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Look! Upon the screen! It's SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE
by Jack (movies profile)
Jul 24, 2006
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5 people found this review helpful
A year ago, if you'd asked me what I thought of the movie my answer woulkd be "IT'S CRAP". But, I go the DVD free with the british movie magazine EMPIRE and thought "Okay, well, I'll give it a try". I obviously did and fell in love with it.
The movie starts of on the planet Kryton, Kal-El/Superman/Clark Kent's (Christopher Reeve) home planet, where the evil Genral Zod (Terence Stamp), Ursa (Sarah Douglas) and Non (Jack O'Halloran) are being sentenced to life enprisonment in the Phantem Zone by the Council of Kryton lead by Jor-El (Marlon Brando), Superman's father. Jor-El's theory of Kryton's destrucion has been over-ruled by the council and he and his wife have been forbiden to leave the planet. Jor-El's theory is right. Just before Kryton blows up Jor-El sends baby Kar-El to earth where he is brought up by the Martha and Jonathan Kent (Phyllis Thaxter and Glenn Ford). The teenage Clark Kent (played in an excellent proformce by Jeff East) suffers the lost of another father. With a strange green crystal, which Jor-El had sent to earth with him, he decides to go and find out where he is from. He gets to the Fortress of Solitude where he spents years learning from the spirit of Jor-El. The adult Clark (Reeve) goes to Metropolis, where he gets a job at the Daily Planet newpaper office. There is a scene where he first reveals himself SUPERMAN and save Lois Lane (Margot Kidder).
With a brilliant screenplay written by Mario Puzo (The amzaingly classic Godfather trilogy) and brilliantly directed by Richard Donner (The Omen, The Lethal Weapon Series), this movie desurvives its statues. |
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