Superman II (1980)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.7/10   

Director:

Richard Lester

Escritores:

Jerry Siegel (characters) &
Joe Shuster (characters) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

19 junio 1981 (USA)

Género:

Aventura | Romance | Ciencia-Ficción

Frase comercial:

Miraculously freed from eternal orbit, the three outlaws from Krypton descend to earth, for the ultimate confrontation.

Plot:

Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to marry Lois, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.

Plot Keywords:

Superman | Criminal | Paris | Prison | Phantom Zone

Premios:

1 win & 3 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

The Greatest Adventure in the Superman Series

Reparto

Gene Hackman	...	Lex Luthor
Christopher Reeve	...	Superman / Clark Kent
Ned Beatty	...	Otis
Jackie Cooper	...	Perry White
Sarah Douglas	...	Ursa
Margot Kidder	...	Lois Lane
Jack O'Halloran	...	Non
Valerie Perrine	...	Eve Teschmacher
Susannah York	...	Lara
Clifton James	...	Sheriff
E.G. Marshall	...	The President
Marc McClure	...	Jimmy Olsen
Terence Stamp	...	General Zod
Leueen Willoughby	...	Leueen
Robin Pappas	...	Alice

También conocida como:

Superman 2 (Australia) (TV title)
Superman II (Argentina) (Spain) [es]

Duración:

127 min | USA:116 min (Richard Donner Cut)

País:

UK

Idioma:

Inglés | Francés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

2.20 : 1

Sonido:

70 mm 6-Track (MegaSound encoding) (70 mm prints) | Dolby (35 mm prints)

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | South Korea:Todo | Brazil:Livre | New Zealand:PG | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Canada:G | Chile:TE | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Norway:12 (1980) | Peru:PT | Singapore:PG | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | USA:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage, Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Compañía:

Alexander Salkind

Trivialidades:

Actor Gene Hackman did not return for the second film and all his scenes were originally filmed by director Richard Donner. Existing scenes that required Hackman used a look-alike and a voice impersonator to add any lines needed.

Errores:

Errores que Revelan: When the villains appear in the small town, Zod uses his levitation powers to lift a man with a shotgun up into the air. When he releases the man and he hits the ground you can see the false ground bounce from the impact.

Citas:

[first lines]
Krypton guard: Alert, alert, alert.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman' (2001) (V)

Banda de Sonido:

Pick Up the Pieces

The Greatest Adventure in the Superman Series

This Superman movie has got to be the bench mark for future producers of Superman movies. They must be sat down with this film, because it is an absolute classic, and as far as Superman films go it will be hard to top. Richard Lester, is not very popular with some Superman fans, because he took over on a movie that they feel would have been better had Richard Donner been allowed to complete. But Lester has his admirers, and iam one of them. The first Superman movie tended to go along with boring philosophising, or over sentimental dramatics, these are mainly absent in Superman II,. They are replaced with cut to the action dramatics by Richard Lester who in my opinion saved the movie, or at least made it all the more exciting. I enjoy his sense of comic book adventure, and the final Times Square battle between Superman vs Zod,Non and Ursa is straight out of a comic book and is all Lesters. The main thing that complements the movie is the towering performance by Christopher Reeve as Clark Kent/Superman. Reeve is hillarious in his Cary Grant-a-like interpretation of Kent and wonderfull as a humanistic Superman. Margot Kidder is fabulous to and it is the acting of theese two that makes the Superman//Lois love triangle work. Terance Stamp as Zod is very creepy, and Sarah Douglas as Ursa very sexy, but the man who very nearly steels the show is Gene Hackman hilarious as Lex Luther. The special effects are brilliant, because they look glossy, and the Ken Thorne variation of John Williams Superman theme is at its best here. The best aspects though is the action, the aforementioned Times Square battle, and the interaction between the actors. Well done Richard Lester. A True classic of Superhero cinema.