Watched this to get in the Holiday mood with some friends. We all had a lovely time.

It's been about two or so years since I viewed this for the first time and I still find new things to appreciate about it after each new viewing around the season.

From the score, to the actors, to the direction, to even the dated mid seventies visuals, everything feels like a genuine sense of care was put into creating the best possible creation of this character for the big screen.

This movie is absolutely wonderful and it makes me sad that most tend to dismiss it due to some of it's more dated elements along with some (admittedly glaring) issues, but whatever, I guess that's life.

P.S: I could watch an entire movie based around Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, and Valerie Perrine's characters.

This is my dad's favorite film he even brought my mom to see it on their first date, 30 years later when this was on TV my mom admitted to all of us that it was a pretty shitty date because my dad was so transfixed by the movie he didn't pay any attention to her at all, what a nerd!!

A Movie so free of cynicism, so pure and yet so sophisticated, there's a reason this remains a landmark and an icon of cinema.

A sensibilidade na direção de Donner, aliado à poderosa interpretação de Christopher Reeve, tornam esse, um dos melhores filmes de super-heróis de todos tempos. Mesmo que 40 anos tenham se passado.

://// درسته که 1978 بوده و خیلی خفن بوده ولی یه چیزایی دیگه ربطی به تکنولوژی و علم و تاریخ ندارن

This movie is so charming. It's just about the least cynical movie I've ever seen.

It's a little long in the tooth, and the ending is very weak sauce, but its main characters and setpieces are so strong that I still had a great time watching it.

I still hate that ending but, otherwise, this movie still holds up beautifully. The extended cut looks great, thanks to stellar restoration work from Warner Bros., but it feels too bloated. This certainly won't be my go-to edition, unless I'm looking for the best A/V quality.

Enough time has passed since my last viewing of SUPERMAN so that I might view this film without any shred of nostalgia. I remembered nothing more than individual lines and images. I still love Christopher Reeve. The perfect Man of Steel visage. But the film felt, well, underbaked and overlong and perhaps too closely tied to the serio-comic roots. Cinematic out the ying yang, but far too simple for a movie of 2.5 hours. I still prefer this folksy simplicity to the cacophonous assault modern superhero cinema, however. Not that anyone wants to cater to my needs, but the genre should be looking back to its roots for inspiration rather than expanding rosters and adding more noise and nonsense. Don't just stop at SUPERMAN. Go back to stuff like FLASH GORDON and Mario Bava's DANGER: DIABOLIK. You can make superhero movies like these without the amplified silliness. Character not cacophony, dammit. I might put that on a bumper sticker.

margot kidder and christopher reeves are charming and the movie's a technical marvel but otherwise i found it a bit lacking (not to mention overlong)

An absolute classic! One of my favourite movies of all time...

Classic! None of the recent adaptation can surpass.