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Superman

Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Glenn Ford, Margot Kidder, Valerie Perrine, Phyllis Thaxter, Susannah York, Jeff East, Marc McClure, Harry Andrews

An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest super-hero.

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  • magnum32004
    October 10, 2006
    magnum32004
    It soars with enough excitement and charm to put any other comic book movie to shame.
  • SirPant
    September 3, 2009
    SirPant
    Superman is by far the best Superhero movie of all time. Sure the new Batman films are excellent but they're not a touch on Donner's classic. Reeve is the quintessential Superman, even though he the 3rd (or is it 4th?) person to play him. I just can't express how much I adore thi...( read more)s film, it has been my favourite since childhood and I must have watched it over 100 times. I love everything about it and can find no faults with it. Brilliant!
  • markymarkslunggnome
    May 30, 2009
    markymarkslunggnome
    Very Seventies. Gene Hackman is great but not that much in this flick. Being the starter film for a series like Superman I felt it was lacking. Might be that films nowadays need to be over-the-top to be noticeable, but this movie could've been shown in a thirty minute TV episode ...( read more)I think. Liked the awkward sexual innuendos, giant wing collars, and retro special effects. Oh and Brando.
  • sononothing
    November 30, 2008
    sononothing
    You know how we have comic book adaptation films every summer. This is the granddaddy of them all (even though it would be another decade for Batman to get his film and yet another decade for the genre to truly take off). Everyone knows the story of Superman, so I won't even wast...( read more)e the time on the plot or the storyline. If you don't know who Superman is you might as well stop right here.

    Directed by Richard Donner, Superman is a film that could have been an over the top romp ala the late 1960's Batman television series. But what Donner delivered is a film anchored in reality. This being from another world has dropped on the everyday lives of the people of Metropolis (or Manhattan if we want to get technical). When the name Mario Puzo is thrown into the screenwriting process you know this isn't going to be a campy affair.

    The cast is great. Christopher Reeve IS Superman for the entire generation that grew up with these films and the way it's going the next two generations will also look to Reeve as the big blue guy with the "S" on his chest. Can you imagine anyone else in that role? James Caan?? Brando turns in a nice 15 minutes as Kal-El, almost appearing to be in something written by Shakespeare and Margot Kidder shall forever be Lois Lane. Finally Gene Hackman gets the honor of playing one of the biggest baddies in modern mythology in Lex Luthor and he does it perfectly.

    Richard Donner has said that he had two goals in making this film. The first was making you believe a man could fly. The second was that the audience cared about what happened to Superman and Lois, making it a pseudo love story. He accomplished both and created a film that dozens of producers and comic book geeks have tried to emulate ever since.
  • sdcraftnmom
    September 10, 2008
    sdcraftnmom
    Classic Movie
  • kcddck
    November 11, 2009
    kcddck
    Though it is a bit dated, this is still a very fun movie to watch. I thought that Christopher Reeve was nothing short of amazing in this film. I really loved his portrayal of Clark Kent. This also had quite a punch with the rest of the cast as well. You had Brando, Hackman, Kidd...( read more)er, Beatty, Gleen Ford. At times this did get a little slow for me, but it really didn't bother my enjoyment of the film. You can see how this ties right into the second movie right away, but I guess I don't want to get to far ahead of myself.
  • JimG944
    November 8, 2009
    JimG944
    5 of 5 stars for the comic book based movie Superman The Movie. This movie starts the franchise with the destruction of Krypton following sending of its last survivor to Earth. From the landing of his ice craft in the fields to his experiences in high school to his moving to Metr...( read more)opolis and working at the Daily Planet, this movies sets the basic history and story of Superman. An all star cast includes: Reeve, Hackman, Brando, Ford, Perine and Margot Kidder as Lois Lane. This movie has the sequence with Lane in a long gown going flying with Superman. Once Superman is established as a character, we enter the meat of the movie where Superman fights against Lex Luther (Hackman). Helped by Perine & Beatty's characters, Luther learns to use Kryptonite to neutralize Superman. Then he steals a nuke for purposes of setting off a major Earthquake on the west coast to move "ocean-front property" to the east.

    A grand movie with sweeping music and visuals, this is a really fun movie and worth watching several times!
  • formerwowaddic
    November 3, 2009
    formerwowaddic
    for the time frame and sticking to the comic this was a great film kudos to Chris for this one
  • lanba
    November 1, 2009
    lanba
    hace años q me la ví...
    Finalmente la volví a ver, es buena realmnete buena ya q data del año '78 tiene buenos efectos especiales en cuanto a la historia es entretenida pues es el comienzo de todo, del porq es asi y todo lo qlucha por la humanidad, un buen concepto defiunitiv...( read more)amente SUPERMAN
  • thoms51
    October 30, 2009
    thoms51
    You WILL believe a man can fly!
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