I must say that I was thoroughly impressed with my viewing of Superman Returns this evening.  I can't say that my expectations were all that high going in, but even if they were, I would have still come out liking this movie a whole lot. 

Reviews that I read were throwing out a lot of mixed vibes on this movie, some heralding it as great, and others as poorly casted.  Most of the casting issues in reviews were centered around the young and somewhat cold Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane.   Personally, I thought she played a fine Lois Lane. However, even if she didn't, I don't think it could have detracted from this movie's enjoyment factor. 

In my opinion, the casting was superb.  Of course, the dynamic duo of Kevin Spacy as Lex Luthor and Parker Posey as Kitty was hilariously entertaining as I suspected.  I was truly surprised though at how well Brandon Routh (somewhat of an unknown) pulled off a compelling Clark Kent/Superman.  James Marsden (Cyclops of X-Men Movie fame) fit well into the movie as well, and portrayed a convincingly jealous/torn/understanding husband to a Lois Lane that had a history with Superman. 

Bryan Singer's previous big hits include The Usual Suspects and the first two X-Men Movies, all of which I really enjoyed.  One thing that I think this movie will ultimately have over his previous X-Men movies is more of a re-watchability factor, regardless of its long run time (2 hours and 40 minutes).  Also, as in his previous super hero movies, he has certainly left this one open for a nice big-fat-money-generating sequel.   All in all, I would say that this movie is worthy of summer blockbuster status, and thus worthy of its Wednesday commercial release.