So we haven't had a Superman movie in well over 15 years and what do you know, Bryan Singer gets to direct it. I have a quote from him that I love to read over and over and over again. "God has given me the ability to create good movies, and I want to do it for his glory" – Bryan Singer

Singer is known for hiding Christian themes in his movies. So I anxiously awaited Superman. I knew the obvious parallel of Superman, Father sends son to earth, Son raised by poor parents as own, Son saves the world.

So when I went into Superman Returns my main objective was to find a Christian parallel that wasn't of the old Superman cliché. I couldn't do it. The only Christian parallel of Superman I could find was the obvious, Superman is the savior of the world.

But I was blown away by the truth that Bryan Singer captured. There is one scene in the movie without giving anything away that shows Superman above the world. This is beautiful and portrays God looking down on his creation; however that on its own is not enough for me to get the Holy goose bumps. It's what Bryan Singer added, to that scene, what Superman heard. Superman sitting on top of the world looking down in sadness hears all of the pain and suffering of the entire world at once. A giant melody of screaming, suffering and pain.

It reminded me of this church I went to while at bible camp two summers ago. When the deacons prayed over someone they all said their own individual prayer out loud at the same time. Its sounds like mumblings and unrecognizable but it reminded me of how God can hear and know everything all at once, and how we have no idea of his capabilities.

1st Corinthians 2:9(MSG) "No one's ever seen or heard anything like this, never so much as imagined anything quite like it—What God has arranged for those who love him."

I didn't just enjoy this movie because I was overwhelmed with Christian metaphors. I enjoyed it because it's everything summer movies are supposed to be. It's the first truly breathtaking movie of the summer. The action scenes are amazing, and although the special effects are not the most realistic, special effects don't make a movie good or bad anyway.

Kevin Spacey did such a wonderful job as Lex Luthor, it was so what Lex Luthor is and was. Luthor is jealous of Superman's powers just as Satan is jealous of God. In one instance one of Luther's minions calls him a god, and he shouts back, "I am not a god, gods run around in tights and a red cape refusing to share their powers with the rest of the world." Remind you of someone?

This movie was the only movie I have seen where people applauded. Scene after scene, a full theater shouted and yelled with victory, It could be because we were at the early 10pm showing on Tuesday night with a bunch of Superman fanboys but I am pretty sure that it was just because some scenes were so exciting you couldn't help but applaud.

Thank you Bryan Singer for not slipping into the Christian entertainment category of films, we Christians need good movies just as much as everyone else and you pretty much gave me enough Sunday School lessons for a whole year. Oh, and if you're ever in Newport News, Virginia give me a call-I know a great place for coffee.

I end with this, a line from the original Superman that is also used in the new. Superman's father Jor-El says, "Even though you've been raised as a human being you're not one of them. They can be a great people, Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you... my only son."