2014 Movie News Archives

November 9, 2014: Original 1978 Telegraph Review of "Superman: The Movie"

Superman: The Movie The Telegraph has republished its original 1978 review of "Superman: The Movie" by film critic Patrick Gibb, who gave the movie a 3 (out of 5) star rating saying, "Despite some good cliffhangers and being highly entertaining, Superman was undemanding fare."

    What with bridges going down, dams bursting and cars piling up on motorways following some big explosion, the film seems for a time to become mere destruction drama, but happily the lighter touch is eventually restored with Superman's arrival in the nick of time, to save his Lois and civilisation.

    All this makes a highly entertaining, though undemanding mixture, of sci-fi, romance and comedy, which could hardly have come off at all at any lower artistic level, nor without such a happy choice for the central part as Christopher Reeve. He manages the two sides of the character, the super and the shy, wonderfully well by bringing to both just the slightest suggestion of burlesque, as if, in fact, he was inwardly enjoying rather a good little joke.

Read the entire 1978 review of "Superman: The Movie" at The Telegraph website.



2014 Movie News

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