It's Tough to Be a Bird

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Audience Member The camp feels more desperate than funny. There's a lot of humor, but few hard laughs. The songs weren't really memorable, and the characters were fairly weak-Superman included. This TV musical is more painful than enjoyable. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member Based on the Broadway production 'It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Superman!', this cheap, once-screened, made-for-television version of the well-received musical is infamously the Man of Steel's worst representation to date. David Wilson is an admittedly likeable presence, but is simply not right to play the iconic superhero, and Leslie Anne Warren, despite a wonderful singing voice, appears to be vying for the Worst Actress of All Time award (she auditioned to play the role of Lois Lane again when Richard Donner was casting his 1978 blockbuster). The song and dance routines here are fun and, really, the fact that the sets are made out of cardboard don't matter after a while, but the piece simply doesn't come together as well as it did on stage with Bob Holiday in the title role. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member This campy musical about Superman aired only once on TV in the 70s. But the internet is a wondrous place where you can find any odd pop culture artifact seemingly lost in time forever. So I watched this, much like I watched the Star Wars Holiday Special before...and just like that odd special...this is pretty awful. This is decidedly better...but not by much. The music isn't great, and the production values are super lame and weak...but it is interesting if you like odd stuff the way I do. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member I have seen student films that are better than this one. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member I have seen student films that are better than this one. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Yikes! Parody fail. David Wilson is perhaps the most miscast and forgettable Superman ever, backed up by Leslie Ann Warren as Lois Lane, Kenneth Mars as the villain (sorta) and Loretta Switt (who steals the show) as his girlfriend. It's all incredibly tongue-in-cheek and, like the Batman movies of the 90s, probably thought itself a sophisticated send-up of the Superman its audience had grown up on. But coming out the same year as the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman (which, in retrospect, was campy and fun without being any sillier than any other 70s action TV series,) this just looks inept. Still, that can be forgiven. What cannot is the half-assed, meandering plot, which never really gels. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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