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DC Universe launches its new franchise to compete with Marvel. The question is whether you manage to offer something new in the superhero market.

Superhero films appear at the cinemas like lupines along the roadside. And there is nothing wrong with lupines in itself; Stutiful plants from America in brilliant color splendor. But it becomes monotonous in too large quantities.

Now Marvel’s superhero catalog has received competition from DC Universe rival ditto, which promised to expand the flora with a bunch of new films. First out is the premiere Superman (Superman).

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Old and familiar in new package

Superman, or Clark Kent as he is called wearing glasses, saw the light of day as a cartoon character as early as 1938. The new film, created by James Gunnis a so -called reboot of the previous films, that is, it is the same concept with new actors and action.

The basic premise and the characters are familiar since before: the steel man, played by David Corenswethas been sent from the planet Krypton to Earth to serve humanity.

The arch -enemy Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult), a pronounced wicked version of reality’s tech billionaires, has devoted its failing self-esteem to clearing away the steel man and taking unlimited power on the coup.

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In addition, we have reporter Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan) who has an on-off relationship with the film’s hero and also gets insum when the world is to be saved. Flank support is offered by other heroes from the DC directory: Mister Terrific (Edi gathegi), Green Lantern (Nathan Fillion), Hawkgirl (Isabela Merced) and metamorpho (Anthony Carrigan).

Yes, and then we should not forget the dog crypto, whose help proves to be invaluable to the Superman.

A mirror of our contemporary

The action takes off in the steel man preventing the fictional Eastern European Republic of Boravia from invading the neighboring state of Jarhanpur. For this, he gets to suck when Lex Luthor, who has found a way to take cabbage on the steel man, gives him a game.

It turns out that Lex Luthor’s company together with Boravia’s president, played by a delicious repulsive Zlatko Burichas joint lucrative plans in Jarhanpur that require both genocide and annexation of land.

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At the same time, Lex Luthor starts a campaign to throw away the Superman in public, partly through a magician and partly through regular participation in one of the country’s leading television channels. Luthor has even succeeded in sitting at the negotiating table with the country’s military leadership to convince them to replace the steel man with their security services.

In the midst of all this, the Superman and Lois Lane also try to come up with each other.

The parallels to our reality are many: suspicious alliances between tech billionaires and presidents, a divided public enforcement of social media and a foreign policy where the strong’s right to call for the weak is business as usual. And the battlefield of dating life does not forget: the difficulty in forming sustainable relationships.

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The steel man fixes everything

After all, there is not much to frown over. The escapist excavations are so many and crunchy, as well as the shortcuts in the story, that it is not worthwhile or for the part possible to stop and reflect. In addition, the humor is very central as most things happen with a glimpse in the eye.

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Although the Superman needs a lot of help to save the world, there is no doubt that this is the dream guy that has everything – and has everything under control. While rescuing the world, he also shows a try to take care of infants, socializing with the dog and having self -reflecting relationship calls. He is a mother -in -law’s dream with all the prerequisites to combine a career with a committed family life, if he so will.

But on the movie screen, it is still everyday life at work that goes first, with skyscrapers that fall like pine, fights, explosions and high -tech innovations wrapped in an audiovisual bang.

Do you succeed in attracting the audience to the bio darkness?

Based on the New Superman, it is doubtful whether DC Universe will offer something new to Uppsjön of superhero films. The undersigned may admit that the check over the genre is not comprehensive, but the steel man delivers safely according to the genre conventions: neat, large, escapist and a lot of action.

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You can see the genre as a temporary escape from a reality where the global villains right now seem to have taken over and where the lack of superheroes is illustrated by a toothless UN.

It remains to be seen to what extent the steel man manages to attract the audience to the dark cinemas in the middle of the summer heat. A fun detail in the movie is that the sun has a rehabilitative effect on the Superman. For the cinemas, beautiful summer weather is pure frame cryptonite, and there is a risk that people would rather choose to stay outside and pick lupines.