The further adventures of "The Man of Steel" who in this film seems more like "The Man of Aluminum." This time Superman must face down three villains from Krypton the old home planet in a big free for all fight in Metropolis.
Time has really dated the special effects in this film. The flying sequences look very cheesy and the big destruction sequences are mostly models and miniatures not matching up very well with the actual sequences
Let's face it the character of Superman had always been kind of boring, so to keep the film interesting the villains get most of the good scenes. After a while even they start to look a little boring as well, there are only so many push the "puny humans" scenes around that can be made interesting.
The director was Richard Lester who replaced the original director Richard Donner, Lester had started off his career with frantic slapstick films, but his inventiveness had started to peter out in the late 70's. Lester's slap stick scenes would seem to be perfect for a comic book film, but everything seems kind of flat and out of it as he goes through the motions.
Probably Gene Hackman still comes off best as Lex Luthor, hamming it up with the right mix of comic book movie bad guyness.
127 minutes
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