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Superman
The film depicts Superman's origin, including his infancy as Kal-El of Krypton and his youthful years in the rural town of Smallville. When the evil Lex Luthor plans to take over the world, Superman is the only one who can stop him.
17 October 1948, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
12 April 1921, Bronxville, New York, USA
1938, Wyke Regis, England, UK
1930
17 August 1948, Tampa, Florida, USA
3 September 1943, Galveston, Texas, USA
10 July 1930, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
16 April 1949, Miami, Florida, USA
1925, Houghton-le-Spring, Durham, England, UK
6 December 1921, London, England, UK
15 September 1922, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 November 1918, London, England, UK
June 13, 2013
...a studio product, certainly, but also something that could have grown from one of Smallville's sun-kissed cornfields.
June 03, 2013
Christopher Reeve makes the character of Superman his own, while also reminding us of why we love the character.
June 24, 2006
By keeping the spectacular possibilities open, through the opening scenes of the destruction of Krypton, and the subsequent growth to manhood of the planet's only son on the plains of the Midwest, the film allows naiveté and knowingness to coexist.
June 06, 2011
Superman still remains the best superhero movie ever made, full of humor, heart, and an iconic performance by Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel.
November 09, 2014
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.
July 09, 2012
Christopher Reeve essays the title role and makes it his own, combining correctly chiseled features with a likable comic humanity, while the film itself nicely balances special effects with the romance of Superman and Lois Lane.
January 15, 2013
Superman doesn't have enough conviction or courage to be solidly square and dumb; it keeps pushing smarmy big emotions at us -- but half-heartedly.
June 07, 2013
The most influential, if not definitive comic book superhero origin story we'll ever see.
May 09, 2005
Superman is good, clean, simple-minded fun...
July 14, 2010
It's the simple, earth-bound quality of the film that makes this comic-book fantasy soar.
December 10, 2015
It is this year's answer to "Star Wars," a movie that is pure escape and good, clean, unadulterated fun.
April 17, 2007
The film is best when it takes itself seriously, worst when it takes the easy way out in giggly camp -- as it does, finally and fatally, when Lex Luthor enters the action.