Review: "Man of Steel"

The granddaddy of comic book super heroes is back on the big screen in director Zack Snyder's Man of Steel, starring Henry Cavill as the last son of Krypton. After 75 years of history with the character, we all know the basic story: Sent from his dying home world as a baby, Kal-El crash lands in Kansas and is raised under the Earth name Clark by farmers Jonathan and Martha Kent. As an adult, Clark goes to work for the Daily Planet in the great city of Metropolis, where he falls for plucky Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Lois Lane, and defends humanity as "Superman." While this incarnation hews closely to that, the film stands confidently as a singular new vision for modern moviegoers.