Well, different strokes, I guess. I liked “Superman 2” (some scenes, most notably the “revenge” scene against that trucker, rubbed me the wrong way as being very un-Superman), but I never felt it never struck me as being the greatest of them all.
It set out to be un-Superman. Lester was a long-time American ex-patiot and wanted to do a quasi send up of Americana. Superman 3 was even more in this vein.