Commonly known as "Turkish Superman" though it's title translates as "Superman Returns", which is funny both because it predates the American film of the same name by 27 years and because Superman is not returning in this film he is arriving. A notorious curiosity this is a non licenced Superman movie releassed in Turkey in 1979.
Filmed in one week without sound and later dubbed. This is one of the worst looking films I have ever seen, in terms of special effects, sets and cinemntography. It feels like portions of connective story tissue are just missing and the subtitles on the version I saw routinely garbeled the tense of words.
The acting is community theater level, portions of the score are directly stolen both from John Williams 'Superman' theme and from James Bond movies. The story of Superman fighting the Turkish mob who want to use "krypton stone" to turn lead into gold is just silly. All that being said this was a joy to watch at just 67 minutes.
Almost sublimely odd it easily kept my attention with its ridiculousness. This is the kind of movie that really messes with a traditional rating scale because it's glaringly bad, just awful but also loads of fun. I'm gonna give it *1/2 but it also warrants a thumbs up. This is the best disaster I've seen since 'Aline'.
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