No match for the Superman sequel

Rating: Null/10 (22 July 2004)

So, this is Â‘the best superhero movie of all time', is it? That's the absurd line being peddled by a number of UK critics. So where are the truly memorable set-pieces: the Eiffel Tower elevator, Niagara Falls, the arctic ice palace? Where are the villains who are actually bad, rather than temporarily misguided, and who you actually have any interest in seeing killed? I'm talking about Superman 2, of course. This second Spider-Man movie is a slight improvement on the woeful trash of the first, but it's still banal, joyless, forgettable tripe; it's the kind of perniciously inane summer fodder that seems to lower the IQ of anyone who sees it. And the idea that we need a third one of these, with the guy in the goblin costume again, just beggars belief.