Rating: PG
Genre:
Adventure
Release Date: 11/28/2006
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DDS
Run Time: 125 Minutes
Flags: Mild Violence, Adult Situations, Excellent For Children
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
In a major departure from the tone of the preceding two
Superman adventure films, this mix of vile deeds and fantasy heroics drops the "S" out of cosmic and goes for comic instead. Right at the starting gate, Gus Gorman (
Richard Pryor) and a subsequent slapstick sequence upstage (
Christopher Reeves again), who later develops an identity crisis. Gorman, newly trained as a computer whiz, starts working for a conglomerate run by the corporate nemesis Ross Webster (
Robert Vaughn), intent on world domination. Gorman is sent to Superman's small town of Smallville to wipe out Columbia's coffee crop by fiddling with the computer side of a weather satellite.
Clark Kent is in town for his class reunion, leading
Superman to clash with Gorman, which in turn, leads Gorman to develop a hybrid red Kryptonite. Unwittingly, since Gorman's wits are always in doubt, the Red Kryptonite causes
Superman to split into a
Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde schizophrenia -- but in two separate bodies. As the evil
Superman swaggers around town, megalomaniac Ross Webster has other tricks in mind -- and in one of the more memorable action scenes (interspersed with a video game sequence), Superman is chased through the Grand Canyon by a fast-flying, very determined missile. Lana Lang (
Annette O'Toole) is on hand for romantic interest (
Margot Kidder only appears briefly -- she was growing tired of
Lois Lane).
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
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The Man of Steel vs. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Robert Vaughn, Napoleon Solo of TV's The Man from U.N.C.L.E., is the latest villain to challenge Christopher Reeve's Superman. By recruiting Richard Pryor as a bumbling computer genius, he constructs a Kryptonite cannon to destroy the heroic Man of Steel. Also starring Annette O'Toole, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Annie Ross, Pamela Stephenson, and Margot Kidder. May not be as impressive as the first two movies, but still just as good.
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