Superman
Upon the destruction of Krypton, superhuman via the help of his parents escapes his dying planet via a spaceship to Earth. He was adopted by the Kents who name the young Kryptonian Kent. He grew up to be a super being and exercised his super ability to save Earth he calls home.
1944, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
29 September 1913, Cliftonville, Kent, England, UK
31 March 1957, San Mateo, California, USA
13 February 1944, Safford, Arizona, USA
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1915, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
8 April 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
29 January 1943, Woking, Surrey, England, UK
2 October 1938, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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.
June 07, 2013
The most influential, if not definitive comic book superhero origin story we'll ever see.
July 14, 2010
It's the simple, earth-bound quality of the film that makes this comic-book fantasy soar.
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.
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.
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.
May 09, 2005
Superman is good, clean, simple-minded 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.
June 13, 2013
...a studio product, certainly, but also something that could have grown from one of Smallville's sun-kissed cornfields.
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.
December 10, 2015
It is this year's answer to "Star Wars," a movie that is pure escape and good, clean, unadulterated fun.
June 03, 2013
Christopher Reeve makes the character of Superman his own, while also reminding us of why we love the character.
