Early reviews of “Man of Steel” aren’t very encouraging. At this writing there are 40 published at Rotten Tomatoes, 28 Fresh and 12 Rotten. Not enough for a consensus, but it looks like this one may be heading to the ‘watch on DVD’ category for me.
Very disappointing - I had heard that the early buzz was very positive. It is worrying that so many reviews are only so so. It’s moments like this where I really miss Roger Ebert. I loved reading his reviews and he always seemed fair about reviewing movies as they were representative of their genre
Like I said in another post, the negative reviews seem to mostly be ‘it isn’t whimsical 1978 Supes’.
From one of the reviews:
*“There are moments where Man Of Steel feels too earnest, too in thrall to the gravity of its own mythology. And then Superman punches Zod through a city block and all is forgiven.”
*
I still think I’ll be seeing it.
That’s all I really wanted, anyway. 
I’m off to see it in Imax in a couple of days. I had no interest in it at all, following the mess of Superman Returns, but the trailers have definitely piqued my interest.
I’m very interested to see how the tone of this movie plays, seeing as its supposed to be a pre-cursor to a potential Justice League and further Batman movies. For me, Marvel have got the tone spot-on with their stuff, but I think DC have struggled with it in the past. The Burton movies are like live action cartoons, and the Chris Nolan ones, although quite enjoyable, don’t quite work.
Batman within the context of the larger DC universe makes sense, because to the average man in the street, he is super powered. They don’t know that he uses gadgets and lots of training, they just seem him doing amazing things all the time.
This only really works in a universe where superpowers already exist. In the real world, he is just a guy wearing a rubber suit. A resourceful guy in a rubber suit, but still just a guy in a rubber suit. In Nolan’s universe, there is no way that Gordon or Dent would be seen dead talking to him.
The next Batman film will need to fit somewhere between these Burton and Nolan, if he is going to co-exist with Superman. From the trailers, it looks like Man of Steel is trying to be more real world than Marvel, but this might be where it falls down.