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  Superman II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Superman catches the falling elevator, helps Lois out, she warns him of the bomb, and he takes the elevator out the top of the shaft and into space.
In 2005, several Superman movie fans attempted to bring the film closer to Donner's original vision by creating their own professionally-made video restoration of the "International Cut" and offered free DVDs of it on one of the many Superman fan sites, but their efforts were thwarted by Warner Bros., who are reportedly threatening legal action.
In the Fortress of Solitude, Superman flings what appears to be a cellophane version of his S-insignia at one of the villains, trapping him temporarily.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Superman_II   (1965 words)

  
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Non and Zod take no notice of him; when he is held out politely to Ursa, she instinctively turns away with a grimace of disgust; Jak-El makes a face he thinks will amuse a baby but just makes him cry.
Superman goes to the crystal panel-bank and passes his hand across certain crystals (or pushes a button, or whatever the activating technique is) and then lays himself down on the transparent, forbidding slab.
Non stands by what is left of the General Store: Jak-El is now in front of Johnny Greer' s garage by the gas pump; Ursa stands with General Zod, who, as we JOIN them, is in the middle of another speech.
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 Stomp Tokyo Review - Superman II
The indisputable highlight of Superman II is the blowout fight between Superman and the three super-criminals.
Superman purists may cringe a little bit at the portrayal of their favorite superhero in Superman II.
Superman is definitely recognizable as the hero from the comic books, he is pitched against a formidable opponent, and there are plenty of opportunities for super-powered grandstanding.
www.stomptokyo.com /movies/superman-ii.html   (858 words)

  
 Superman II Movie Rewind «
Superman II shorthands the prosecution and sentencing and substitutes an off-screen voice-over actor for Brando.
Many Superman fans felt that revenge wasn't Superman's gig and this was far from a fair fight, but the humor of the scene permitted the filmmakers to go super-square for their ending, with Superman flying the flag back to the White House and apologizing to the President.
Superman II is full of holes like that, but they don't detract too much from the overall product, which was highly successful and one of the highest-grossing sequels of all time.
www.fast-rewind.com /supermanii.htm   (4058 words)

  
 Movies - Superman Homepage
Non is still practicing his heat vision when Ursa walks into the local lunch counter and challenges one of the locals to an arm wrestle.
Superman decides that he must leave Metropolis and go to a more secluded area, even though the people do not understand what he is doing and scream for him not to leave them.
Also, Superman finally confronts a problem in which he must use his brains to stop a group that, with their powers combined, are more powerful than he.
www.supermanhomepage.com /movies/movies.php?topic=m-movie2   (6102 words)

  
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SUPERMAN leans in as LOIS trembles involuntarily: they kiss for the very first time - a kiss so good that half the world would settle for just one like that in their whole lives.
SUPERMAN'S VOICE And there....past the Desert of Rozz, that's the capitol city, KANDOR, where I was born....
ANGLE ON NON NON streaks down for the kill, is suddenly battered by a withering barrage of bullets from the POLICE which buzz by and bounce off him like a swarm of irritating flies.
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 Superman II (1980)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
There are two versions of the film "Superman II." One is the vision of acclaimed director Richard Donner, full of color flourishes, and camera work by the late Geoffrey Unsworth.
Simply titles "Superman II", the Richard Lester version is full of clumsy comedy, amateur plotting, and is nowhere near as affective as the Donner version.
Because of budget problems and deadline, the producers could not finish the re-shoot and "Superman II", and had to fill the gaps with Donner footage from the vault, making "Superman II" confusing and abstruce, and that is what made "Superman II" an atavistic failure.
us.imdb.com /Title?0081573   (1053 words)

  
 Superman II
Superman might be the mightiest hero of them all, but he abhors violence.
Superman tries to get Luthor to talk the villains into stepping into the molecule chamber so he can remove their powers, but Luthor double crosses him and squeals.
Superman was never again to have such a challenge until he faced the monster Doomsday in his comic book...and died.
www.badmovieplanet.com /inferno/archives/superman2.html   (1840 words)

  
 Superman II
Much like Superman, Superman II has an opening scene to be reckoned with.
Superman II begins with footage from the previous film, including all the highlights that made that movie great.
Superman has since recanted his powers, but upon hearing the news of Zod's arrival, he must journey back to the fortress to regain what he had given up.
www.geocities.com /moviecritic.geo/reviews/s/superman2.html   (673 words)

  
 Superman II (1980)
The cast were very upset with this decision, but the show had to go on, and indeed it did with Superman II opening to audiences in 1981.
    It is immediately clear that Superman II does not fare as well in the transfer stakes as the magnificently restored Superman, though this did not come as a surprise.
Superman's costume was often quite striking, though during many flying scenes it did take on a strange hue as a result of using a different costume that worked with the then-popular blue-screen process - something which the colour-corrected Superman does not suffer from.
www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=372   (1065 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Superman II: DVD: Ned Beatty,Roger Brierley,Jackie Cooper,Richard Donner,Sarah Douglas,Gene Hackman,Clifton ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Superman II has approximately 28 minutes of additional footage (not including the scenes with Marlon Brando, which no one will ever see due to legal actions taken by the actor).
Richard Donner (who directed the first Superman movie) shot most of the Superman II footage before being fired and replaced by Richard Lester, who had to re-shoot roughly half of the film so that Donner would not have to be credited.
Superman II is a classic superhero movie which I would have given 5 stars.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000059XUI?v=glance   (2557 words)

  
 Superman II mistakes, goofs and bloopers
Other: In the beginning, when Superman is flying to the Eiffel Tower, the last scene that shows him flying towards the tower, you can see the wire Christopher Reeve was attached to as he swoops down.
When Superman arrives to save her, there is suddenly a LOT more distance from the elevator to the ground than there was just a moment before.
At the beginning of the first Superman film General Zod's hair looks as if it has been blow-dried, but all through Superman II he looks like he uses wet-look gel.
www.moviemistakes.com /film1246   (914 words)

  
 DVDActive - Reviews - DVD - Superman II (UK - R2)
Superman II is more of a continuation of the first film than a sequel, with many of the original's unresolved issues finding closure here.
Like its predecessor, Superman II is presented in anamorphic widescreen in its theatrical ratio of 2.35:1, with an average bitrate of 5.93Mb/sec.
Superman II is a continuation of the original, and as such should have at least have been given the same treatment in the video and audio departments if nothing else.
www.dvdactive.com /reviews/dvd/superman-ii2.html   (954 words)

  
 DVD Empire - Item - Superman II / DVD-Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
SUPERMAN II is widely considered one of the best sequels of all time.
I happened to have a version of Superman II taped off of ABC back from the early 80's and there are little scenes and comments, enough to matter, that have been cut out of this DVD version to really get annoying.
Superman II - Dammit; why'd they fire Dick Donner...
www.dvdempire.com /Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=25200&partner_id=29346865   (539 words)

  
 Techtite DVD Reviews
The inevitable climactic battle between Zod, Ursa, Non, and Superman, is nothing short of spectacular.
It may have overdone comedy at times, though only in small amounts, and the remainder of the movie is still far better than what is offered in similar films, 99% percent of the time.
In the screen test, we learn the original idea was to have Lois slyly discover Kent was Superman, by acting like she was going to shoot him with a gun actually filled with blanks.
www.techtite.com /Reviews/Dvd/2001/Superman2.html   (909 words)

  
 Katapekkia! - Blogs | Multiblog sociale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Non resta altro da dire che aspettare e vedere cosa ne sarà di questo Hulk 2 probabilmente "a noleggio".
Se non ve la sentite di vedere delle immagini così cruente, consiglio caldamente di saltare alcune parti.
Non bastava il virus H5N1 dell'influenza A(viaria) a scatenare inutili paure e panico.
www.katapekkia.altervista.org   (1557 words)

  
 SUPERMAN II (1980)
Superman: The Movie and Superman 2 finally has been released in Region 2.
Superman Homepage has the info about the dvd for Superman: The Movie.
Richard Donner was fired from Superman 2 and had completed 70 percent of the movie.
www.angelfire.com /ca6/jackohalloran/supermanII.html   (1077 words)

  
 Superman II trivia
Marlon Brando was offered the opportunity to reprise his role as Jor-El from the first film, but he was unwilling to reprise his role for this film.
Richard Donner, the director of Superman, was originally hired to make Superman II.
Jack O'Halloran who played Non was a professional boxer between 1966 and 1974.
www.moviemistakes.com /film1246/trivia   (234 words)

  
 Superman II - Wikiquote
Superman II 1980 film, the sequel to Superman (1978), continues the adventures of the orphan Kryptonian who has become the world's greatest hero.
Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to marry Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.
Superman: [laughs] No. Actually, I live in the city, about three blocks from you.
en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Superman_II   (2146 words)

  
 Help Restore Superman II!
Superman and Superman II were originally conceived as one film project.
When Superman hurled the nuclear missle into space at the end of the first film, THAT's what released the villains from the Phantom Zone to come back in the second film.
Superman says good-bye to Lois in another of Donner's missing scenes.
theforbidden-zone.com /supermanii/index.shtml   (910 words)

  
 Superman: The Movie/Superman II DVD - MovieWeb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Richard Donner's big-budget blockbuster Superman: The Movie is an immensely entertaining recounting of the origin of the famous comic book character.
Opening on Krypton (where Marlon Brando plays Superman's father), the film follows the Man of Steel (Christopher Reeve) as he's sent to Earth where he develops his alter-ego Clark Kent and is raised by a Midwestern family.
Superman: The Movie is filled with action, special effects and a surprising amount of humor.
movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?012569696587   (268 words)

  
 Aggiungi un commento | Katapekkia! - Blogs
Mancherebbe anche il mitico Thor, di cui non ho notizie specifiche ma credo sia in programma anche lui.
Per la Dc aspettate un attimo, ora non ho tempo per rispondere(quante cose da fare e cosi' poco tempo...)ma nel prossimo post (che arriverà presto) mi dilungherò a parlarne.
Non fu un grande successo altrimenti me ne ricorderei bene, fu un classico prodotto mediocre con effetti speciali mediocri degli anni 80(periodo buio per il cinema in generale).
katapekkia.altervista.org /?q=comment/reply/374   (507 words)

  
 Superman II blunders - The Superhero Hype! Boards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Continuity: When Superman goes into the chamber at the fortess to lose his powers he looks like he is in agony yet when he tricks the villans at the end they dont respond the same way.
Continuity: We see from the first film that Superman can fly at pratically limitless speed and indeed when Lois Lane dies he flies out into space a circulates the Earth several times in seconds.
Other: Roughly 5-10 minutes form the end, Superman is returning the White House's flag to it's rightful place, flying over the fountain on the lawn...which is frozen solid in place.
www.superherohype.com /forums/showthread.php?t=69556   (1478 words)

  
 Superman II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Superman was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
We don't pretend or assume that we have anything to do with any professional, semi-professional, or entertainment sports or publishing organizations.
If we made an error, we will do whatever is reasonable to fix it.
www.thesupermanmovie.com /SupermanII.html   (141 words)

  
 SUPERMAN II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
General Zod (played by Terrance Stamp) and his cohorts Non and Ursa are inadvertently released from the Phantom Zone after Supes throws a nuclear bomb into space.
Clark can't be Superman while dating a human so he relinquishes his powers and finds that it's a sucks to be normal.
E-mail me or we can talk about Superman II along with others at ImDb.
filebox.vt.edu /a/away/website/supermanII_page.htm   (203 words)

  
 Amazon.fr :  Superman II : DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Superman races to the rescue and undertakes a series of mighty struggles...
Quand Superman met les bouchées doubles pour réduire à zéro les trois rebelles de la planète Krypton qui veulent soumettre la Terre à leurs quatre volontés, il y a de l'action dans l'air !
Tourné dans la foulée du premier épisode, on pourrait dire que Superman 2 a été co-réalisé par Richard Lester ET Richard Donner.
www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005LL1G   (755 words)

  
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Zod, Ursa and Non (Terence Stamp, Sarah Douglas and Jack O'Halloran) use the threat of harm to Lois (Margot Kidder) to force Kal-El (Christopher Reeve) into the chamber that will remove his superpowers.
Unbeknownst to them, he has turned the chamber 'inside-out,' and it is their powers that are removed.
I guess they got some flack over Superman actually killing somebody...
www.moviepooper.com /2/886.html   (139 words)

  
 WeirdSpace - Encyclopedia of fictional characters
Sentinel II from Rob Liefeld's part of the original Image Universe.
The original Kryptonian name for Superman from the Superman Dailies.
Superman's secret identity in Kandor on pre-crisis Earth-1 (DC Comics).
www.weirdspace.dk   (4194 words)

  
 Superman II
Superman II The House of Checklists is provided as an information resource for
Character Profile 27 His Secret Revealed Story Summary 15 of 15 28 Flying to Superman's Pad Puzzle piece 29 Sky Trek Puzzle piece 30 Inside the Fortress of Solitude Movie Star Quotes 31 A Very Special Mission...
Story Summary 8 of 15 75 Speeding Across the World Puzzle piece 76 Invading Superman's Home Puzzle piece 77 Showdown at the Fortress of Solitude Puzzle piece 78 The Villains' Trump Card Puzzle piece 79 The Final Stand Puzzle piece 80 Lois Lane...
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 MovieGoods - Books
Full-color book includes the greatest collection of 1930s and 1940s serial 1 Sheet posters.
Great full-color illustrations of many of the best posters and lobby cards from the 1910s through the 1960s.
This book is 50% devoted to the films made about World War II, and the other 50% is devoted to all other wars, from ancient wars to the Gulf War.
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 NSU Magazine: NSU Store
The Art of Basil Wolverton, Indiana Jones, All The President's Cards
Superman: R.I.P, A Guide to Mars Attacks, An Inside Look at Topps
Test cards, Dinosaur cards, Bazooka Joe cards, Milestone comic cards
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