I saw Superman 2025: a rant:

 First, let me preface this rant with the following:

• Superman is NOT my favorite Superhero. He set the standard.
• While I enjoyed SOME of the DCEU, for the most part, I found it lacking. (Horribly butchering characters, making a deconstruction of Superman for the sake of world building, making Superman an antagonist/corpse for most of the story, among other things... the Pizza cutter vision of Hack Snydurr)
• While, I do think that James Gunn is a much better director than Zack Snyder, he's not on my top 10 Comic Book movie directors. Steve Barron, Sam Raimi, Richard Donner, Oley Sassone is not on the list, due to his F4 (wrongfully attributed to Roger Corman) not having an official release. Gunn sits currently a few spots beneath Joss Whedon.
• Aside the first teaser, I tried to avoid stuff regarding the movie, in order to see it without any preconceived ideas/expectations other than "please don't suck, because I want both Marvel and DC to thrive."

It's not going to be a play by play, but there will be Spoilers. So I'd recommend you watch the movie first, before reading.

Spoiler free mini review:

It was better than expected. Not a perfect movie, but an enjoyable one. It does many things MUCH better than Snyder, but other things are a bit cringe. 8.3 is what I'd give it in a 1-10 scale. People laughed, clapped, and I even got misty eyed at some scenes.

Now let's hit the jump to the mildly spoiler filled review.

I said Jump!

OK we jumped, but if somehow you ended up here before watching the movie, turn back, run away and stop reading!!

Seriously? Why are you here? Just to suffer?

Martha!? Why did you say that name!?

Whoops! This universe is

100% pure retardium!

Is it safe for me to start now?

Maybe add another blank space?

OK that's far enough of a jump where no one can accidentally get spoiled by a review.

Movie starts with Narration... (insert CinemaSins ding here)

Personally, I would've liked a small.montage of Superman doing superheroing before we get to the "present day" on the story: Superman's First Loss. 

Nick Hoult's Lex Luthor was literally 

An Adult and Affluent Caillou... which was great! Finally a Luthor that can steal forty cakes! 

Oh god, what did they do to poor Hawkgirl! Dammit, Izzy, stop screaming every time you show up to battle. Felt like a cringer version of Hack's Wonder Woman moaning left motif.

Officer John Nolan was a great Guy Gardner.

Glad to see more of the Daily Planet. Hoping to see more of Lombard in the future. Excellent comedic relief. Hopefully, Cat Grant will get to do something more than bouncing titties. They were enjoyable, but, feels cheap to reduce Cat Grant to bouncing titties. I'm well aware that her boobs have been used a couple of times during the comics., which sounded way better in my head.

The ones who stole the show for me were Mr. Terrific, who lives up to his name, Grown up Caillou, Guy Gardner, and Lois Lane. She's not a damsel, she's proactive, but not an OP Mary Sue.

Krypto was OK. The movie explains why he behaves that way. But it wasn't the end all be-all scene stealer that some people say he is. Eh, probably it's because I'm more of a cat person.

The first scene with the Kents was absolute cringe. Made them seem dumb. Not Bueno.

The slightly used plot twist about the House of El not being saintly was OK, but it should've been saved for a sequel. I get WHY it was used, but I feel it was "too early" to use it. 

Super punching bag:

I get that Gunn was going for a more vulnerable Superman, but, I FEEL we needed to see Superman being Overpowered, BEFORE he got his ass kicked for the first time That way we get an "Oh shit!" Moment seeing Superman being Yamcha'd.

I loved how Superman went out of his way to save Everything and when violent, he didn't go full kill mode. He went to disable the opponent mode for the most part.

At the end of the day the movie felt comic book like. Some film purists that would suck Scorsese and Coppola clean, would LOATHE this movie, because it uses comic book logic. It seems like a love letter to Silver Age Comics. 

It's like a balance between Batman 66, Burton, and Nolan's trilogy... 

I can now officially say: I trust James Gunn for DC.