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...gets your attention and refuses to back down: stop signs, sunsets, the Russian flag, and fire engines are colored not for visibilities sake, but to stop action, halt movement, and freeze thought. If Santa wasn't dressed in red, how could little children believe in his omniscience? Could Superman bring truth and justice to the world if he had a yellow cape? Clearly...
When Christopher Reeve finally wriggled out of his contract after "Superman III," Alexander and Ilya Salkind, producers of the Superman films, were left with a Superman films, were left with a property and no star. Replacing Reeve would not be an easy task...
...first hall of "Superman The Movie" was devoted to establishing the origins of the Man of Steel "Supergirl" does the same in 15 minutes. Argo City, a surviving Kryptonian colony in "inner space," depends on the omegahedron for its energy. Chief Scientist Zaltar (Peter O'Toole) steals the magic ball, Supergirl loses it, and then steals Zaltar's ship to find it. Arriving on earth in full costume, she starts hunting for the MacGuffin (Alfred Hitchcock's) word for the jewel/microfilm/painting/whatever that everyone is hunting for in a typical thriller...
THOUGH THE Salkinds may not have realized it at the time, finding Reeve was a luckier break than getting the Newmans. Almost the perfect physical match for a Superman, he could project the boyish charm that made both the ego-busting muscleman and the nebbish newsman palatable and credible. Underneath the red and blue Reeve kept enough of the sly midwestern farm boy to make Superman's schizophrenic life a myth rooted in the American ideals of silent strength and self-effacing mannerisms. None of the Superman films ever fully descended into campy self-parody, because Reeve made...
...main pleasures of Superman is watching him bash buildings, save trains, and most important, commit assault on people in amusing ways. The cartoon violence in Supergirl is so tepid that we can only wonder if Szware was worried about in timidating males insecure about muscle bound women. The persons Supergirl bashes are two painfully stereotypical redneck truckers with ungentlemanly designs on Supergirl's too, too solid flesh. She can't even bring herself to hit the amazingly unthreatening invisible monster that tears up the countryside, choosing for some unknown reason a more ladylike lightning bolt. And why is it that...