DC Comics fans who were around in 1978 do still remember Christopher Reeve as Superman, Margot Kidder as Lois Lane, and Maureen McGovern’s “Can You Read My Mind” as its love song.

Reeve became paralyzed in 1995 after he fell from a horse in an equestrian competition, proving that Superman is a fictional character and the actor playing the role is human.

47 years later, it’s the 1978 DC fan’s grandchildren’s and great grandchildren’s turn to watch “Superman,” this time with David Corenswet as Superman, and Rachel Brosnahan as Lane. And this Superman does have a dialogue where he says he’s human. Which reminded me of The Human League’s “Human”: “I’m only human/Of flesh and blood I’m made/Human/Born to make mistakes.”

Before this 2025 version, there was Henry Cavill as Superman in the 2013 “Man of Steel.” The ooh-la-la Cavill. Sigh.

These are just three of the many Superman movies that have been released since 1948. If you were born recently, surely you have missed most of them. DC and Marvel tend to make sequels and prequels, plus post-credits scenes that can inspire fans to guess what the next installment will be about.

No need to read the mind of a Superman fan to see if he will watch the latest installment. Of course he will, and most probably already has since it has been showing since Wednesday.

So, there I was again, saying yes to the cinema’s free bottled water but no to its free popcorn now that I’m seriously sticking to the carnivore diet. No hot dog bites available at the cinema’s concession stand, therefore, it was fasting galore for me.

Since “F1” has become my latest standard for a great movie, let’s just say at least “Superman” only made me sleepy, not asleep. Otherwise I would have missed the funny dialogue. And Krypto the Superdog. Which must be the reason a friend said the movie is pa-cute, kind of for children and the young at heart only. He was comparing it to Cavill’s Superman.

I’m young at heart — ahem — I guess that’s the reason I still liked the movie. Superhero movies seldom fail in the audience-impact department. There’s always something there to keep the audience awake.

Still, some audience members left even before the end credits could roll. I was like, Wait! This is a DC film! It has post-credits scenes! In fact, it has two. Either they’re not aware of such scenes or they didn’t care to wait for them anymore.

By the way, its soundtrack has Teddybears’s “Punkrocker” which features Iggy Pop. It plays at the end of the movie. Feel free to dance to that in celebrating this Superman comeback.

But the young once still prefers “Can You Read My Mind”: “Can you read my mind?/Do you know what it is you do to me?/Don’t know who you are/Just a friend from another star/Here I am, like a kid at the school/Holding hands with a god or a fool/Will you look at me, quivering/Like a little girl, shivering/You can see right through me.” Heartily dedicated to the unreachable crush in 1978.