Superman II
The Man of Steel meets his match!
Three Kryptonian criminals led by General Zod team up with Lex Luthor to conquer Earth, forcing a depowered Superman to regain his strength and stop them.
- Director
- Richard Lester
- Signature
- Wonder · Craft · Action
- Worldwide
- $216M
Who's in it
Cast
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Movie DNA
How Superman II actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
Story overview
What It's About
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Three Kryptonian criminals led by General Zod team up with Lex Luthor to conquer Earth, forcing a depowered Superman to regain his strength and stop them.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Superman II returned 4.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $54M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $216M
- Release date
- Dec 4, 1980
- Runtime
- 2h 7m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
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