Storyline
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
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Cast
John Ratzenberger, Terence Stamp, Ned Beatty, Vincent Marzello, Marlon Brando, Noel Neill, Margot Kidder, John Hollis, Norwich Duff, Ray Hassett, Burnell Tucker, David Calder, Chuck Julian, Paul Tuerpe, Harry Andrews, John Cassady, David Baxt, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Jackie Cooper, Glenn Ford, Trevor Howard, Jack O'Halloran, Valerie Perrine, Maria Schell, Phyllis Thaxter, Susannah York, Jeff East, Marc McClure, Sarah Douglas, Vass Anderson, James Garbutt, Michael Gover, David Neal, Penelope Lee, John Stuart, Alan Cullen, Lee Quigley, Aaron Smolinski, Diane Sherry Case, Jeff Atcheson, Brad Flock, David Petrou, Billy J. Mitchell, Robert Henderson, Larry Lamb, James Brockington, John F. Parker, Harry Scott, Ray Evans, Su Shifrin, Miquel Brown, Benjamin Feitelson, Lise Hilboldt, Leueen Willoughby, Jill Ingham, Pieter Stuyck, Rex Reed, Weston Gavin, Steve Kahan, Randy Jurgensen, Matt Russo, Colin Skeaping, Bo Rucker, Paul Avery, George Harris II, Michael Harrigan, John Cording, Raymond Thompson, Oz Clarke, Rex Everhart, Jayne Tottman, Frank Lazarus, Brian Protheroe, Lawrence Trimble, Robert Whelan, Keith Alexander, Michael Ensign, Larry Hagman, Graham McPherson, David Yorston, Robert O'Neill, Robert MacLeod, Alan Tilvern, Phil Brown, Bill Bailey, Chief Tug Smith, Norman Warwick, Colin Etherington, Mark Wynter, Roy Stevens, William Russell, Kirk Alyn, Edward Finneran
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Reviews
100
Boasts a smart screenplay by Robert Benton and David and Leslie Newman, striking cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth (especially in the Smallville sequence), bright comic turns by Margot Kidder and Gene Hackman, and of course, that winning performance by Christopher Reeve in the title role. Believe a man can fly? You bet!
100
Superman is a pure delight, a wondrous combination of all the old-fashioned things we never really get tired of: adventure and romance, heroes and villains, earthshaking special effects, and -- you know what else? Wit.
100
Dallas Observer
If not the best superhero movie ever, it's definitely in the top 3. Reeve will forever be Superman to most of us.
100
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Estimates of the movie's costs range between $35-and $70-million; whatever the price, it was not too much to pay. As gods go, Superman is one of the godliest; his movie is one of the best.
100
Variety
Magnify James Bond's extraordinary physical powers while curbing his sex drive and you have the essence of Superman, a wonderful, chuckling, preposterously exciting fantasy.
