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The problem for DC is that Marvel drank the Kool Aid and lightened up. Their films are light, loose and bright; pop art nuggets. DC, meanwhile, are still struggling to shake off the impact Alan Moore and Frank Miller had on their comics in the late Eighties with their vision for grown-up comics (as much an oxymoron as “a serious superhero movie”). Moore and Miller’s proposition of superheroes as psychologically complex, Nietzschean Übermensch battling both themselves and their own inner demons in dystopian cityscapes trickled down to first Tim Burton and then Nolan’s Batman films. It plateaued with Nolan’s last Batman film – the pretentious, po-faced and deeply boring The Dark Knight Rises.

The early scenes on Earth are the best thing in the film. We meet Kal-El – now Clark Kent (Henry Cavill) – as an introspective, thirtysomething drifter, working hand-to-mouth on jobs in trawler boats, in bars, scuffing round the remotest fringes of America. It reminds me a little of The Incredible Hulk TV series, where David Banner would similarly drift from one dead-end job to another until he found himself in positions where he helps others in need despite his secret. There’s a nice intimacy here, helped in flashback by some good work from Kevin Costner as Clark’s adoptive father...

Buildings are trashed, trucks are thrown, a city is almost leveled. Snyder spends the best part of an hour on this section, buffeted along by Zimmer’s increasingly bombastic score and an increasingly unhinged barrage of CGI devastation.

He [Henry Cavill] has little chemistry with Amy Adams, given an underwritten role as Lois Lane, and nowhere near as freewheeling as Margot Kidder’s version. Kevin Costner is arguably the best actor in the film, bringing humanity and lightness of touch to his part that is sorely needed elsewhere.

Anyone heard the score yet? I'm not feeling the love so far.

Another Scottish laddie... or are you a lassie? Anyway, welcome to the jungle.

Welcome guys!

PorridgeGun, your list of favorite films includes The Thin Red Line and Mr. Baseball, and the list of TV shows includes Twin Peaks and Jackass. For this, you are already awesome. That is all.

(Also, your list of TV shows makes me long for a show that combines Breaking Bad and Black Adder. It would be cerebral show that follows a long line of British meth cooks in their misadventures through the ages. With a laugh track.)