Superman II
- Release Date
- December 4, 1980
- Director
- Richard Lester , Richard Donner
- Cast
- Gene Hackman , Christopher Reeve , Ned Beatty , Jackie Cooper , Sarah Douglas , Margot Kidder
- Runtime
- 127
- Main Genre
- Action
- Writers
- Jerry Siegel , Joe Shuster , Mario Puzo , David Newman , Leslie Newman , Tom Mankiewicz
- Tagline
- The three outlaws from Krypton descend to Earth to confront the Man of Steel in a cosmic battle for world supremacy.
Summary
The meta-human heritage of the Last Son Of Krypton is tested as never before when a series of misadventures unlocks in Superman a very human emotion - love. Superman's love for journalist Lois Lane reaches a seemingly impossible peak, but requires the ultimate sacrifice - as the incompatible molecular structure of Kal-El and Lois would gravely complicate the inevitable bearing of children, Kal-El must be purged of his superpower, to live as a mortal. Kal-El, despite the pleas of the spirit of his long-lost mother, willingly agrees, and now a normal human being, consummates his love for Lois - a decision that dooms the Earth as three criminals from Krypton, freed from their extra-dimensional prison, lay waste to the planet in a path of conquest aided by the planet's most arrogant criminal, Lex Luthor, who intends to smoke out Superman for his destruction - unaware as he is of The Man Of Steel's helplessness, a condition that only one last hope can rectify.
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