10 Most Underwhelming Summer Movies Of All Time

It’s not every movie that benefits from a budget slash prior to production, but there’s no doubt that it helped Superman IV. If the filmmakers had been given more cash, they would’ve been able to complete certain key sequences and we would’ve received a 131 minute movie instead of the 90 minute picture that saw release.

One of the excised subplots involved Lex Luthor’s first attempt at creating a nemesis for the Man of Steel, and it’s just like the sequences that stayed in the film – crude, unfunny, and flat-out wrong. It was bad enough when Superman III invited us to laugh at (rather than with) the characters, but all this sequel invites the audience to do is roll its eyes every few minutes.

Deciding to rid the world of nuclear weapons, not-so-Superman declares himself a citizen of Earth and collects all the nukes in a net, but he’s reckoned without Nuclear Man, a mullet-haired bad actor he has to wrestle on some of the cheapest sets you’ve ever seen in a superhero film. Incidentally, Superman’s final line to Luthor is “See you in twenty” and thanks to this megabomb, it was nearly that long before anyone produced another Superman film.