July 8, 2025

Spoiler-Free Review: Superman (2025)

"Krypto... get the toy." The A Film By... gang is just leaving the theater, having seen an advanced screening of James Gunn's new Superman film. They've got a quick, SPOILER-FREE review to let you know whether you should see it, stream it, or skip...

"Krypto... get the toy."

The A Film By... gang is just leaving the theater, having seen an advanced screening of James Gunn's new Superman film. They've got a quick, SPOILER-FREE review to let you know whether you should see it, stream it, or skip it!

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You get more out of life when you go out

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to a movie.

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Hello everybody, and welcome back to the box office.

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It's a very special night.

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It's time to look up because we are just coming

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back from a sneak preview of James Gunn's Superman.

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Superman's not mass He's an it, I say in a

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stupid Appit gon a cocky quid and somehow become the

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focal point of the entire worldan I will destroy him.

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Your obsession with me is getting a little creepy.

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Guy, Hey, buddy eyes up here at eleven.

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I'm Jeff Johnson, joined by David Burns, Scott Hoffman, Amber Lewis,

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and Wayne Whited for the Film By podcast.

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We're going to give you a quick spoiler free review

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of the new Superman film. Is Superman Back?

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Superman is definitely back? DC has a hit.

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Yeah, I absolutely think so. I mean, this is it's

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putting Marvel in a kind of a tight spot. I mean,

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they've they've got a lot to live up to.

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Yes, I I'm not entirely sure how I feel about

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this movie. I'm still processing, but I definitely want to

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see it again. So that's a good sign.

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I agree as well, I think it was a fantastic

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film and definitely a great start for the DC universe.

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So first question, Dave, I'll start with let's talk about then. Yeah,

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we gotta be spoiler free here, but briefly, how is

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the chemistry between Clark and Lewis?

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It is fantastic. I didn't expect the chemistry that we

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got on screen between those two because I really didn't

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seen much until this movie, but yeah, it was dead on.

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Man.

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You believed the romance.

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You believe they care for one another, amber would you agree?

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Yeah, I thought that they really clicked together on the screen.

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There's a couple of scenes in particular that are just great,

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snappy dialogue, and I like where they are in their

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relationship at this point in the movie.

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Scott, in the history of cartoons, movies, TV, we've seen

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our fair share of good Lex Luthor performances and we've

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seen bad Lex Luthor performances.

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Your thoughts on Nicholas Holton.

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I think it's a redefine performance. I think he's raising

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the bar for who the character can be. You can

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see that he's definitely building on prior Alex's but making

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it his own. So I think he knocks out.

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Of the park.

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Wayne.

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One concern for a lot of people was the idea

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that this movie was gonna be a little bit bloated

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with meta humans.

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No, it wasn't very bloated. They were there, but very

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integrated to the story. It's very important to know that

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this is the start of a DC universe, so we're

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seeing the beginning of the story that we got ahead.

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The costume, the look of the costume, we've seen it,

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we've been We've been critical of it for months and months,

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but to see it on an Imax screen, those vivid colors, well,

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I think he's moving pretty good in the suit.

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What do you think?

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I'm Jerry's still out for me. I need to watch

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it again. But I did like the colors very much,

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and I like the new insignia.

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Dave. Your thoughts on the costume.

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You know, we talked about this for a while, Jeff,

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when we saw it for the first time, and we

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saw it on trailers and you know, and pictures, and

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we struggled with a little bit. But I'm telling you,

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I guess watching in trailers and stuff, I kind of

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got used to it because I lost looking at it

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throughout the film because it was so vibrant and so

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colorful that I liked it because corn sweet does has

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an incredible job as Superman that I believed it, and

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I was quite okay with the costume, Scott.

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I know we can't talk about surprises, of which there

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are several in this film, but let's talk. Let's talk

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about who stole the show? Like I'm gonna give you

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in my mind, there's there's two options. It's it's Guy

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Gardner or it's Crypto.

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Crypto. I think Guy Gardner shines in this one. He's

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gonna suppress a lot of people. But Crypto is going

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to give this something. I think it. One of the

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strengths of this movie is it has such broad appeal

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and broad reach. So I think a lot of people

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are gonna connect with Crypto in a lot of different ways.

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Amber, how badly are you wanting to pet Crypto roll

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around on the floor with him?

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Oh my god, Crypto is all the things.

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He's the gooddest.

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Boy, He's the best boy.

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Right, Wayne, You have given us so many amazing commentaries on.

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On film scores. What do you think of this? Uh?

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This music, the film.

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Score here, Like we're sitting we're heavily sampling John Williams.

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And that's a good thing, right it is.

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There's a there is a lot of use of John

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Williams's theme, which it should be, but John Murphy has

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put a lot of his own self. He's a great composer,

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and he has created an incredible score, integrating both Williams

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and his own themes perfectly together.

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Dave, I think the one hang up I have about

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the film is that it might be several days until

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we can see it again, because this is this doesn't

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come like we're what we're like, what three days away

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from uh a big, big opening day for it.

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Yeah, I'm dying go back and see this. How about you?

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I think when we were walking on a theater, I

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think I told you is I can't wait to see

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this again.

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Yeah, guys, we will tell you right now. Sit tight,

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stay through the entire credit sequence. We got some fun stuff, Scott.

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I have to believe you know. We're gonna ask a question.

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See it, stream it or skip it? What do you

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got for us?

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See it?

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Amber?

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Oh, see it many times.

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You have to see it in theaters.

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Definitely see it, you know, fly to the theater as

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soon as possible. See it on the biggest screen available.

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You will not be disappointed. Superman is back and this

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is a great launching point for James Gunn's new DCU.

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Would you agree, Dave, Absolutely it is. I cannot wait

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to see what he has in the future for us.

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Now, Dave, I know you and I are going to

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go back and see this on opening day.

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I'll tell you what. I'll buy the tickets and I'll

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buy the popcorn.