Little does Supersonic Man know that whiskey will not be his problem number one on this blue planet.
There are really too many Superman spin-offs – he is and was and always will be the first caped superhero. But Supersonic Man isn’t just a spin-off, it’s a unintwentional skit on any superhero movie ever made. Imagine “Superman IV – Quest for Peace” – the worst Christopher Reeve Superman-movie – but without Christopher Reeve, without special effects and with even less plot. The whole movie is befogged in a gloomy atmosphere of desparation and resignation. The only person you could call ‘actor’ in this spanish/italian low budget production is Cameron Mitchell as megalomaniac villain. Called Dr. Glitch or Glix or Gloox or Gulag. Hm…
Finally Dr. Gulash sends his deadliest weapon: A stack of silver-painted cardboard boxes!
No – suddenly I remember: Dr. Gulik! Hear him bragging: ‘Morality, what the hell is that? Good over evil? Morality is finished. It’s over! So naive.’ Yes, morality is terminated. NOW. Please depart on the right handside.
Even better:‘Shakespeare said death can be expensive, painful and ugly.’ Yes! I remember! It was in ‘Much Ado about Midsummer Superknights’, wasn’t it?
And didn’t Mark Twain say: ‘Red tights always look gay, even if you wear blue undertrousers over it.’?
Watch him! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it Superman? Does anyone give a damn?
Supersonic Man at the IMDB, the Wikipedia and at Amazon (VHS).
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