p>There are some things in life even the Man of Steel can’t overcome, like tepid box-office returns or indifferent audiences, both of which thwarted the astronomical expectations for Bryan Singer’s feverishly touted reboot of the ailing Superman franchise, “Superman Returns.” It wasn’t that Singer necessarily failed, so much as wrapped himself too tightly in the mythos of a character that arguably needed a start from scratch (
This article appears in Dec 6-12, 2006.