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Summary: a childhood milestone
Review: So many people have slagged off this movie.They take the whole Superman movie stuff so seriously, but have they actually seen the other movies? Cheese tastic. Do they look like they are meant to be the x men or spiderman of the 80's? The whole era was like that!!These movies have been a part of my childhood, on every year on tv, I have seen them so many times. Contrary to many people's opinions I thought that this on was the best. Because it WAS slightly different from the others. It takes time out from all of the husstle and busstle of the city and goes home. I know Lois is hardly in it, true, but isn't it refreshing to see more of characters we hardly see,like Lana? My favourite character in this was Vera, played by the lady with a deeply sexy voice, Annie Ross. Despite having a childhood crush on her I thought Annie brought a refreshing humour as a villianess and overshone Vaughn's character her brother. Besides from that this is a deeply cheesy film which scared every child in the world when Vera got transformed Borg style. Don't take this seriously, it's pure cheese, classy cheese! xx (the 4 stars are for the film- none for extras cos there aren't any!)
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Summary: Comedy is only funny if it works
Review: Not even Richard Pryor can save this dismal flop sequel to the Superman series. Didn't anyone tell the writers that slapstick is dead? Superman must stop an oil tychoon from stealing the oil of the world and defeat his super-computer.
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Summary: Superman must help Richard Pryor, and his evil self.
Review: Christopher Reeve is back the third time as Clark Kent/Superman. Richard Pryor is in the unemployment line only to find out he is no longer eligible for benefits after 36 weeks. However, what a great opening for a Superman film when Pamela Stepphenson (later joined the cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live in 1984-85) starts a domino effect of human errors on the street of Metropolis that lasts for five minutes. From reading an advertisement on a match book cover, Pryor decides to become a computer programmer. With his first paycheck he can't believe how much less with all the taxes. Even though a co-worker explained to him that the social security tax was so he would get some money back when he is 65, Pryor decides to hack the computer to give him another extra paycheck and later learns how to make kryptonite. Clark Kent goes to his high-school reunion and meets again Annette O'Toole (who later played Superboy's mother in the WB tv series "Smallville") who has a son named "Ricky" (Paul Kaethler). Later, Superman has a showdown with his evil self. Mostly all of the cast from Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980) is here, including Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure and Margot Kidder. Also in the cast this time around is Robert Vaughn and Annie Ross. This version is NOT the extended version (2 hrs. 23 min.) with nearly 19 minutes of extra footage that originally shown on Network television only, not in the theatres. This DVD is just the theatrical version in wide-screen. It only runs 2 hours, 4 minutes.
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Summary: I miss Donner, I'm sure Reeve did too.
Review: The movie is nothing more than a late night tbs movie you'd watch after Braves baseball with your grandfather. In other words its, not that good. If only they would have further explored the relationship between Clark and Lana, and the Superman vs. Clark Kent story (the superman vs. kent sideshow is actually my most favorite part of all the superman movies, which is prob. why i give it 3 stars. i'd give it 2 1/2 if I could.)
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Summary: Next to Batman and Robin has the worst comics film ever made
Review: The Salkinds and Richard Lester thought they were the ones that made Superman II work. No, they used 70% of the footage that was already shot by Richard Donner and then took credit for a movie they did not make. Superman III shows what total fools they really were. They did not know Superman, did not respect the story, and thought that using Richard Pryor would work in the casting. It did not. It also shows what terrible screen writers Robert Benton and David and Leslie Newman really were when it came to writing Superman for the big screen. They saw it as a parody on a parody. No wonder their rewrites were taken out of the first movie's screenplay. But they wrote this third installment and it was a huge disaster. What were they thinking?
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Summary: superman 4- the quest of the best!
Review: Why? why do you think it's very bad? for me, it is just great. just don't think it 's all over. IT IS A VERY GOOD FANTSY MOVIE. AND FOR ME? I LIKE IT VERY MUCH.
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Summary: Not as bad as they say...
Review: Ok, ok, so it's NOWHERE near as good as the original, but it really isn't as bad as everyone says. True, the opening sequence is WAY over the top, and needless to say, STOOPID, and Lois Lane is missed, and the villains are second rate(the evil superman was cool though) and the music is out of place. All that aside, the movie was good enough. The plot is pretty simple: outta work schmuck (Pryor) discovers a knack for computer programming and is recruited by slimy corporate bad guy (Vaughn, as pretty much a Lex Luthor rip off) to do all sorts of nasty things, such as hack into weather satelites, steal world oil supply, create synthetic kryptonite (which is the same thing as red kryptonite, just not red) and build a giant super-computer (which is pretty much the same thing as brainiac, especially when it transforms one of the villains into a cyborg, a scene I remember from when I was a kid because it was scary). Along the way Superman goes to Smallville, saves a chemical plant, romances Lana Lang (O'toole), defeats Brainiac, defeats evil self and, surprisingly, sleeps with bad guy's bimbo. A few things could've made the movie a lot better if 1)Lex Luthor was in it 2)Lois Lane was in it for more than 5 minutes 3)the comedy was toned down a lot 4)the red kryptonite was actually red 5)the computer was actually brainiac. The fight between Clark and evil Superman is also great, even though it could've been a little better if they had taken more advantage of Reeve's great performance. That aside, the dvd is pretty standard, with only the trailer and widescreen. Still, it's worth a look if you're a Superman fan, it should bring back memories from your childhood, or it did for me anyway, considering I was young when it came out. Check it out!
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Summary: Best Superman movie
Review: In my opinion, i'd say this is the best one. The plot: Computer genius Gus Gorman {Richard Pryor} is hired by criminal mastermind Ross Webster {Robert Vaghan} to take on and kill Superman {Christopher Reeve} by exposing him to a different form of krytonite: red krytonite. Instead of killing him, it turns him evil. The special effects are awesome, and the fight scenes are cool too, including the junkyard fight between where it's Clark versius Evil Superman. The other cool part in the movie is when the super-computer gets a mind of it's own and turns Webster's sister into a cyborg. Like I said, This is best superman movie. If you don't have it, Buy it or rent it.
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Summary: Please don't waste your money...it ruins Superman!
Review: I enjoyed the first two Superman movies a lot. The first one was pretty cool if you didn't mind the language. The second one, Superman grew darker in my mind because ditched his super powers to sleep with Lois Lane. (Whatta creep!) I'd been warned about Superman III some, but NOT ENOUGH. This movie is an absolute ruin of the Superman genre. Richard Pryor ruined it with his stupid humor, and the opening slap-stick junk was a pretty good indication of the rest of the movie. It had some potential...Superman being turned nassssty with the kryptonite, and being split into a duel self could have been done so much better, but generally I liked the junk yard encounter. It was an old, split-screen trick, but pulled off convincingly. The bad Superman corrects the Leaning Tower of Pisa's lean, and helps the bad guy of the film to cripple the oil supply of the world. Then he goes and sleeps with the ditz of the movie, basically a Ms. Tetsmacher clone of Superman I. The movie stunk. Bad language, sexual dialogue, implications, and innuendo (Perry White tells Jimmy a good reporter eats with his camera, sleeps with his camera, and Lois groans and says "Oh, I'm glad I'm a writer." is an example), and total stupidity. Please, oh PLEASE don't waste your money on this movie.
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Summary: BEST YET
Review: If nobody has this' dvd yet yall need to hurry up and get it the picture & sound is better then the old Superman III vhs i have ' it was like it was renew in the morning ' richard pryor is so funny in the movie but i notice something superman & lois were never together in the movie.........but what the hell i mean he had to take a break from metropolis & the can you read my mind song now i also like the extended version of superman 3 because the credits to the theme are in space' that is something i also like & like about the movie
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