Somehow, through all the Lester muck, the compelling Christopher Reeve sells the melodrama.

| Jun 21, 2023

While hardly a disaster, it still qualifies as a massive disappointment.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 13, 2023

Neither Christopher Reeve's performance nor the VFX are enough to make up for Superman III being a very unwatchable film.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 9, 2023

Superman III belongs to Richard Pryor as Gus Gorman who gives a marvelously understated comic performance.

| Aug 1, 2022

The franchise is guaranteed money, so why did Warner Brothers decide to spend even less money on this trash?

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 16, 2022

Perhaps most unfitting of all is Ken Thorne's new score, which is peppered with circusy ditties, sound effects, and musical cues.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Jan 2, 2022

The plot is nonsensical, as if different scenes were written in isolation without any conception of how to connect them together.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 30, 2021

See this movie for Richard Pryor. Play on your cell phone during the rest. Frankly it's what Gus Gorman would want you to do.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 9, 2021

The film's predecessors were extremely smooth renderings of the comic strip material, but Superman III looks as chintzy as a Grade-B movie serial.

| Aug 13, 2020

If not as exhilarating as Superman II, Superman III is surprising and boisterously witty.

| Aug 13, 2020

The action is good but this doesn't move the audience in the same way as the first two.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 13, 2020

One expects romance, humor and grandeur, but only gets a frustrating mixture of failed opportunities and missed chances. Bummer.

| Aug 13, 2020

For fans of superhero action this is still enjoyable enough entertainment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 13, 2020

It looks like a comic book, and Lester has seized upon the anything-goes cartoonishness to create a haywire comedy of absurdities and non sequiturs that matches the cuckoo rhythms of the screenplay.

| May 30, 2019

Right from the beginning you know they are going for total slapstick with a pratfall routine where telephone booths are toppled over. It gets worse from there.

| Original Score: D | Apr 13, 2019

Superman III may be the saddest dissappointment of the summer movie season.

| Mar 4, 2019

Reeve, the ongoing justification for the series, is no longer contractually obligated after this episode, and his liberation comes not an installment too soon.

| Apr 23, 2018

Superman is thrown in to the mix somewhere. But he's merely an after thought, and a supporting player in his own film.

| Jun 12, 2013

A noticeable drop in quality from the first two, but it's still decent enough that you don't have to be embarrassed for liking it. That comes soon enough...

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Jun 10, 2013

Outdated superhero movie may interest older kids.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 15, 2010