I remember watching this film in cinema when I was just a young boy.  It was the first time I had ever seen a film with Christopher Reeves in and was thought quite enjoyable.  It includes some famous actors; especially Marlon Brando.

The Plot.

At the beginning of the movie we learn about superman’s planet of birth is about to be destroyed and his father Durrel launches his son Callel or something like that into space.  The hope is to send him to a planet that he can live on and that planet turns out to be Earth.

When his space ship lands; a elderly couple sees the crash and goes to see what just happened and spots a little boy.  They take the boy back to the car and at some point the cars suffers a puncture.  The old man gets out the car and starts to replace the flat tyre but the cars falls off the jack but before it can cause any damage; the boy lifts the car up (I must point out that I haven’t seen this film for a while and my memory is hazy). 

Latter on I think the old man dies and leaves his wife and adopted son to fend for themselves.

The films moves forward a few years and we next see superman who takes on the persona of Clarke Kent and he’s trying to get a job at a newspaper called the Daily Bugle.  This is where we first meet the feisty women called Louis Lane ace reporter and sometimes, trouble maker (well; she certainly is the cause of some of superman’s rescues). 

We learn of the super genius called Lex Luther (well he thinks he is but for a genius is rather stupid in my opinion) who decides that he wants to change the western coast of the US.  He starts buying ridiculous stretches of land and this is when the Daily Bugle sends Louis and Clarke to find out why.

It turns out that Lex has decided to remove the eastern coast of America and then sell off the land that he owns at very high prices.  The problem with that idea would be that the government would just take it back and use it to re-house  the homeless but, for this film to work we have to ignore that and imagine the government wouldn’t.  So how do you remove a massive piece of land like this?  Simple; we’ll steal a nuclear bomb and detonate it on the San Andreas fault, causing the entire area to drop into the magma beneath it.

Of course superman has to save the day and all is well.

It must be said that this is really a film for the comic book fan.  I didn’t really like it that much when I first saw this movie but, found that over the years was more enjoyable each time I watched it.