Superman has been a patriotic force on the big screen seemingly forever, but Richard Donner and his team did it best in 1978. Except for Superman II, none of the sequels or reboots hold any kind of candle to Donner's Supes, especially when it comes to the ways in which Christopher Reeve chose to play him. He's great when he's Superman, but greater at playing Clark Kent. No one else has ever come close. This, of course, is a film with Marlon Brando as Space Dad, Gene Hackman as the arch rival and Margot Kidder as the lovable love interest, yet this flick belongs to the newcomer Reeve. As for the story, there are some flaws in logic, even considering this story is such a fantasy to begin with. After all, we're talking about an alien boy scout who gets sick around rocks from his home planet, yet tries his time-travelling best to stop a violent land swindler from destroying Hollywood. Anyway, Ryan is working alone on this one---and talking about most of the Kal-El movies---but the focus is on the blockbuster from 45 years ago in this, the 521st fast fly of Have You Ever Seen.

Update about the Henry Cavill Superman films: reviews for Man Of Steel, Batman v Superman and the theatrical cut of Justice League were not very good and, while they didn't exactly bomb at the box office, they certainly weren't the mega-hits that Warner Brothers expected. Also, Kirk Alyn and Noel Neill played Clark & Lois in the 1940s Superman "serial", not "sequel".

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