One of the first adaptations of Supes for the big screen, this was a serial production giving the caped Kryptonian episodeic adventures to delight week after week.
Atom Man vs. Superman
The second serial adventure features Superman taking on a whole new villain for the fate of the city.
Superman and the Mole Men
Another serial adventure, although this one has the distinction of being repurposed as the pilot for Superman's first television series.
After decades away, Supes is back on the silver screen. Staring Chistopher Reeve in the title roll, this movie proved to audiences that, yes, you really could see a man fly at the theater. And then it was followed by a troubled production that looks to take the work of the 1978 original and expand the adventure out bigger and better. Sadly, director Richard Donner left half-way in, and the sequel left a lot to be desired.
You know what Superman needs? A lighter, more comedic tone. No, actually, he doesn't, and this proves why that's a bad idea. It was then followed by an ill-fated fourth film has Superman taking on the threat of nuclear weapons. It's also terrible.
Widely considered one of the worst Superman movies, this film does one thing right: it ditches the third and fourth Christopher Reeve films. Sadly, it still tries to be a belated sequel to film we'd last seen twenty years early, staying beholden to material that hadn't really aged well in the interim.
After watching the first of the DCEU films to be released, this adaptation of Superman gets a lot right (and a few things wrong). After watching the film more than once, we present our review.
After the relative success of Man of Steel (a film that made good money but didn't seem to really have the backing of critics or fans), DC followed it up with a semi-sequel, semi-crossover, putting in the only character in comics arguably bigger than Superman: the Batman. Sadly, the results were just not good.
The production of Justice League was troubled, with original director Zack Snyder leaving part way in (for family reasons) and Joss Wheddon coming in to do extensive rewrites and re-edits. Although the final film is watchable, it's still not great in comparison to the filmic output of Marvel.
Picking up in the new, post-Flashpoint universe, we're introduced to all the members of the Justice League as they face off against a new, and very powerful, threat: Darkseid.
Introducing another new hero for the league, this movie gives us Arthur Curry, aka Aquaman, four years before a similar adventure would come out on the big screen.
Damien Wayne doesn't play well with others, a trait his father would like to see changed. So he's put on a team with other supepr-powered teens to see if they can work together for once. Probably not, though.
When a movie has a title like this, I think we all know what's coming. Based on the comic series of the same name, this film is only going to end one way, and it won't go well for our titular character.
All of Batman's villains are conspiring against him which leads Batman to think there might be an even bigger foe behind these machinations. If only he could figure out who...
We get a new version of Superman, once again starting our his career as a hero, as he takes on not only Lobo and Lex Luthor, but also the evil energy vampire, Parasite.
While assisting Superman defend Metropolis, the Flash gets sucked into the past (he thinks), forced to help a team of heroes all the way back in World War II.
Arriving years later than expected, Supergirl comes to Earth. She struggles, though, to find her own path on the planet, prompting Superman and Batman to send her to the future to train with the Legion of Super-heroes.
Many decades later, Bruce has retired as the Bat and James Gordon is primes to enter his own retirement from the force. But the rise of a new gang, the Mutants, has cast a dark edge across Gotham, and only one man, one bat man, can save the city one last time.
This Elseworlds tale (based on the comic of the same name) asks what would happen if Superman's ship had crashed into Mother Russia instead of the middle of Kansas.
Superman suffers a terrible loss and suddenly decides its time to clean up the world, and the Justice League is split over what to do in this gory superhero tale.
Johnathan Kent and Damien Wayne are not the best of friends, but the two will have to team up when a powerful alien being attempts to take over the planet.
The teen heronies have to battle a threat to their world from an ancient Kryptonian evil, and also the Teen Titans are here for some reason, in this weak crossover film.
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part One
The Justice League gets sucked into the world of Remnant where they work with the team of RWBY to try and figure out how they got there and why the world seems so wrong.
This Arrowverse-set series follows our titular couple as they move to Smallville to investigate corruption in the small town while they raise their two teenage boys.
A cute and fun animated series that follows the early days of Clark working as an intern at the Daily Planet, alongside other interns Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen.
Although the concept of a Superman that goes bad has been done before, this film at least takes the novel approach of going full-out horror with the concept.
In 2010, Dreamworks Animation came out with this parody film that, more than anything, really seems to want to poke fun at the classic Richard Donner Superman films from the 1970s.
See Also
Superman on Film: An overview of how Superman has evolved on the silver screen over the years.
Canceled DCEU Projects: With the death and rebirth of the DCEU actively going on, we take a look back at all the projects that could have been (and likely never will).