Title: Cheesy slapstick and absent Lois ruined Superman III
Product review: After the Salkinds (the Superman film's producers) fired Richard Donner (who directed Superman: The Movie and much of Superman II), several people involved in the first two films (including Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder) made the world know how angry they were at the producers for Donner's mistreatment. When Superman III came along they couldn't really fire Reeve (the star) so they wrote Kidder out of the story to punish her for mouthing off. Without the Lois Lane/Superman love story, the film had no heart in it at all. Then, director Richard Lester did with Superman III what he really wanted to do with Superman II all along, and that was make a slapstick comedy. This undermined the whole Superman theme and made a joke out of the franchise. The only element in Superman II that didn't work was the slapstick that Lester added to the mix.
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