Rating:  -
After the terrible Superman III, a comedy in which Richard Pryor was the star and Christopher Reeve was nearly a supporting role, the Superman series made a semi-successful return to its roots for the fourth and final feature.
Reportedly, Reeves refused to reprise his role unless (a) the original cast came back, and (b)there was a socially relevent plot about nuclear disarmament.
As a result, the entire original cast is back, unlike in III where Margot Kidder as Lois Lane was only a cameo and Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor was sorely missed.
The cast is suberb, but there are two huge problems, one being the afore mentioned socially relevent plot, the other being crummy, low-budget effects.
The movie was cut to pieces during editing, and as a result it doesn't really make sense (the bulk of the deleted scenes are included on this DVD, but to be honest, they don't add much). But it tells and interesting enough story.
The reason fans have been so cruel to it over the years is that the effects were just awful, especially compared to Superman I. but if you can look past that, it's a movie with a pretty good story (grnated, some annoying supposrting characters and a few subplots that go nowhere), and it's the classic Superman cast together again. So if you're a fan of Sueprman, you really can't go wrong.
In conclusion, there's only this to say: it's better than Superman III.
Rating:  -
If "Batman and Robin" (1997) is looks like "Gone with the Wind" in comparison to this ill-advised movie. It is truly one of the worst movies ever made. The special effects look dated compared to the movie in 78! There is something wrong here. Even Gene Hackman, who probably was bore so he decided to do this movie, cannot save this horrible film.
Christopher Reeve, who had a major hand in developing this movie, probably meant well, but good intentions do not make a good movie - good filmaking does.
Even the 1970s Spider-man TV show looks good in comparison. Watch only for laughter.
Rating: -
Ok, we all know that Superman 4 sucks. Nuclear man was ridicoulous, Superman preforms ridicoulous actions, and it's boring.
However, there are some good scenes that were deleted from all previous DVD Releases. This has the first nuclear man (the one on the cover is actually Nuclear Man2), who resembled Bizarro in every way. Seeing him in the deleted scenes really made me happy I went and bought this movie.
All in all, the movie isn't very good, but the deleted ones are, and Gene Hackman is always great as Lex Luthor as Christoper Reeves was Superman. If only they had a better budget and never made Nuclear Man2, because he sucked bigtime.
To all Bizarro fans; buy this movie.
Rating: -
So, I got this to see all the deleted footage. Well, they could have restored the footage... Unfinished special effects?! Come on WB, fans have waited a long time to see this footage, and we get unfinished scenes? Give us Superman IV with all the scenes restored and put back in the movie as it was intended to be. Give it 5.1 surround audio. I hate watching movies that sound like I Love Lucy episodes. I rated this a 1 based on the movie content and sound quality, not on Superman and Christopher Reeve. Will Superman IV ever get a restored Extended/Directors Cut with 5.1 audio?
Rating:  -
C'mon folks, where is the rest of this flic? This 90 minutes version seems more like an extended episode of Smallville, but not as good. I can accept the far-fetched plot points, pushing the moon, etc, (this is based on comic books not reality) but this badly edited disaster couldn't be saved, even by Super Christopher Reeves.
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