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Superman III
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Run time: 2 hours 5 minutes
Rental release: Currently unavailable
Main languages: English
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  • Supes turns evil ! And gets drunk !

    Rated - 4.0 stars  
    By TJ from London , 14 Sep 2005

    [Highly rated reviewer]

    If you disregard the spoof comedy side of this movie - all the parts with Richard Pryor, then somewhere inside you'll find a half-decent Superman movie starring the excellent Christopher Reeve. Scenes include him freezing a lake and dropping it on the fire to put it out, going to his high-school reunion to meet Lana Lang again and one of the best scenes of the whole series - Superman turns evil, gets drunk, then fights his good alter-ego Clark Kent. The whole bit about super computers and Richard Pryor is a bit of a waste of time, although some of it is still funny. Anyway, Reeve not only does boy-scout Clark and heroic Supes well, but gets to be a mean Supes too! Also includes him sneezing down the bowling alley and shattering all the skittles into a thousand pieces!
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  • Average but worth it for the scrapyard scene alone

    Rated - 3.0 stars  
    By Bassman71 (618 reviews) from Didsbury, England , 27 Feb 2012
    Unemployed man becomes computer programmer, has natural talent, increases salary, CEO wants man to help his evil plans, Superman to the rescue.

    Third Superman outing which is pretty much a comedy vehicle for Richard Pryor and despite its funny moments falls a bit flat.

    The whole computer thing does seem very dated now and it certainly misses Gene Hackman from the other films but the one stand-out is Christopher Reeve.

    Looking more chiselled and heroic than ever, Reeve does his best to save the film.

    His performances as Clark Kent, Superman AND evil Superman are excellent and the scene in scrapyard the standout of the film.

    The music is one again done by Ken Thorne with a few of his own compositions in there but mainly built around the wonderful theme from John Williams.
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  • AVOID AVOID AVOID

    Rated - 0.5 stars  
    By ScroteRot (4 reviews) , 26 Oct 2011

    THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Show review anywayHide

    If you want to revisit films you can't really remember as a kid, keep it that way when it comes to this film!!

    In short:

    -Louis goes to another country for most of the film

    -Mr White gets a new lottery machine

    -Jimmy gets a broken left leg

    -Clark somehow gets away with writing about a school reunion in Smallville for a Metropolis newspaper!! slow day for news!!

    -Richard prior goes from: unemployed no-hoper to world wide computer hacker to unemployed superman lover

    -Superman pushes the tower of Pisa straight HA, HA

    -Superman fights himself

    -Superman goes back to put the tower of Pisa back to its original wonky state.

    Low points of the film:

    The Intro, Acting, storyline, special effects, cast and script

    Broken down:

    Intro: Like a very bad ATTEMPT... at Naked Gun humour but ill conceived, badly choreographed, badly acted (see below also) and most importantly NOT FUNNY

    Acting: no sign of reactive style acting at all, at one point in the film Jimmy goes into a cordoned off area surrounded by firemen and police, and hardly anyone notices, those that do, don't care!

    Storyline:

    No-hoper-to-computer-hacker Gus (Richard Pryor) joins forces with his boss to try and control Columbia's coffee industry and the worlds oil. the first from a banks main computer in Smallville, far fetched much!! Later using another basic computer to create the chemical makeup of Kryptonite.

    Special Effects:

    Easily the worst of all Superman films. Stupid fast flowing backgrounds for in-flights. 60s style monster/zombie costumes at the end.

    Cast:

    Richard Pryor is/was great, but he should never have appeared in this s**t. Lana Lang is just as dull and annoying as in the series Smallville 20 years later but not as hot. You can't make a decent superman film without Lex Luther and Louis Lane.
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  • Super great

    Rated - 5.0 stars  
    By Labdog (39 reviews) , 30 Jul 2011
    There is a reason why the title has a super in it and that is because the film is super great. Richard Prior is great.
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  • How did you people even get this film?

    Rated - 0.5 stars  
    By a customer , 13 Jul 2011
    LF have sent me Superman Returns in a Superman 3 case 3 times now. They keep sending me BS excuses about how the distribution staff are busy.
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  • the best film ever

    Rated - 5.0 stars  
    By a customer , 19 Jun 2011
    this was the best film ever when i was a kid and it still is !! superman turns bad and splits 1 is good and 1 is bad then they fight to the death :) best ever if you watched this film as a kid and you watch it now and think its bad then you are an old git and you need to go into a home lol
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