Superman III

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Charlie M Pretty awful. Really boring and really confusing. Characters are all messed up. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/30/24 Full Review DanTheMan 2 Everything about Superman III is a joke. A harsh cruel joke trashing everything that Superman was about for the sake of a cheap laugh. Right from the beginning you know they are going for total slapstick with a pratfall routine where telephone booths are toppled over and it just gets worse from there. I'd actually forgotten how much of this film doesn't work as intended until now, one expects romance, humour and grandeur, but only gets a frustrating mixture of failed opportunities and missed chances instead. The plot is nonsensical as if different scenes were written in isolation without any conception of how to link them together ultimately leaving it to the editors to try and jam them together in the editing room. What spoils the fun isn't the incoherent story or even the technophobia, it's simply overloaded. Too many ideas, too many gadgets, too many stars. The wiring all comes loose at the end; an anticlimax, and a rushed one at that. Now, I love Richard Pryor but making him the main focus of the film doesn't work and he struggled to even muster a chuckle out of me. I also like Robert Vaughan but his villainous Ross Webster is an inferior fill-in for Lex Luthor, not Vaughan's fault mind you, as he plays the character exactly how he was written. Christopher Reeve is desperately trying to make the material work, delivering another great performance but ultimately is left hampered by a lack of anything meaningful to do. Perhaps most unfitting of all is Ken Thorne's new score, which is peppered with circusy ditties, sound effects, and musical cues, we're a long way from John Williams... Arguably, Superman III is my least favourite of the original series, Lester was the wrong pick to carry on in place of Donner and it shows tenfold with this film. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 09/23/24 Full Review Randy J When this film was released in 1983, my dad hated it but I loved it. It isn't as good as the first two but it sure doesn't suck either. I'm glad that Ross Webster replaced Lex Luthor. If Lex Luthor had been in all of the Superman films, that would've been bad. It was neat to see the two Supermen fight and I loved the super computer at the end. I can understand why some people dislike it though. One problem was that the villains were weak. Webster was pretty tame when compared to Luthor. In the original Superman, Luthor tried to kill millions of people to make a fortune in real estate. All Webster did was try to destroy Columbia's coffee crops and steal all of the world's oil. But even though the 3rd Superman movie had a few problems, I enjoyed it in 1983 and I still like it today. I recommend that people watch it. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/04/24 Full Review Alan g After superman 2, perhaps the best superman movie ever, why kill the franchise with richard pryor? He can't act and only mugs for the camera. Slapstic sight gags ruin the whole movie. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 08/25/24 Full Review Tyler S I don't even know where to begin. The dramatic tone and story change from the 2nd film to this one is wild. It just felt way too silly. It also felt like they were trying to do too many things by adding a plot in there then a few subplots also. There were a few of the sublots that I like the idea for, but I just did not like the build up towards them. Most of the characters also just felt so irrelevant and more silly. Christopher Reeve and his superb acting really carried this. But there were even a few points where is character didn't seem to belong. The acting did not blend right and the story was a mess. Solid idea for a film, just a huge missed opportunity overall. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 07/02/24 Full Review Joseph C This is where Superman movies, the christopher reeve versions get really really bad. Sorry but this wears thin really fast. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 06/19/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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