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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 29 Jul 1987, p. 21

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secret identity Clark Kent have been revamped to suit the 1980s motif. The Man of Steel will live on in D.C. comics for many more generations, though his powers are beginning to change. He is no longer completely invulnerable. Screenwise, Superman‘s even more vulnerable, in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, now at the Odeon Hyland. If Jaws, Rocky Balboa, Jason the Slasher (Friday the 13th), The Karate Kid, Police Academy, Beverly Hills Cop, Luke Skywalker and buildings in a single bound. And he‘s now half a century old. Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it‘s Chronicle Special Sat. and Sun LADIES® $19.97 MEN‘S $29.97 (3 pc.) JOGGING SUITS New sequel puts Superman on the cinematic comeback trail 25 MACDONNELL ST7. Movie began the craze with an allâ€"star cast and allâ€"star budget including the million dollar talâ€" ents of Marign Brando as Jorel (Superman‘s real father), Suzanâ€" nah York, as Kara, his mother, screenwriter Mario Puzo (The Godfather) and a brilliant music score from John Williams (E.T., Raiders of the Lost Ark, Witches of Eastwick). Superman: The Movie was rich in detail, with dazzling special effects and exâ€" quisite script format. Superman II, again under the capable supervision of Superman creator Alexander Salkind and director Richard Donner was a box office biggie, with the reguâ€" lar cast and the introduction of three deadly Phantom Zone foes. Starship Enterprise can get away with mfi why not Suâ€" *plus taxes and freight "PARK WAY 455 KING STREET NORTH, WATERLOO. PHONE 884â€"5110 PLUS SsUNROOF 5;. ©100 UNROOF o\ 2100 AÂ¥D ON ANY TEMPO BOUGHT DURING THIS JULY SALE SALES (WATERLOO) LImIiTED Movie review improvement over Superman I11, but far from the stamina and magic of 1 and II, despite its timely message. Christopher Reeve (who also coâ€"wrote the screenplay) reâ€" creates his famous role with looking every inch the Superhero he ought to be. In Superman IV, ‘the fighter for truth, justice and the American Way‘ makes a pledge to end the arms race, putmâ€"tamed t stcrre. : Riansertedbtihirrre. emabai and Richard Pryor as the badâ€" dies, taking over the world through Pryor‘s gormless comâ€" puter wiles. Superman went through a moral dilemma turnâ€" ing Supernasty, and writers threw a curve in the Lois Lane plot when Margot Kidder decided she‘d had enough as the Daily Planet‘s top scoop. Open Evenings Until 9 Fridays Until 6 delicious"). Sounds like a cereal plug. But Lacy Warfield is David Warfield‘s daughter. Daddy has bought the Daily Planet, and Daddy‘s Girl always gets what she wants. And no amount of Planet editor Perry White‘s Great Caesar Ghosts will thwart either Warfield‘s intention, as the Daily Planet is hideously temporarily transformed to a sensationalistic rag. Doubleâ€"dating takes on a new dimension when Clark, Lacy, Lois and Superman decide toâ€" make an awkward evening of it, the heroic Man of Steel making a Clark Kent is being wildly purâ€" sued by the lovely Lacy Warfield when a little boy writes to him Meanwhile . . . Superman‘s WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, XJLY 20, 1987 â€" PAGE 21 o Wist . NWAMMD TNAAA HE C3 se * Mark Rosenthal, Superman IV is timely because of the worid‘s ‘"fragile peace‘" that even Superâ€" man is powerless to alter, and timeless because of Superman‘s immortality in the hearts and minds of all ages on Earth. Supersweetheart gives her that famed Superkiss, that erases her memory of him. Or does it? How much longer can he keep pulling the cape over her eyes? Feminâ€" ists will not be amused. Directed male intuitions. Superman‘s and Lois‘ remance is rehashed and rekindled and still "jealous of the whole world" . If Superman is 50, Lois is 100. Margot Kidder looks very much the senior reporter, positively antique on the screen, overwrought and exhausted. After their token flight (again he lets the secret identity slip) Lois‘ 100â€"yard dash between dual feâ€"

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