Superman IV: The Quest for Peace Rob While trying to rid the world of nuclear weapons, Superman has to take on Lex Luther and his diabolical nuclear guy. No Now I'm going to be honest with you folks, I never intended to review this movie. It's not that it isn't horrid, it's just that it's a real movie with a real budget, real actors, real styrofoam rocks, and real cheese. I thought I had conquered the really bad comic book movie genre with The Punisher, Captain America, Batman, and Supergirl. Yes, I didn't want to touch this one with a ten foot weiner dog (mostly because I never thought I'd watch it again), but something drives me on. I should, nay, I MUST review this simply because Ted Turner must love it so. I can't escape from it. TBS shows it, TNT loves it, I swear CNN probably puts it on when I'm not paying attention. I've seen it everywhere, even on Saturday Matinee on Channel 54. Never before has a movie followed me and haunted me so, and hopefully never again. I'm hoping that this, an official "Oh, the Humanity!" review, will stop this barrelling juggernaut which has pushed and prodded its way into my very being. This review is a message to the film to stop. I only hope for all of our sakes that it listens. Well, with all that said and done, what can I say about the movie. It's bad. Christopher Reeve is bad in it. Gene Hackman made me want to pull my fingernails out. Ducky (you know, John Cryer) almost caused me to kill a relative. Mariel Hemingway made me believe in the devil. Don't even make me think of the guy who played Nuclear Man. I often say that every movie was or is somebody's absolute-can't-believe-it-didn't-get-the-Oscar-favorite. I weep for those who have chosen this film. Clark Kent in a sweat suit ; Jon Cryer as the Surfer Dude Who Should've Never Existed (which is how he's credited, I think); Margot Kidder ; the nuclear guy who's probably been the heavy in a couple of episodes of Renegade by now (oh, and his outfit); the fifteen billion stereotypes the movie shuffles out constantly; the heavy breathing during the battle on the moon; the tornado effect nuke man does (Twister only dreamed of looking so realistic); the most important thing to watch, though, is the quasi-fascist Supes who decides to forget democracy or cultural change and get rid of all the world's nuclear weapons. He's got this great "Deutchland Uber Alles" theme while he does it too. Spooky. I always knew we should never have trusted a guy wearing a cape, tights, and a pair of red BVD's.