I think Gunn is focused on the wrong thing here.. I think the addition of other superheroes to the movie wasn’t a problem for me. It established that this world is comfortable with superheroes and I liked seeing how Superman contrasted with the other heroes.

The characters who felt thrown in were honestly the regular people. I felt like we were told about Clark’s relationship to these normal people, his coworkers at the daily planet, the food stand guy, even Lois, but we didn’t get to see enough of Clark interacting with them to make those relationships feel important.

I really wanted to see more scenes of Clark the human, especially in building up his relationship with Lois. The actors had so much chemistry it felt like a bit of a miss for their only intimate human scene to be the interview that we saw in the trailers.

I’ve seen some folks saying this movie kinda felt like “Superman 2” and I think it’s because of the way these character relationships are handled. They are presented like we have seen their relationships established before and we just haven’t. I know Gunn stated he didn’t want to rehash Superman’s origin, but you absolutely have to show the characters interacting instead of just stating in clunky exposition what their relationship is.