A bad movie

Out of the 5 Superman movies they made so far, it is easily the worst one. Yeah, in my opinion, it is even worse than ‘Superman IV’ which is usually even more hated but this 2nd sequel was pure garbage. This time, Richard Lester was back in the director’s chair but even it did a decent job with the 1st sequel, taking over when Richard Donner was fired, he did really mess it up this time. Apparently, someone thought it was a good idea to turn the whole thing into some kind of comedy and threw in Richard Pryor into the mix. I mean, to get an idea, it is as if they would have cast Eddie Murphy in ‘The Dark Knight’ to add a few more laughs. Sounds quite dreadful, doesn’t it? Ok, I have to admit it, Superman had never been a really serious affair in the first place but with this movie, it reached some new level of silliness and boredom. I have nothing against Richard Pryor, I haven’t seen enough of his movies to judge him, but it was pretty obvious he got himself involved in this for a fat big paycheck. At least, they tried to bring another bad guy than the always dependable Lex Luthor (Luthor would be eventually the villain in all the 4 over Superman installments. Talking about a lack of inspiration…) but that’s the only positive thing I can find here. To conclude, it was pretty bad and it is not really worth a look, even if you like the genre.

4/10