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Overall Rating
  Awesome: 7.69%
Worth A Look: 5.13%
Average: 10.26%
Pretty Bad: 15.38%
Total Crap: 61.54%
3 reviews, 60 user ratings
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| Superman IV: The Quest For Peace |
by the Grinch
"Look up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane..no, it's a bomb!"

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Cripes, saw this movie on cable the other day (hey, I've been wheedled to review these forgotten "gems"). I think Chris Reeves' horse saw this movie and wanted some payback. Ok, that joke was in poor taste, but so is this turkey of a flick...now, who's got the carving knife?Featuring low points in the careers of Reeves and Hackman, and probably the LAST point in Jon Cryer's career before he went on to Sitcom oblivion, Supe 4 is as fascinating to watch as it is gloriously weak. Its naive script sabotages it before it's even begun. Chris Reeves is a fine actor, but he needs to go back to Screenwriting 101. This is one bomb that doesn't explode, it just fizzles out.
I don't think I need to summarize the plot for you as others did an excellent job already...The Supe meddles in human political affairs, it backfires, and the Supe realizes that people need to be allowed to exercise their free will, end of story, tralalala, in march the Ewoks and Big Bird and the Supe and everyone skips off into the sunset to pick flowers with their drum-circle buddies. The End.
Just when you thought things couldn't get worse after Superman 3...I honestly don't know who greenlighted this phenomenally bad idea. Couldn't they have just made this into one of those comics that they giveaway at no-nuke rallies or something? I mean, cmon, this is equivalent to making a movie out of the Wonder Woman comic where she teaches you about the importance of buckling up. You know, yah, I'm willing to learn anything Wonder Women has to teach me, especially as pertains to belts, but a movie? .
Probably the most hilarious aspect of the Supe IV is the incredibly limp-noodled climax: New-Klee-Ar Man and Stuporman fighting on the moon. I'm sitting here watching this pathetic blonde super-aryan with his frosted-wheat hair and Reeves with his Memphis Mafia brunette coif...they're bitchsmacking each other in questionable zero gravity simulations and I can't help but laugh uncontrollably. That was probably the best part in this movie. It resembled a cat-fight between Zigfried and Roy...*SHHMACK!* "You BEEETCH, zis iz last time you are borrowing my sequined leiderhosen, Roy!" Hello Ziegfried! Hello ROY! I'll bet Joel Shumacher was involved with this movie in some way...call it a hunch.
I honestly think these last two Superman movies are evil...EEEEVIILLLE! There's some sort of Superman curse or something affecting most of the actors who appeared in these movies...we all know what happened to Chris (as if TV human interest programs will let us forget)...and have you seen Richard Pryor lately? Margot Kidder lost all her teeth and her career went down the tubes. Seen Jon Cryer in any movies lately? Hmmm...I smell an expose.There's talk of negotiations for a FIFTH Superman movie starring, get this, Nicholas Cage. Bwahaha! I ask, haven't enough lives been sacrificed to Golan Globus? Besides, what would they call it? I suggest SUPERMAN V: The Quest For a Good Hair-Peace.
link directly to this review at http://www.efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=980&reviewer=156 originally posted: 12/18/00 20:44:00
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USA 24-Jul-1987 (PG) DVD: 28-Nov-2006
UK N/A
Australia N/A
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