The weirdest thing about the '80s Superman movies is that they're comedies. This is unpleasant and wild against the background of the fact that the cartoons about him are relatively serious, and this applies to ancient cartoons from the 40s and the animated series of the 80s and 90s and painted full-length films of the 2010s. That is, before and after the movies there were always normal cartoons in which Superman was not portrayed as a fool, he got interesting, cruel, strong opponents, often monsters, the world was furnished beautifully, fantastically, with its own lore. And then suddenly, among this bright qualitative diversity as a tumor, there are 4 completely flawed funny films in which Superman fights... with humorists. Lex Luthor and his assistants and the mustachioed half-ass hacker look like villains fit for the Dalmatians, not the superman. In all 4 films, a huge number of jokes, and this is either falls and bumps, or the distraction of Clark himself. But film #3 surpassed all the other parts in this - its introduction is more suitable for the Benny Hill show, not for a superhero film, some completely left-wing people loitering around the city like drunks, flying on oncoming objects, on each other, hanging each other random pokes, accidentally smearing dirt on their faces ... Why not throw cakes?
Well, the answer to why everything is so ridiculous, we have. The villain is played by Richard Pryor, we don’t really know him (only if “Brewster Millions” and “Toy”), and in the West he is one of the most famous comedians. And the film in general was shot under him, i.e. it was not just an actor with a normal role, and he was creative control and turned the film into another show. It would be great if it was a comedy. But it was a Superman movie! And he had to fight not with another deity, but with a jester pea, and this is not even some canonical character, it is literally a nouneim, invented for this particular film.
What a character! A man who has not worked for anyone and had no talents all his life suddenly becomes a hacker out of the blue. He steals $85,000 from his company by laundering half a cent from employees’ salaries. Did the company have 17 million employees? And then in the same vein. Counterfeit kryptonite didn't kill Super, it turned him into a scourge. What a twist! Then, somehow, he split up and smacked himself. Damn, that's bad! The whole movie is one big movie. A misunderstanding.