Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (TV Series) All Shook Up (1994) User Reviews

"All Shook Up"

[allmoviesfan · 7/10 · 12 February 2024]

In "All Shook Up", Lois & Clark has gone full "Deep Impact"!

According to the other reviews, this episode is a remake of one from "The Adventures of Superman". Can't comment on whether it is a good or a bad remake, considering I haven't seen the original, but "All Shook Up" was good.

There's an asteroid the size of Metropolis rocketing towards earth and the only way to break it up is for Superman to fly right at it. Which he valiantly does - well, partly anyway - but crashes back to earth with amnesia.

Lois, Perry, Jimmy and the others have to help him regain his memory....and the world still needs Superman, who is MIA, to break up the rest of the asteroid. And time is running out...

Richard Belzer, soon to be of 'Law & Order: SVU' fame, guest stars.

Stick to the original

[Scott351w2001 · 1/10 · 19 November 2007]

Truly terrible remake of "Panic in the Sky" from "The Adventures of Superman".The story, which concerns an asteroid heading toward Metropolis, is stretched out to an hour (from a half hour) and as a result, is incredibly padded, with scenes that are pointless and do nothing to advance the story, such as one when a co-worker of Kent goes to confession because she feels guilt over taking advantage of his amnesia in seducing him. The episode is very soap-opera like, with the asteroid as a back drop. In the original, the asteroid was the focal point of the story. Not here, however. Funny, I always thought that a remake was supposed to improve on the original. Wouldn't you think that at the time they made this the people involved might have watched what they produced and seen how bad it was? Or, did they think it was good, (in which case they should have been fired)Just goes to show that in this age of FX, its still all about the writing, acting and direction. Also, why did they change the title of the episode, and why does it not say, "based on Panic in the Sky", at the start of the episode? Do yourself a favor and watch the original instead with George Reeves, The real Superman!

Didn't the writers understand what a drama is?

[grizzledgeezer · 1/10 · 8 February 2015]

I'd like to second the thoughts of Scott351.

"Panic in the Sky" was -- as I recall -- the only real drama during the run of "Adventures of Superman". That is, one of the characters had a serious problem that could not be resolved by "deus ex machina", coincidence, or anything other than directly confronting it. Superman has lost his memory of who he is, when the world desperately needs him.

This remake is so disrespectful of "Panic" that it verges on the obscene. In the original, Superman had no one to turn to, and had to figure out things on his own. In "All Shook Up", Ma and Pa Kent are present to help, and we are "treated" to an embarrassingly "comic" scene in which they push Clark off the edge of a loading dock (or something) to encourage him to fly. Such a scene has no place in a story that's about one of the major events in Superman's life.

One of the basic rules of writing is that, the worse the situation you put the hero in, the more-heroic he or she appears when surmounting the problem. Did it never occur to the writes to find some reason to strand the Kents where they couldn't quickly return to help?

Wretched, wretched, wretched.