Superman Ultimate Collection
DVD Review: Superman Ultimate Collection
Thank God for DVD. They actually found deleted scenes from this laughable mess and included them. Among them is a gloriously bad first attempt at creating a supervillain. If you thought Nuclear Man was lame, wait 'til you see this embarrassing attempt at comic relief.
He actually goes on to fight Superman! More action is always good, and the bumbling supervillain makes it even more extreme. The damage they cause is actually the best spectacle of the lackluster movie, despite the Keystone antics.
There are more special effects sequences with work print footage even rougher than the lame completed shots. It actually looks more palatable in this form, because at least there's the excuse that it isn't finished.
Anyway, there's more antics during the Superman/Nuclear man battle. Heck, if they'd just kept all this fight footage in, at least Superman IV would have been a massive action movie. Silly is easier to take when it's nonstop.
A scene between Superman and the school kid would be sweet if the kid didn't talk like a special needs student. Lex Luthor meeting with Russians is a good bit of Gene Hackman reveling in his villainry.
Sure, they went to lavish detail on Superman: The Movie, Superman Returns and The Richard Donner Cut, but I'm a junkie for full treatment of bad movies. When you've got a half hour of Quest for Peace subplots, I'll let the other 13 discs sit on my shelf.
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