He is faster than a
speeding bullet, he is more powerful than a locomotive, and he can leap tall
buildings in a single bound, but what do fans and critics think of Superman's
various big screen adventures?
SUPERMAN (1978)
Scores
Rotten Tomatoes (Critics): 93%
Rotten Tomatoes (Audience Score): 86%
Metacritic: 86
IMDB: 7.3/10
Cinemascore: None
Movie Info
Director: Richard
Donner
Cast: Christopher
Reeve, Margot Kidder, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Terence
Stamp, Maria Schell, Jack O'Halloran, Valerie Perrine, Glenn Ford, Phyllis
Thaxter.
Synopsis: Moments
before the destruction of the planet Krypton, Jor-El (Brando) places his infant
son Kal-El on a spaceship and sends him towards Earth, where he is picked up
and raised by the kindly farmers Jonathan (Ford) and Martha Kent (Thaxter) who
name him Clark. Now an adult, Clark moves to Metropolis where he divides his
time between working at the Daily Planet, and fighting crime as Superman.
SUPERMAN II (1981)
Scores
Rotten Tomatoes (Critics): 89%
Rotten Tomatoes (Audience Score): 75%
Metacritic: 87
IMDB: 6.8/10
Cinemascore: None
Movie Info
Director: Richard
Lester and Richard Donner (uncredited)
Cast: Christopher
Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Terence Stamp, Jack
O'Halloran, Valerie Perrine, Sarah Douglas, Susannah York, Marc McClure.
Synopsis: After
lobbing a thermonuclear device into space, Superman inadvertently frees Zod,
Ursa, and Non from their imprisonment. The three Kryptonian criminals then
arrive on Earth and use their powers in a bid to take over the planet.
SUPERMAN III (1983)
Scores
Rotten Tomatoes (Critics): 26%
Rotten Tomatoes (Audience Score): 23%
Metacritic: 42
IMDB: 4.9/10
Cinemascore: None
Movie Info
Director: Richard
Lester
Cast: Christopher
Reeve, Margot Kidder, Richard Pryor, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Annette
O'Toole, Annie Ross, Pamela Stephenson, Robert Vaughn.
Synopsis: The Man of
Steel (Reeve) takes on a megalomaniacal businessman (Vaughn) who with the aid
of a silly hacker (Pryor) plans to take over the world.
SUPERMAN IV: THE
QUEST FOR PEACE (1987)
Scores
Rotten Tomatoes (Critics): 12%
Rotten Tomatoes (Audience Score): 16%
Metacritic: 22
IMDB: 3.7/10
Cinemascore: C
Movie Info
Director: Sidney J.
Furie
Cast: Christopher
Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Jon Cryer,
Mark Pillow, Mariel Hemingway, Jim Broadbent.
Synopsis: As the Man
of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament, Lex Luthor and his nephew Lenny
create Nuclear Man, a new foe for Superman to fight.
SUPERMAN RETURNS (2006)
Scores
Rotten Tomatoes (Critics): 76%
Rotten Tomatoes (Audience Score): 61%
Metacritic: 72
IMDB: 6.1/10
Cinemascore: B
Movie Info
Director: Bryan
Singer
Cast: Brandon Routh,
Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Parker Posey, James Marsden, Frank Langella, Sam Huntington,
Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Kal Penn.
Synopsis: The Man of Steel returns to the
big screen with this continuation of the icon's film legacy that picks up after
the events of the first two Christopher Reeve films. Some time has passed since
the events of Superman II and the world has gotten used to life without
Superman (Brandon Routh) ever since his puzzling disappearance years earlier.
Upon his return, he finds a Metropolis that doesn't need him anymore, while
Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth) has moved on with another young suitor Richard White
(James Marsden) in the meantime. As the hero begins to tackle the fact that
life on Earth has continued without him, he is forced to face his old
arch-nemesis Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey) and restore the life that was once his.
MAN OF STEEL (2013)
Scores
Rotten Tomatoes (Critics): 56%
Rotten Tomatoes (Audience Score): 75%
Metacritic: 55
IMDB: 7.2/10
Cinemascore: A-
Movie Info
Director: Zack Snyder
Cast: Henry Cavill,
Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Diane Lane, Russell Crowe, Antje Traue, Harry
Lennix, Richard Schiff, Christopher Maloni, Kevin Costner, Ayelet Zurer,
Laurence Fishburne, Richard Cetrone.
Synopsis: In the pantheon of superheroes, Superman is the most recognized and revered
character of all time. Clark Kent/Kal-El (Cavill) is a young twentysomething
journalist who feels alienated by powers beyond anyone’s imagination.
Transported to Earth years ago from Krypton, an advanced alien planet, Clark
struggles with the ultimate question – Why am I here? Shaped by the values of
his adoptive parents Martha (Lane) and Jonathan Kent (Costner), Clark soon
discovers that having super abilities means making very difficult decisions.
But when the world needs stability the most, it comes under attack. Will his
abilities be used to maintain peace or ultimately used to divide and conquer?
Clark must become the hero known as “Superman,” not only to shine as the
world’s last beacon of hope but to protect the ones he loves.
BATMAN V SUPERMAN:
DAWN OF JUSTICE (2016)
Scores
Rotten Tomatoes (Critics): 27%
Rotten Tomatoes (Audience Score): 67%
Metacritic: 44
IMDB: 7.1/10
Cinemascore: B
Movie Info
Director: Zack Snyder
Cast: Henry Cavill,
Amy Adams, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, Laurence Fishburne, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy
Irons, Holly Hunter, Gal Gadot, Scoot McNairy, Callan Mulvey, Tao Okamoto,
Laura Cohan.
Synopsis: Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked,
Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most
revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it
really needs. And with Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new
threat quickly arises, putting mankind in greater danger than it’s ever known
before.
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