Superman II - Allein gegen alle

The battle with the Kryptonian threesome is certainly unforgettable, but otherwise, the film suffers from a clear complex of second installments, and Lois truly annoyed me. However, it exudes a nostalgic power and resists beautifully old-fashioned tricks with great difficulty. (15.04.2006)

The original Superman transported me from space opera to the ropes of rural 1950s America, only to lead me through a hectic 70s journalistic whodunit to a superhuman adventure about a quest to save humanity and find oneself. Superman II led me somewhere from the worlds of Cannon Films' silly cheesy plots to amateur romances to somewhere in a Russian studio fairy tale of the 1960s. Almost everyone already knows how this came about, that creative and acting disagreements played a role, reboots that some actors haven't yet returned to, and perhaps Lester and Donner's different visual approach to filmmaking with comics. The result is nothing but self-aggrandizing camp with a screenplay so incredibly cobbled together (Mario Puzo wrote it for 600,000, it was 550 pages long, and Donner and Mankiewicz insist that not a single sentence from it was used in any of the installments) that the only way to really enjoy the film is to watch it, pick at moments like driving away from the North Pole in a car, Superman's agonized expression as he lifts an elevator just weeks after having straightened out the California tectonic fault before dinner, or his shitty superhuman dick moves like his amnesiac kiss of Lois Lane after he's fucked her, she's having a hard time taking it and he doesn't want to deal with it. (22.01.2021)

What makes the movie a treasure are the special effects. When it comes to a battle in the city, it is truly beautiful. I can't help it, but at that time the creators really achieved a lot. The performances of the actors certainly do not disappoint. Gene Hackman is still pleasantly eccentric, Terence Stamp is properly evil and dangerous as Zod, but the star remains Christopher Reeve, who is absolutely precise in every funny scene. And when he then flies into the sky in those red trunks, suddenly you don't feel like laughing, but that this is a truly heroic figure who can protect humanity. More: http://www.comics-blog.cz/2013/08/236-superman-2-1980-75.html (16.08.2013)