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www.moria.co.nz - : Superman II survived not too badly but by the time of Superman III, Lester and the Salkinds promptly turned the series into an unserious cartoonish travesty. The original idea had been to make the Superman films akin to the James Bond series, producing a film as a bi-annual event, but Superman III proved a flop that doomed the future of the series. more...
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www.filmcritic.com - : The third entry in the Superman series stands as one of history's most infamous cautionary tales about the danges of computers, and it's also one of the silliest. Not only does Richard Pryor engineer a way to steal all the rounded half-pennies from his employer, he manages to synthesize kryptonite (using tobacco tar as an ingredient where needed) and design an artificial intelligence system that ''wants to live.'' No Lex Luthor this time out; Pryor's employer is Robert Vaughn -- a corporate mogul trying to use technology to cause world disasters and profit from them. more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : ''Superman III'' is the kind of movie I feared the original ''Superman'' would be. It's a cinematic comic book, shallow, silly, filled with stunts and action, without much human interest. What's amazing is that the first two Superman movies avoided that description, creating a fantasy with a certain charm. They could have been manipulative special-effects movies, but they were a great deal more. With this third one, maybe they've finally run out of inspiration. more...
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