Uch. At least Superman III had some camp value; everyone in the third installment showed up to work, in any case, but this one is just bad — Reeve is given miserable dialogue, even clonkier than usual for the character, and does not make his disdain for it a secret; Hackman just looks exhausted; Jon Cryer tries heroically with his bit part, but I find him boundlessly irritating, always, and said part is so dated as to be almost incomprehensible, even to people who remember 1987; Mariel Hemingway…is Mariel Hemingway. It’s not that she can’t act; it’s that her face just isn’t very mobile. And again, her dialogue — you can’t expect much from her with the lines she gets. Just completely dumb and slapped together, and the effects are insultingly bad to boot. (7/1/06)

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