Weekend at Fidel's

Now here's a movie I'd slap down $8.50 to go see (but I would smuggle in my own raisnettes, though).

BTW, I finallly went with neighbor Dennis to see Superman Returns the other night, and I have one word: underwhelmed.

Here's the review that I sent to DC Comics Scott below the fold (so to hide the spoilers):

reaction: kind of bloodless, kind of creepy, to be perfectly honest. bloodless: the world has changed too much since the original 1970s movie to do an homage to it like they did. they needed the "superman's been gone for 5 yrs" device so to create the whole "superman's kid" thing which i confess was a good plot twist, didn't really see that coming and like how they left it ambiguous until the very end. still, metropolis is always so clearly NY in a way that gotham is not, and 2006 minus 5 years.....leaves, where the fuck were you, superman? i'm not sure whether that was intentional or not, but that queered the deal with me, but also left me wondering how dc handled pearl harbor. i didn't like lois lane (too not terri hatcher, i guess which dates me). i also really didn't go far the really overt christalogical imagery, particularly of the christ off the cross image of superman falling back to earth, dead. i also thought the image of him, floating up in space, listening, was kind of creepy, in a post contact (jodie foster flick) sort of way. and don't even get me started on a big single guy with, well, i'm not going to comment on the super unit shorts, showing up in little boy's bedrooms while they're sleeping.....that was too weird for words. anyhoo, kind of creepy. i thought the relaunch of the batman last year was much better, mainly because the villains were done well. spacey was good, but doing too much of a hackman impersonation. i guess if you're going to have a post 9/11 superman flick you need a villain whose more of a villain, if that makes any sense.