Completely disagree. End of story.
Hard to resist that argument! The original Superman was bland and campy. Richard Lester added personal touches into the sequel that a commercial hack like Donner would never have. Superman 2 fits perfectly into Lester’s recurring themes of anti-nostalgia and de-mythologizing heroism (finding out heroes weren’t as invulnerable or perfect as you thought they would be). It’s there in his two Beatles films, in Petulia, in Robin and Marian and certainly in Superman 2.