ups.  Lesters technique added to the friction on the set caused by  Donners firing, with Margot Kidder (qv) particularly disliking  Lester as a director.) Paynters palette consisted of pastel colors  to suggest the color of comic books. The theatrical gray skies of  Paris, the rainbows of Niagara Falls and the Caribbean colors of St.  Lucia were thusly rendered with a comic book look. Whereas Unsworth  had given every new destination Superman visits seem like an awe  inspiring new discovery, Lester and Paynter showed Superman having  as easy access to far off lands, just as he did in the comics. One  minute hes in France, the next in Metropolis, and so on, without  any second thoughts. Unfortunately, Lesters disdain for Superman as  an American epic masked a certain disrespect for the enterprise, and  his comic book aesthetic backfired badly with the next sequel,  _Superman III (qv)_ (qv), which was routinely panned and  underperformed at the box office.