Superman III

1983

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi

93
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 23% · 103 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 23% · 100K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.0/10 10 80701 80.7K

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Plot summary

Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yields some unexpected psychological effects. Between rekindling romance with his high school sweetheart and saving himself, Superman must contend with a powerful supercomputer.

Director

Richard Lester Photo
Richard Lester

Top cast

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Helen Horton as Miss Henderson
Marc McClure Photo
Marc McClure as Jimmy Olsen
Sadie Eden Photo
Sadie Eden as Rescue Worker
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David Winning as Commuter
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700.94 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
2 hr 5 min
Seeds 16
1.99 GB
1920*800
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
2 hr 5 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ricardopthomaz 6 / 10

Silly, mindless fun.

I agree with everyone who says that Super IV is an awful, wretched movie. But III... well, it's mindless fun, actually. Nothing special, just a guilty pleasure.I know, I know, Super 1 and 2 (specially Donner version of 2) are great, wonderful films! But when I was little, I used to go to school, my mom was doing laundry, father working, back from school, it was the 80's, starts raining, couldn't get out of the house, finished homework from school, standing on our living room, playing with my action figures, reading my comics, listening to the vinyl records on our sound, and then I got bored and decided to turn on the TV and there it was, Superman III.And I used to watch this movie on TV a lot, so I just got nostalgic feelings by it. I didn't know any better, Richard Pryor always looked nice on the film for me and I used to laugh at him a lot. Of course I was little and unfamiliarized with his other films, specially the ones with Gene Wilder, so I just kept watching Super III.I mean, when you grow up, you tend to judge things a lot better, but for the time being, I used to have some mindless fun with this movie, and once it kept me from being bored on rainy days, I guess it did a good job on me.So I think it's not a terrible movie after all. Undeniably flawed, yes, weaker than its predecessors, no doubt! There is nothing epic or breathtaking about this one. But it still offers some nice fun for me from time to time.If you don't like it, OK, I can perfectly see where you're coming from. But I gotta say this... if you're on a rainy day... just give it a try.
Reviewed by BandSAboutMovies 2 / 10

Horrible

I always wonder, what was the exact moment where people went from thinking The Great Train Robbery was some kind of black magic and the train was going to kill everyone in the theater to watching a movie and saying, "That was boring."For ten-year-old Sam, it may have been this movie.Just four years earlier, I laid on my stomach in the back of my parent's station wagon and pretended I was flying the whole way home from Superman.So what happened?This movie sucks is what happened.Sure, it's written again by husband and wife team David and Leslie Newman and Richard Lester, who took over from a movie nearly already shot by Richard Donner in Superman II, directed. But I have no idea why this movie is about what it's about. I was a hardcore Superman reader as a kid and I kept thinking, "Will Brainiac be in this? The Parasite? The Atomic Skull? Would Dudley Moore play Mister Mxyzptlk?"How about Richard Pryor?Gene Hackman and Margot Kidder were said to have been angry with the way the Salkinds treated Donner, with Hackman retaliating by refusing to reprise the role of Lex Luthor. This is a rumor and Hackman has denied it, but he definitely refused to return for the Lester shot scenes in the second film. And when Kidder gave interviews about how the Salkinds treated Donner, she was written out of this movie for the most part - the cover story was that the Lois and Clark relationship had been "played out" in the first two film - and was replaced with Lana Lang (Annette O'Toole).The other big bad is the rich Ross "Bubba" Webster (Robert Vaughn). He keeps trying to take over the world's supply of needed elements, like coffee and oil. Superman keeps getting the best of him and he finds that August "Gus" Gorman (Pryor) is good with stealing money through complicated computer systems - Office Space was inspired by his big plan - and uses him to destroy Superman.Huh?Superman ends up getting seduced by Lorelei Ambrosia (Pamela Stephenson) who somehow gets him to destroy an oil tanker and then Ross' sister Vera Webster (Annie Ross) ends up being a cyborg and oh yeah, Superman ends up splitting into two halves after a nervous breakdown with one side being a dark Superman and a good Clark Kent. They fight in a junkyard and Superman comes back, only for a supercomputer to learn how to make kryptonite and man, I hate this movie.I absolutely hate this movie.You know when Marvel fans complain about so much comedy and She-Hulk twerking and the Snyder cut? Let them have this movie. Ten-year-old Sam was beyond mad, the kind of mad that doesn't go away. Ever. In my lifetime. I mean, a rumor that Tony Danza was going to take over shows that this movie could have been even worse.This is a movie where evil Superman rights the Leaning Tower of Pisa and blows out the Olympic flame.Oh no, Superman. How will we recover?Then again, Brad Wilson, the rival of Superman for the affections of Lana, is Gavin O'Herlihy and just three years later, Charles Bronson would shoot him with a rocket launcher.
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