Review of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) by Allan C — 10 Sep 2016

So I recently re-watched "Superman III" and was taken aback by how bad it was, to the point where I wondered if this famously bad fourth Superman film, where Superman crusades for nuclear disarmament, was actually better than the terrible third film.

Well, this film is actually worse. After Superman gets rid of all the world's nukes, Lex Luthor makes a Nuclear Man powered by the sun (shouldn't he be solar powered then?) who the Man of Steel must battle.

This film was make even more interesting after having recently watched the documentary "Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films" in which this film was featured prominently in the decline of Canon when they abandoned their successful formula of churning out reliable low budget genre pictures and then unsuccessfully tried to branch out into bigger projects like this (which in the end looked very cheap in comparison to earlier films in the series).

Cheap, uninteresting, and really an embarrassment for all the talent involved in this film. Oh, and this film seems to feature Pepsi just about everywhere!