Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yields some unexpected psychological effects in the third installment of the 1980s Superman franchise. Between rekindling romance with his high school sweetheart and saving himself, Superman must contend with a powerful supercomputer.
The only redeeming aspects of this failure is the good vs evil Superman fight in the scrap yard and seeing Superman act like a prick for a little while. Richard Lester should have never been given the keys to this franchise and what they were thinking giving Richard Pryor such a role and seemingly telling him to do whatever he wants is even more bewildered. Too much slapstick, too much 'comedy', a poor villain (Superman fights a computer at the end) and the beginning of the end for this franchise after the good work Richard Donner did with the first two.
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