This second installment is a well-developed story, but it doesn’t prove to be any more fun than the initial film—I found them equally enjoyable. Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder are just as appealing as they were previously, although Gene Hackman's performance isn't quite as striking this time around; he’s still good, though. It was nice to have a greater focus on Zod, Ursa, and Non, primarily so I could see mo…

_**It picks up the expansive narrative of the revolutionary first movie**_ Three criminals from Krypton find their way out of confinement in the Phantom Zone (played by Terence Stamp, Sarah Douglas, and Jack O'Halloran) and begin causing trouble for people living in America, including the president (E.G. Marshall), while Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) tries to be friendly with them. At the same time, Lois Lane (Margot …

A lively and relatable follow-up manages to be pretty good. Superman II features Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Terence Stamp, Ned Beatty, Sarah Douglas, Margot Kidder, and Jack O'Halloran. Production was complicated, with two directors involved. Richard Donner had already completed roughly seventy-five percent of the movie before being replaced by Richard Lester to finish it up. Due to all the issues behind the…

It’s fitting that one of them was nicknamed Non, because that seemed to reflect his intelligence level. This is a really good follow-up that builds on the early moments in *Superman* (1978), when we were introduced to General Zod, Ursa, and Non – though I wouldn't dare call him anything unkind directly. (Maybe if I had something to stand on.) These three wrongdoers are accidentally freed from the Phantom Zone b…