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Critics Consensus: When not overusing sight gags, slapstick, and Richard Pryor, Superman III resorts to plot points rehashed from the previous Superman flicks.
Critic Consensus: When not overusing sight gags, slapstick, and Richard Pryor, Superman III resorts to plot points rehashed from the previous Superman flicks.
All Critics (45) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (34) | DVD (6)
Superman III may be the saddest dissappointment of the summer movie season.
Reeve, the ongoing justification for the series, is no longer contractually obligated after this episode, and his liberation comes not an installment too soon.
Putting its emphasis on broad comedy at the expense of ingenious plotting and technical wizardry, it has virtually none of the mythic or cosmic sensibility that marked its predecessors.
Enjoyable, nevertheless.
It's a cinematic comic book, shallow, silly, filled with stunts and action, without much human interest.
Anyone who has been following the Superman saga will find this installment enjoyable enough, but some of the magic is missing.
Superman is thrown in to the mix somewhere. But he's merely an after thought, and a supporting player in his own film.
A noticeable drop in quality from the first two, but it's still decent enough that you don't have to be embarrassed for liking it. That comes soon enough...
Outdated superhero movie may interest older kids.
Richard Lester's direction injects nothing new into the material, giving the feeling that he views the whole thing as an exercise in comedy set pieces.
Apparently, Richard Lester's intent was to turn Superman into a joke. A really bad joke.
'Superman contra os avanços da tecnologia'. Uma idéia cuja estupidez só é superada por sua péssima execução.
Richard Donner steps out and in comes Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night), who proceeds to strip the franchise away of any dignity it once had. Donner's close-to-the-chest serious tone is abandoned in favor a cheesy campy one, accompanied by lame sight gags and un-funny slapstick. Having Richard Pryor's scenes (who is playing a PG-version of himself) consist of half the film's runtime is just too much because most of the time he just bumbles like an idiot. Rarely has a comedic genius been so utterly misrepresented. Due to working with a lower budget, the story comes off as a Superman TV episode rather than an epic story like the previous two Donner flicks. The subplot with Clark and Lana Lang could have been interesting but it is rushed and brushed to the wayside to set-up a future Superman love-triangle between Lois and Lana (which is never followed-up upon). The villains are lame (especially there computer scheme that's laughable even for the time) but there is a morbid enjoyment to be had watching Reeve play a corrupted Man of Steel, which he perfectly nails. The 'Army of Darkness'-style fight between Good Supes and Evil Supes yields some impressive special effects. Despite a few decent moments trickled throughout, they are all crushed under a crappy and tedious narrative that feels confused about whether it is catering to kids or adults. Donner one time made audiences believe a man CAN fly. With 'Superman III', Lester proved to audiences that a man can also fall from grace.
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Dumber, with a less-interesting story and a stupid villain, "Superman 3" is definitely not the return that fans were hoping for. It kind of breaks the back of the series in a way, especially during the first act, where the fact of it being a Superman film is thrown out the window. This time, the film focusses on Richard Pryor's character who is an accountant, stealing money from his firm, but when he get's involved with an evil genius, his plans turn completely around, as he is faced to confront and destroy Superman with them. The most interesting portion of the film is when Superman must face his alternate self, because it is really the soul of the film and the turn-around point which makes the film watchable. I did not hate this film, it does have it's fun moments, but it's just not a good movie. The direction is sloppy, which is odd, because Lester's directing for the second was so great, and the writing here is much more bland. I expected much more from the third film in a series, but oh well, it'll be hard to top the first two anyways. I definitely do not recommend this one!
*1/2 Wow, if you want to see how far comic book adaptation movies have come, just watch this. This is the 3rd Superman movie and it is a real stinker(not as bad as four, but it's bad). Here, Superman basically goes against a rich guy who wants to rule the world by using Richard Pryor(yeah, that Richard Rryor) to create a giant computer. Pryor tries to be funny here, and he is the best thing about the movie, but man he has no place in a Superman movie. Could you imagine Chris Rock as the lead villain in "Iron Man"? Me either. At one point he creates a form of kryptonite that turns Superman bad. By bad I mean his outfit is now maroon, he has stuble and he's a dick. Instead of doing anything real bad, he does things like blow the torch out at the Olympics. This movie was lame as lame can get, and I'm sure it was lame when it came out in the theaters. It doesn't hold up at all, and runs at right around 2 hours, which is way too long. Watch if your a die hard Pryor fan(even though you still won't like it), otherwise just skip this one altogether.
Third entry in the Superman franchise is still a fun, entertaining picture and is far better than what most people have said about it. For me, the Superman films worked better as a trilogy of films, and a fourth film was not necessary. Anyhow, for me, this is where the franchise ends due to the fact that the fourth film failed to deliver anything truly entertaining and was awful in terms of story, acting and special effects. Christopher Reeve again reprises his role as Clark Kent/ Superman. I really don't know why this film received negative reviews as the idea behind it was pretty interesting. Sure the film is at times silly, but that's all part of the fun. There are some terrific performances here such as Richard Pryor. This is a fun and entertaining action film. For what it is, it's a pleasant time waster that should appeal to fans of the first two films. I think that the filmmakers should have ended the series with this film as it would have ended the series on a high note. However they would have a painful fourth entry that simply lacked anything worth seeing. This film has everything you'd expect from a Superman film, and it still manages to be a good film despite its flaws. If you enjoyed the first two entries in the series, you're sure to enjoy this one. I really think it's a far better film than what most people have said, and you should give it a chance as it is entertaining and packed with everything that made the Superman films worth seeing in the first place.
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