out partying. He’s battling a smear campaign that’s turned Metropolis against him.

The Man of Steel begins to struggle with his identity in this movie. But a quick visit with his human parents reminds him who he really is. As an aside, Pa Kent is played by Pruitt Taylor Vince, who has worked with a number of Shreveport filmmakers.

With a renewed sense of who he his, Superman returns to the fray, determined to save humanity once again.

In the end, good triumphs over evil. It is a superhero movie, after all. But the message behind Superman is that you don’t have to be super to be heroic, as long as you know who you really are.

- Scott “Scooter” Anderson, Scooter Anderson Communications