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Nick Grimshaw 

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Waiting for Superman...

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Dur dur dur dur dur, dur dur dur. The theme tune is one of the best and so is the superhero. Superman is back on movie screens after a break of 20 years, in Superman Returns. You must have seen at least one Superman film but what about his adventures on the page? The Man Of Steel has had a turbulent history

Hear the story behind DC Comics' most famous creation and the making of an American icon.

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DC Comics
Review of Superman Returns 
The stars of the film meet Colin & Edith

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Read what others have said..

Pete, Stanstead
Hey i think flying eagle superhero beats all of them, he is cool! and he is real!

Franco, Rosario
Aye! Sorry, Batman may be dark, but his motivation is kind of childish, in the sense that he can't get past the death of his parents, he's someone motivated by his anger, and that is kinda teenage-y. Superman in the other hand, is motivated by love (yeah, I know, it sounds kind of hippie, dosn't it?, but anyways), he dosn't want to see the people and the planet that he loves exploding or something. Love is a much more psychologically mature motivation than anger. Batman is also much more limitated, he operates almost exclusively in Gotham. You can't send him to other planets or universes or something. Also, the fact Superman is "too" strong can be seen as a good thing, 'cuz you can throw really big cosmic-level menaces at him. And "darkness" in superheroes is just a trend, and a quickly fading one at that. By the way, great Grant Morrison bits in the documentary.

Douglas W Aleksey; Maspeth NY
Superman is the ne plus ultra of superheroes, and the new film does him proud!

Dean, Plymouth
No way! Superman is anodyne. Batman is by far the coolest superhero. You need a little bit of darkness to be cool.

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