
Superman does a lot in his newest adventure. Archvillain Lex Luthor, determined to make the world safe for nuclear arms merchants, creates a new being to challenge the Man of Steel: the radiation-charged Nuclear Man. The two super-powered foes clash in an explosive screen extranvaganza that sees Superman save the Statue of Liberty, repulse a volcanic eruption of Mount Etna, rebuild the demolished Great Wall of China and perform many more spetactular feats.... (Full plot summary below)
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Superman does a lot in his newest adventure. Archvillain Lex Luthor, determined to make the world safe for nuclear arms merchants, creates a new being to challenge the Man of Steel: the radiation-charged Nuclear Man. The two super-powered foes clash in an explosive screen extranvaganza that sees Superman save the Statue of Liberty, repulse a volcanic eruption of Mount Etna, rebuild the demolished Great Wall of China and perform many more spetactular feats.
Leave your thoughts about Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.
| Los Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonThe overall effect is of a story atomized and dying before our eyes, collapsing into smashed pulp, ground down into big-budget Kryptonite ash. |
| The New York TimesJanet MaslinThreadbare as it's beginning to look, the Superman series hasn't lost its raison d'etre. There's life in the old boy yet. |
| Tampa Bay TimesThomas B. HarrisonDirector Sidney J. Furie, whose previous career high-point was either The Ipcress File or Lady Sings the Blues, fumbles the tone as badly as Richard Lester did in Superman III, veering drunkenly from action/adventure to comedy. Gone is the sense of naïve grandeur that made the original Superman such an endearing production. |
| Chicago ReaderPat GrahamBy ordinary movie standards it's awful, but fans of cinematic dementia should have fun for about half an hour. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonMore sluggish than a funeral barge, cheaper than a sale at K mart, it's a nerd, it's a shame, it's Superman IV. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittAs the hero, Christopher Reeve oozes with sincerity in the world-peace scenes - he helped write the story of the film, and this may be why he overdoes it. But he's also funny when he gets back to being klutzy Clark Kent, so the movie doesn't completely drown in its own good intentions. |
| Miami HeraldBill CosfordSuperman IV, except for a glitzy new villain named Nuclear Man, is one of the cheesiest movies ever made. It's so grainy and grossly envisioned, it seems filmed on pulp. Superman's crystalline Arctic palace looks as if it's made of no-deposit-no-return soda bottles, and his suit of primary colors has ring around the collar. |
| IGNSteve MurphySo, to sum it up, Superman IV: The Quest For Peace is only slightly better than being trapped in a bear hug with Jan DeBont, and several steps below having an esoteric conversation with the Ghoulies. |
| Chicago TribuneDave KehrThe impoverishment here is not merely of means, but of spirit. |
| New TimesLuke Y. ThompsonGreat cast, terrible premise, done ultra-cheap. Sad Supes had to go out like this. |