At the Movies with Siskel & Ebert, 1983-The Man with 2 Brains, Superman III, Trading Places (1 of 2)

Superman III, tapping into the video game craze of 1983.

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[michaelthemovieman]

Interesting that Superman 3 uses sound effects from Pac-Man for Atari 2600 (watch at 4:32-4:36).

And considering what many people thought of both Superman 3 and that version of Pac-Man, it's almost poetic.

[TIPTON340]

Superman III was super awful, that isn't

Dolby your hearing but George Reeves turning in his grave.

[blinkzone1]

Richard Pryor played basically a wuss in this movie...

[Cigarelloman]

As a kid I liked all four superman movies, but part 2 was always my fav. Superman 3 always had a weird or strange feeling to it to me but I still liked it. Superman 4 use to come on HBO when I was like 5 years old and nuclear man use to scare the shit out of me. I had no idea how many people hated superman 4 until i got older. Some people prefer 3 to 4 and vice versa. Some days I liked 3 better and somedays I liked 4 better. All four movies still hold a special place in my childhood memories.

[Boogyman4050]

Most critics called this SuperTurd 3, and then SuperTurd 4 came out. Then an attempt to bring back the feeling of the good movies Superman and Superman 2, we get SuperTurd Returns. Returns had great effects and made another attempt at showing Luthor trying to kill Superman with Kryptonite. In Turd 3, the script sucked so bad, they had to put Richard in it, just to keep the audience interested. They should flush all 3 turds down the toilet. 1 and 2 are the only ones worth being called Superman m

[BRm2008]

Richard pryor was awesome in this. plus i plain love it.

superman IV was mediocre and superman returns was boring and had aweful australian accents in the news casters/ and plane shuttle scene

[BRm2008]

superman 3 was better than superman returns and superman IV.

[BRm2008]

@Panorama1981 same here. i liked superman III. superman IV is a mediocre movie though. the fx sucked in that one.

[Lotmeister]

"Superman III" was the middle of the end for the franchise. The beginning was when the Salkinds fired Richard Donner and had Richard Lester take over the second film. Lester just didn't have the feel for the material that Donner did, and the franchise became a big-budget, live-action cartoon instead of the modern mythology it started out as.

[KronantheBarbarian]

Um less time should have been spent with Richard Pryor he's got no business in a Superman film.

[DarPower1]

@TIPTON340 oh wow so clever!

[Panorama1981]

I'm one of the few who liked Superman III.