You can feel all of that behind-the-scenes chaos in the movie, which is weirdly about nuclear de-escalation and makes very little sense otherwise. At least Gene Hackman returned as Lex Luthor and some of the Nuclear Man stuff is fun.

The box office is blowing up, audiences are raving, and Superman looks like it’s going to be the mega-hit the DCU needs. I loved it.

Superman,” the newly rebooted comic book adventure starring David Corenswet as the Man of Steel, flew to $122 million in its first weekend of release. Those are strong ticket sales, enough to rank as the year’s third-largest debut after “A Minecraft Movie” ($162 million) and “Lilo & Stitch” ($146 million).